5 favorite Wisconsin breweries

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Message NobleSquirrel beers 3437 º places 209 º 11:31 Mon 11/3/2014 Originally posted by tennisjoel Originally posted by islay New Glarus ... I think their everyday six-packs are mediocre, and Spotted Cow may be the worst flagship of any highly respected craft brewery I’ll go against the grain here. While it doesn’t blow me away by any means, I occasionally enjoy a spotted cow. Moon Man is also one of my favorite pale ales on the planet. Two Women also is solid. For seasonals, Dancing Man and Black Top are both great, while the coffee stout is better than average. They make exceptional lagers, actually. Yokel is incredibly underrated, as is the Edel-Pils.
Message levifunk beers 12 º 12:20 Mon 11/3/2014 Originally posted by jlruthven Central Waters, O’so, New Glarus, Funk Factory (maybe I’m cheating), Tyranena
Message madvike beers 3357 º places 3 º 12:48 Mon 11/3/2014 New Glarus, Door County, Vintage, Ale Asylum, and somebody else. I don’t know...O’so? Ask me tomorrow and it’ll be different.

Message tennisjoel P beers 2230 º places 53 º 13:50 Mon 11/3/2014 Originally posted by NobleSquirrel Originally posted by tennisjoel Originally posted by islay New Glarus ... I think their everyday six-packs are mediocre, and Spotted Cow may be the worst flagship of any highly respected craft brewery I’ll go against the grain here. While it doesn’t blow me away by any means, I occasionally enjoy a spotted cow. Moon Man is also one of my favorite pale ales on the planet. Two Women also is solid. For seasonals, Dancing Man and Black Top are both great, while the coffee stout is better than average. They make exceptional lagers, actually. Yokel is incredibly underrated, as is the Edel-Pils. Agreed. While I don’t have Yokel rated that high, I absolutely loved the Bohemian Lager they used to make. I’m not sure I’ve ever been able to try the Edel-Pils.
Message jlruthven beers 612 º places 13 º 15:48 Mon 11/3/2014 Originally posted by tennisjoel Originally posted by islay New Glarus ... I think their everyday six-packs are mediocre, and Spotted Cow may be the worst flagship of any highly respected craft brewery I’ll go against the grain here. While it doesn’t blow me away by any means, I occasionally enjoy a spotted cow. Moon Man is also one of my favorite pale ales on the planet. Two Women also is solid. For seasonals, Dancing Man and Black Top are both great, while the coffee stout is better than average. This. Spotted Cow is a great beer; it’s just not a sour, a hop bomb, an adjunct imperial stout, it’s not barrel-aged, and it’s relatively clean and simple. Nothing wrong with that.
Message nuplastikk P beers 9837 º places 73 º 19:31 Mon 11/3/2014 />2. Dave’s BrewFarm -- If it were in Vermont, we’d be seeing a lot of ISOs for its beers. As it is, people outside of Wisconsin and Minnesota don’t know it exists. I’m sad to see it soon to go away.<br / Are you really comparing Dave’s brewfarm to Hill Farmstead? LOL.
Message islay beers 3622 º places 18 º 20:31 Mon 11/3/2014 Originally posted by nuplastikk />2. Dave’s BrewFarm -- If it were in Vermont, we’d be seeing a lot of ISOs for its beers. As it is, people outside of Wisconsin and Minnesota don’t know it exists. I’m sad to see it soon to go away.<br / Are you really comparing Dave’s brewfarm to Hill Farmstead? LOL. No, I meant more that, like some other Vermont breweries that emphasize their rural roots, it could piggyback on Hill Farmstead’s success and benefit from some of the current hype around various boundaries-pushing New England breweries, many of which I’m sure are, like Dave’s BrewFarm, legitimately quite good and interesting. I’m not looking to stoke controversy (although I managed to do it a bit with my New Glarus comment as well); it was just a complimentary aside. I do think Dave brews the most consistently interesting beers of any commercial brewer with whom I’m familiar in the Upper Midwest. That’s "most interesting," not "best."

Message Courtneyann33 23:06 Wed 1/14/2015 New Glarus (c’mon, Staghorn is great), Vintage Brewing (love the cask ales), Karben 4 (nightcall), One Barrel (care bear blood, and you gotta love their artwork), Mke Brewing (simple, but passionate, great tours (tour guides).
Message CanIHave4Beers P beers 4373 º places 76 º 00:14 Thu 1/15/2015 New Glarus is my favorite brewery so, yeah they top the list for me. I do like Central Waters most of the time. Once upon a time I was paying a lot more attention to the whole Wisconsin beer scene, but these days I’m so out of the loop I don’t really know what’s good and from whom. You can count me as real bummed out about the downslide for Capital, there was a time when I really dug them a lot.