Wisconsin's
Best Breweries and Brewpubs
Searching
for the Perfect Pint
Robin Shepard
Wisconsin's Best Breweries and
Brewpubs won the top book prize
from the North American Guild of Beer Writers announced at this
year's Great American Beer Festival in 2002.
This information-packed guidebook
introduces you to more than sixty breweries and brewpubs—from
the Shipwrecked Brew Pub in Egg Harbor, to smaller craft breweries
like Capital Brewery west of Madison, to the world-famous Miller
Brewing Company of Milwaukee. Robin Shepard includes descriptions
and his personal ratings of some 600 local beers, plus a taster's
chart you can use to record your own preferences.
For each brewpub
and brewery site you'll find:
- a description
and brief history, plus any "Don't miss" features
- names, comments,
and ratings for all their specialty beers
- notes on the
pub food, with recommendations
- suggestions
of other sites to see and activities in the local area
- information
about bottling and distribution
- availability
of tours, tastings, gift shops, mug clubs, and "growlers"
- address and
contact data, including Web sites and GPS coordinates!
Shepard also
introduces novices to the brewing process and a wide variety
of beer styles. And, you'll find a list of helpful books and
Web sites, as well as information on Wisconsin beer tastings
and festivals. As we say in Wisconsin, "So, have a couple
a two, three beers, hey?"
Let Robin be
your guide to tasting 600 local beers, from Snowshoe Ale to Rhinelander
Bock, from Whitewater Weizen to Point Special.
Robin
Shepard spent three years traveling Wisconsin in search of the perfect
pint. Formerly an award-winning journalist, he is assistant professor
of life sciences communication at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Robin Shepard,
has won the top book prize for Wisconsin's Best Breweries and
Brewpubs from the North American Guild of Beer Writers, announced
at the Great American Beer Festival in 2002.
If you
would like to contact Robin Shepard, his e-mail is: wort.hog@horizon.net
Please
e-mail Robin and tell him what you think of his book.
If you would
like to taste one of the chapters in Wisconsin's Best
Breweries and Brewpubs, click here.
For comments
and reviews of Robin's book, click
here.
For a developing
scrapbook of photos for events and beer tastings promoting Robin's
book, click here.
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September 2001
328 pp. 6 x 9
66 illus., 1 map
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