A Book Signing, Beer, a Brewery, and a Daguerreotype

Tonight there is an event at Brocach starting at 7 wherein authors Jim Draeger and Mark Speltz will be signing their new book Bottoms Up: A Toast to Wisconsin's Historic Bars & Breweries. I am going to try to sneak into the invite-only event beforehand at 5. Wish me luck.

3 Sheeps Brewing of Sheboygan looks to be ramping up for bottling as they've got a couple labels now. I've never had their beer but it is on tap around Madison.




The Milwaukee Brewing Company has a new label as well. It's for Sasquash, a porter brewed with sweet potatoes and pumpkin. I believe this stuff has been on tap previously but that this is the first time it's been bottled.



A new brewery is slated to open soon up in Bangor - Kinky Kabin Brewing Company. The LaCrosse Tribune has the details:

The owner of the new Kinky Kabin Brewing Co. in Bangor hopes the microbrewery’s first batch of beer will be for sale in October in area bars and restaurants.

The first Apricot Naughty Wheat beer should be ready to drink about Oct. 1, owner Jeff Steidl said. “I’ve talked to a lot of (area) bars and restaurants about it,” he said in an interview at his microbrewery, in a cinder block former garage at 105 16th Ave. N. in Bangor. “They want to taste samples before they commit” to carrying the product.

Steidl plans to have samples ready for the bar and business owners by about Oct. 1, and hopes area beer drinkers will be able to get it on tap in early to mid-October. He also plans to buy bottling equipment and hopes bottles of his beer will be for sale in January.

Lastly, this photo is supposedly the earliest known photo of men drinking beer. So is there an older photo of women drinking beer?