(Although participants would miss Justin’s act…) It concludes with a 90 minute food pairing featuring specific Lakefront beers which complement their chef’s selection of local and national cheese, meat, fruit, chocolate and coffee. The brewery also offers a weekly 90-minute technical tour geared toward any home brewer or beer drinking aficionado led by one of their experts. What followed was an old rendition of the “Happy Days” theme played on Justin’s cassette player while Janet and the other volunteer went through the bottling routine. “Laverne and Shirley” at the bottling machine He asked for two volunteers and Janet raised her hand. The final part of the tour was viewing the bottling machine, which was an opportunity for Justin to work in a bit about Laverne and Shirley, the situation comedy legends from Happy Days (aired from 1976 to 1983) who lived and worked in Milwaukee. Of course, with his comedic wit, Justin placed special emphasis on the kegging function and exactly what was meant by the term “Bunghole.” We stopped strategically to see different brewery equipment which, of course, also provided the opportunity to sample another one of Lakefront’s good beers. He did a great job covering the history of the brewery and briefly got into the mechanics of making beer and Lakefront’s approach to brewing and being an important member of the community. Justin would appreciate the stand-up comic comparison although he would assert that he wouldn’t qualify based on the amount of time he spends in a prone position after drinking free beer. Justin was our tour guide – he could have been a stand-up comic given the humorous one-liners he worked into a nice educational briefing on the history of the brewery and some of its operations. But in 1998, the City was considering tearing down the old power plant to uphold a contract with a nearby apartment complex unless a local business was interested in the location.” It was later sold to the City to house Milwaukee’s Forestry Department. In 1908, Lakefront Brewery’s current building housed the Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company’s coal-fired power plant. “…….the City of Milwaukee had a building to sell. Justin, our erstwhile tour guide in historic setting Janet said that she would not tip me so we sat at the bar and our friendly bartender, John, poured the draft we split: Evidently they don’t have an equivalent to Oregon’s OLCC (Liquor Control) because at Pourman’s you could also pour your own beer if you sat in one of the booths. It has great old photos and impressive woodwork for the bar and tables and the top of the bar is filled with pennies. The second bar in which we did have a beer was Pourman’s which is in a 125-year-old building and opened in 2012. Located on the corner of Water Street and Juneau Avenue, we are close to campus and the beat of everything that is happening nearby.” It was so crowded and with two other options next door, we passed on having a beer. With an entirely remodeled interior and soon to be exterior, BarNone attracts an attractive young college crowd. Water Street that were jammed with people enjoying the weekend.īarNone is a very small bar which advertises, “Slip into the tightest hole in Milwaukee.” According to its website, “It opened for business October 30, 2009. Since we were on foot, we dropped into several nearby bars all on the same block of N. We “Sought Asylum” for dinner with a good view of the river at the Ale Asylum River House, where we each enjoyed a great burger and one of their own beers – the Velveteen Habit-India Pale Ale, (7.5% ABV) and the Demento-Session Pale Ale (4.7% ABV). The Milwaukee Brewers were in town that weekend and the city was just rocking. (I checked and one of units in a newer condo building ranged from $175,000 to $1.1 million for the penthouse!) Without hesitation, she responded, “$300 million,” which resulted in no additional questions and her sticking to the prepared script. Janet asked her the average market price of a condo in one of the buildings lining the river. Our tour guide on the boat was a young graduate student from the University of Wisconsin campus near the city who read a script. A view overlooking the river for a cool $300 million….!
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