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  • Door County Brewing Company to Introduce Sideshow IPA this April

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    This April, after many months of recipe experimentation and refinement, Door County Brewing Company introduces Sideshow IPA to join its core lineup of year-round beers. Sideshow, which the brewery calls a “Door County Style IPA,” blends a traditional IPA recipe with the Belgian yeast strain unique to the brewery. Head Brewer Danny McMahon showcases both […]

  • Door County Homebrew Championship Returns to Beer Festival

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    The Door County Homebrew Championship is back for 2016 as part of the Door County Beer Festival. Homebrewers can enter beers in one of 12 categories to be judged by a panel of beer aficionados and experts. Each entry will be judged by at least one Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) judge or industry professional. […]

  • Cheers!: Hopping to Conclusions

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      Not being a hopaholic, I involuntarily shuddered upon pulling out from the magic fridge a bottle of Hopalicious from Ale Asylum of Madison. The bold declaration on the label did not reassure me: “Eleven separate additions of Cascade hops give this American pale ale its lush citrus aroma and bold hop flavor…” Hmmm, I […]

  • Cheers!: Monky Business

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    I love a good beer story. This one arrived in my email recently: “The story of Orval [Trappist Ale] begins around 1070 AD. “Princess Matilda, a Duchess of Burgundy, was passing through the forest in what is now Belgium with a group of travelers. They stopped to rest near a clear spring, and as Matilda […]

  • Door County Distillery’s Single-Malt Whisky Wins Gold at Tasting

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    Door County Distillery won a Double Gold medal for its Single Malt Whisky from The Fifty Best. The Fifty Best recently hosted its first ever American Single Malt Whisky Tasting, where contenders were evaluated for the distinguished “Best American Whisky” awards for 2016. Using professional criteria, The Fifty Best’s panel of judges blind-tasted the single […]

  • Bell’s 30th Anniversary Imperial Stout

    Cheers! Monkberry Moon Delight

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    Paul & Linda McCartney’s remastered, 180-gram version of Ram arrived in my PO box today. All day I looked forward to being home and spinning my new disc. Ram is the only recording attributed to the couple. It was released in 1971, a year after the breakup of McCartney’s former group. He refers to it […]

  • Learn How to Grow Hops at The Hop Garden

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    The Hop Garden will conduct two commercial hop-growing workshops at its seven-acre hop yard, five miles south of Belleville, Wis., or about 20 minutes south of the Beltline from Madison. Workshops will be led by Rich Joseph, co-owner of Joseph Staudt Hop’s and The Hop Garden. The Commercial Hop Growing Workshops are designed for the […]

  • Cheers!: Pale Ale, Chicago Style

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    A couple of Chicagoland beers made it into the magic fridge recently, courtesy of my colleague Myles Dannhausen, Jr., who was up from his Chicago digs for the recent pond hockey tourney in Baileys Harbor. He asked if he could bring along any beers that we can’t get here. I suggested a couple of Michigan […]

  • Touring Tavern History: Historical Society Plans Tavern Bus Tour

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    It is a Thursday morning and Trudy Herbst isn’t drinking but she is surrounded by tavern life in her Door County Historical Society (DCHS) office. She thumbs through Bottoms Up: A Toast to Wisconsin’s Historic Bars and Breweries by Jim Draeger and pulls up a photo of the Red Room’s beer prices back in 1950. […]

  • Visit Parallel 44’s Snow-Covered Vineyard for Frozen Tundra Wine Fest

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    Celebrate Wisconsin’s frozen terrain by attending Parallel 44’s 7th Annual Frozen Tundra Wine Fest, the largest outdoor wine fest in the state. This wintry outdoor event at Parallel 44 Winery is slated for the afternoon of Feb. 27, 12 – 6 pm. The winery is located outside of Kewaunee, between Green Bay and Door County. […]

  • Cheers!: Today’s Mighty Oak Is Yesterday’s Nut

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    After breaking my favorite tulip glass and cutting a finger as I foolishly tried to catch the falling, already-broken glass, I needed a pick me up. And there it was, sitting in a box on a window shelf on a cloudy and foggy 36-degree day – a bottle of Innis & Gunn limited edition Bourbon […]

  • Cheers!: Chugging Doppelbocks

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    Sometimes when I go to buy beer, I have no idea what I want. I’ll walk right past things that usually intrigue me, walk past the latest in the seemingly endless parade of new and increasingly outrageous craft beers, and suddenly, bam! Some mysterious part of my brain emphatically tells me, here is the beer […]

  • Bistro 42 to Close to Make Room for Door County Distillery

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    Door County Distillery is expanding to meet rising demand, and to make room for the expansion they are closing Bistro 42 restaurant at 5806 Hwy. 42 in Carlsville. Bistro 42 will be permanently closed after 10 years in business. The expansion will include a second still and barrel storage area with viewing windows, plus a […]

  • Door County Beer Festival Tickets Now On Sale

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    Tickets for Door County’s largest craft beer event of the year went on sale Feb. 1. The Door County Beer Festival returns to Baileys Harbor June 18 with more than 150 craft beers, live music, and local chefs. You’ll want to secure your spot in the tent early, as tickets are limited to just 1,200 […]

  • DC Brewing’s Pastoral Farmhouse Ale Now Made with Local Barley

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    Door County Brewing Company recently announced that their Pastoral Farmhouse Ale will be brewed with locally sourced barley and yeast. In addition they have re-labeled Pastoral in honor of Door County’s Belgian heritage. The familiar recipe will incorporate Door County-grown barley as well as a new blend of yeast strains derived from the peninsula, which […]

  • Cheers!: This Sheep Has Sharp Teeth

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    It was the coldest day of the year, to date, and I came home from work thirsty for a beer. I reached into the magic fridge and pulled out a bottle of summer ale that I must have missed last summer. Usually, one reach in and I’m satisfied, but a summer ale wasn’t going to […]

  • Cheers!: A Witty Denial of Winter

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    Many beers ago, somewhere around the turn of the century, a reader berated me for drinking and writing about a big, heavy winter warmer-type beer in the middle of summer. My thought then, as now, is that I will drink whatever I want when I please. I think that fellow was taking the idea of […]

  • New Door County Wine Fest Scheduled for June 25

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    The Door County Wine Trail and Egg Harbor Business Association are excited to announce a new event – the Door County Wine Fest on June 25. The event will be located at Harbor View Park in Egg Harbor and will feature wine tastings from all eight award-winning local wineries. There will also be wine pairings, […]

  • Cheers!: ESB, Barleywine and Eisbock, Oh My!

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    If you ever get up to Duluth, Minn., as I did recently, I highly recommend a stop at Fitger’s Brewhouse for a beer and bite to eat. The place was bustling when I hit it on a chilly, gray afternoon at the tail end of December and was shown into a nice little nook for […]

  • Cheers!: Is This the Holy Grail?

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      Once the brandy cake was in the oven on Christmas Eve, I turned my attention to a long anticipated bottle of Lindeman’s Faro Lambic. Where do I begin to sing the praises of this wonderfully inspiring beer? Will “Yum!” suffice? Here’s what the label says: “Lindeman’s Faro is a lambic made from local barley, […]