Hello and happy Friday!
We are still riding the post-wedding high of the best weekend of our lives last week! And we even have some leftover Hitchin' Post. Cheers to everlasting love and great beer.
In this week's issue:
Bat trivia & Brewers baseball
A interesting Japanese inspired smoked porter
And The Great American Beer festival
[ 01 // THE FLIGHT ]
Our faves from this week
🧛 Go hang at Otium Brewing 's pint night were 1$ from every purchase goes to Bat Conservation International! Bat's are fang-tastic and not scary at all.
🦘 Step aside goat yoga, Roos & Brews is hopping into the scene with live kangaroos to help raise money for adults healing from hardship.
🏔️ Mile High City hosted the great American beer festival outside for the first time! With over 200 breweries hosting, the hoppibilities were endless.
🛹 Nothing gets beer people going more than a sweet collab. Dogtown skateboards will be at Common Space celebrating its 50th on Nov 14th. Ride responsibly.
🍜 Holy shittake mushrooms: a smoked porter, ramen- inspired crossover from Sketchbook X Wakayama Breweries. The winner of our interesting beer of the week.
[ 02 // THE PINT ]
Milwaukee knows baseball and brews
Sorry to the Dodgers fans out there, this one might sting a little!
Last night the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Dodgers 6-4 to finish a four-game NLCS sweep. They're headed to the World Series for the first time since 1982.
As we’ve followed them throughout the postseason, we’ve found ourselves curious about where the name “Brewers” came from (and a little jealous, that name is so sick). So this week we're raising a glass to Milwaukee and digging into the ties between baseball and beers in Brew City.
Turns out the name is actually older than the team. Local papers were calling Milwaukee baseball players the Brewers back in the 1880s. Then a minor league team used the name from 1902 to 1952.
In 1970, Bud Selig bought the bankrupt Seattle Pilots and moved them to Milwaukee about a week before Opening Day. He gave them the name from his childhood favorite team, a nod to the city's long ties to brewing.
And those ties go way back. German immigrants came to Milwaukee in the mid-1800s and brought their lager with them. Out of that came Pabst, Schlitz, Blatz and Miller. Schlitz even sold itself as "the beer that made Milwaukee famous."
When the Brewers arrived in 1970, the city was still home to three of the country's ten biggest breweries. Miller still brews there today, and the Brewers’ stadium has used its name for 20 years.
The craft beer scene has grown up around those giants. Lakefront, MobCraft and dozens of others help to keep the small craft scene thriving. If we were in town this week we’d be watching the Series and catching some of these sweet events:
Beer Trail Invitational at Havenwoods Taproom & Beer Garden: 30+ breweries pouring nearly 100 beers, with tickets from $50.
Mobtoberfest at MobCraft, the last Oktoberfest party of the season, complete with a sausage-sculpting contest (interested to see this one…)
Pumpkinfest at Sahale Ale Works in Grafton, with pumpkin beers and pumpkin carving all day.
Milwaukee has waited 44 years for a return to the World Series and even as A’s fans ourselves, we couldn’t be happier for their supporters. Here’s to hoping we get a great World Series, and that the Brew Crew can bring home their first ever title. Cheers to Brew City!