Fearful Symmetries

Seen yesterday, 25 June 2025: Just in time for the summer solstice. Uff da! We're still 3 months out from Oktoberfest and horny deer run...

Back in the summer Sprecher Brewery released Festbier, a…um…festbier, I guess. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time Milwauke...

Unless something goes horribly wrong, this will be my final Festbier review of the year, the omega of Märzen analyses, if you will. Yes, Okt...

I guess my previous post won't quite be my last review of a Wisconsin Oktoberfest. The Pecatonica Beer Company is apparently domic...

Today will be my terminal tasting of Oktoberfests from Wisconsin breweries. By and large this year's crop has been disappointing. Words ...

I am taking a break from native Oktoberfests because it was getting to be dolorous and drinking beer shouldn't be that way. Quaffing a...

I am getting to the point where I cannot drink anymore Oktoberfests. It has nothing to do with them being seasonal biers because they are ta...

Good ol' Potosi . Whenever I hear the name, I think of how a friend of mine still holds it against me that I unwittingly drank his las...

From Green Bay we now head southwest to Lake Louie Brewing . Hypothesis: Tom Porter and the gang out in Arena brew a tasty Dortmunder Ex...

OK, Green Bay. You may not draw the attention that various breweries here in the southern part of the state do as I hypothesized previousl...

I've not quaffed a whole lot of brews by Green Bay's Hinterland Brewery and have only reviewed a trio of them. They've been ...

The 2016 Oktoberfest season rolls on today with O'so up in Plover. I remember when O'so first hit store shelves in Madison and ...

Poking around the Tyranena website I see that they no longer offer Stone Teepee Pale Ale. That's too bad because that label used to m...

It is now September so I feel more comfortable drinking Oktoberfests than I do when they appear on stores shelves in July. While singles ...

You know it's July when American Oktoberfests hit store shelves. I managed to refrain from buying any until late August this year beca...

I thought that I was done with Oktoberfests back in October but I've been dragged back into the fray... Avery Brewing Company began back...

I've been a fan of Chicago's 5 Rabbit Cerveceria for a while now and have sought out their beers on visits to Chicago over the pa...

Chicago's Metropolitan Brewing began distributing here in Wisconsin this past spring which means I can enjoy their beers more often i...

Another Oktoberfest review and today’s victim, er, exemplar comes from Bull Falls Brewery in Wausau. A newcomer to the Madison market, th...

I spent some time over the weekend at Stalzy's Deli's Oktoberfest celebration which featured an abundance of both domestic and im...