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Get the scoop on Door County food and drink scene, including breweries, restaurants and taverns. From Brussels to Washington Island, we’ve got the latest on what the peninsula’s chefs, bartenders, and artisans are cooking up for you in Door County.

  • Crate Restaurant Celebrates Second Anniversary with Prize Drawings

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    Crate Restaurant in Sturgeon Bay is celebrating its second anniversary with prizes in the last week of January. The sushi, seafood and steak restaurant on Third Avenue is offering a grand prize of a year of free dinners for two, and a second prize of two tickets to Dinner in the Dark Jan. 27. To […]

  • Cheers! Make Mine Mead

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    Oh my! I found in the magic fridge just now a bottle of Strawberry and Basil Mead, part of the Gastronomic Series from Crafted Artisan Meadery of Mogadore, Ohio. I think that’s right next to Mordor. This lovely mead comes on with the beautiful aroma of basil, and then you take your first taste and […]

  • Cherry Lanes Will Soon Be Door County’s First Arcade Bar

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    Erin Bosman said her husband has had “this pinball thing” for a long time. Now, his “thing” has become their business. Kevin and Erin Bosman bought the Cherry Lanes property on Fourth Avenue in Sturgeon Bay on Jan. 3, and immediately closed the business to remodel. They hope to re-open in March as Cherry Lanes […]

  • Cheers!: Decadent, Very; Depraved, Not At All

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    I couldn’t wait to take a big bite out of a beer called Depravity, not because of the name but because it is identified as an imperial peanut butter cup stout. Yup, you read that right. Each keg of this beer from the Renegade Brewing Co of Denver, Colo., contains a pound of Reese’s Peanut […]

  • Door County Brewing Co. Founders Launch Hacienda Beer Co.

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    On Feb. 3, 2018, Door County Brewing Company founders Danny McMahon (head brewer) and Ben McMahon (sales manager) as well as Allyce Mohs (operations manager) will launch a new brewing venture, Hacienda Beer Co. Located in Baileys Harbor, Hacienda will primarily focus on producing experimental hoppy ales and stouts as well as traditional and non-traditional […]

  • Cheers! Heaven and Earth In a Single Peaty Bottle

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    Recently I picked up two different beers from the Dutch brewer De Molen. One was produced in 2012 and is called Hemel & Aarde (Heaven & Earth), a 10 percent Imperial stout that suggests on the label that it be enjoyed within 25 years of its birth date. That would be 2037. I’ve never seen […]

  • Cheers!: The Year of the Blackberry

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    If I had to name my favorite beery trend of 2017 to date, I could do it in just one word – blackberries. “The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice.” Pacific Gas & Electric, “The Blackberry” (1970) I certainly can’t explain why blackberries never crossed my path before. Raspberries, sure. Strawberries, OK. Blueberries, even. […]

  • Cheers!: A Misheard Lyric and Missed Flavor Means Nothing in the Larger Scheme of Things

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    Holy snapping synapses, Batman! Thank you New Belgium Brewing for your Lips of Faith Series. I must admit the Tart Lychee did not call out to me at first, but when I finally picked up a bottle and had my first taste, I wished I had more. I wish I had it all…mwah..hah..hah! The tartness […]

  • Cheers!: Any (White) Port in a Storm

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    A blast of barnyard funk was unleashed like a mad genie when I thumbed the cork out of this bottle of Sour Opal, an American Wild Ale from the Barrelworks series by the Firestone Walker Brewing Co. of Buellton, Calif. Yowzer, this is one sour ale! It pours translucent gold and releases champagne-like bubbles from […]

  • Cheers!: Wowed by Roodness

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    Baffled by a seemingly unreadable label on a bomber bottle, I overrode my initial reaction to just walk away from it and pulled on a pair of cheaters to see if I could decipher the label. In a small, shaky script, I made out the name of the brewery – Borealis Fermentery of Knife River, […]

  • Cheers!: Do Black Patent Malts Really Reflect Up?

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    What stout lover could resist a 200th Anniversary Export Stout from Guinness, commemorating 200 years of Guinness in America? This stout is proudly brewed with the darkest of roast malts – black patent malt, an extreme-roasted malt that Brew Your Own magazine once tongue-in-cheekedly referred to as the “malt equivalent of the crazy uncle that […]

  • Place Holiday Baking Orders with Lola’s Restaurant and Bakery

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    Lola’s Restaurant and Bakery is now accepting orders for all holiday baking needs. Manuel Cifre, owner and baker, is encouraging residents of Door County to get their orders in soon, so as not to be left without their holiday goodies. “We want everyone to have a great holiday season,” Cifre said. “One of the ways […]

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    Cheers!: My Favorite Beer Rhymes With ‘Logger’

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    I sure do love a good lager. Yes, I know. Lager. It’s all around us. Anyone can do that. Everyone does. But I said good lager, which is a big leap from your run-of-the-mill American macro lager products. Well, show me a good craft lager and I will show you a great brewery. Somewhere along […]

  • Door 44 Winery’s Holiday Open House to Raise Money for Women’s Fund of Door County

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    Door 44 Winery is partnering with the Women’s Fund of Door County this holiday season to raise money to help build, enrich and nurture the lives of women and girls across Door County. Every year Door 44 Winery hosts a holiday open house to celebrate the holiday season. This year, owners Steve Johnson and Maria […]

  • Door County’s Great Home Bars

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    Like most children of the ’80s, I grew up with the television turned to Cheers! every Thursday night. It was one of the rare shows my parents watched that I actually liked and it’s probably why I always wanted to own my own bar as a kid. My parents never went to bars, and I […]

  • Rustic Bread on the Rise

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    Tucked discreetly on a back road in a beautiful country landscape in southern Door County is a studio. This particular studio belongs to metal artist Robert Anderson, humble and bubbling with many talents. Rob is a man who works with his hands, a man who carries passion into his work. Absorbed in process, breathing the […]

  • In Your Glass: Ginger, the Spice of Winter

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    In the wintertime spice cabinet, ginger reigns supreme. Whether it’s the fresh rhizome that lends a sharp, spicy touch to soups, stir fry and teas, or the subtle, ground version that gives a warm, spicy bite to gingersnap cookies and pumpkin pies, winter is the time for this knobby root to shine. Ginger does more […]

  • Cheers!: A Taste of Belgium from Old Duluth

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    My, how far we’ve come. When I left my hometown of Duluth, Minn., some decades ago, the city’s oldest and only surviving brewery, Fitger’s, had been closed for several years. Today, Duluth is something of a craft beer Mecca. If only my younger self had realized the beer evolution/revolution was even coming to faraway-from-everything Duluth, […]

  • United Methodist is Last Thanksgiving Meal Provider

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    When Leslie Youngsteadt heard that United Methodist Church in Sturgeon Bay would be serving the only community Thanksgiving dinner in the county this year due to a lack of volunteers to make the meals happen at other locations, she was immediately thankful for the volunteers who will make this 38th annual Thanksgiving meal. “We get […]

  • Tickets Going Fast for Neighbor to Neighbor’s Rib Fest

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    Lynell Pickering-Blucher works for a company that sells medical equipment, but she’s putting forth a great effort this week for an organization that loans much of the same equipment for free. She and her husband, Luther, just marinated about 20 slabs of ribs to charcoal-grill for the nearly sold-out Rib Fest cook-off Saturday to raise […]