It's Miller Time!!! Welcome to Milwaukee!

Good Evening Blog "Aficionados!

Here we are in beer (and not only) paradise...

We left Chicago, IL at a decent time (11AM, totally relaxed! LOL) to get on the interstate to Milwaukee, WI.

Traffic was a real mess, we first go stuck bumper to bumper for 21 miles of road construction (with NO men working as always), and then we got stuck in another traffic jam with very slow traffic for another 8 to 10 miles because of the line of cars who wanted to get in one of those "Six Flags" amusement parks! I must admit that the roller coasters really really looked attractive, as I remembered last year how much fun I had with my friends from Italy at Disney World Orlando and Universal Studios Orlando.

We got to Milwaukee at about 1.40PM, the GPS was already programmed with the address for the "Lakefront Brewing Co.". The brewery has a very nice deal going on. They offer tours for $6 which include 4 tokens (for four 8oz beer samples) and one of their pint glasses to get at the end of the tour! The brewery is very small, but they make really good tasting beer. The tour and the plant was nothing compared to Anheiser-Busch and Budweiser, but hey, the beer was excellent, and the lady giving the tour was very nice, so, thumbs up for Lakefront Brewery.

We then stopped at a Subway to get a foot long sandwich, spicy Italian, my favourite (and then you wonder why I'm gaining weight! LOL), in order to get ready for the next brewery tour, at Miller Brewing Co.

Miller Brewing Co. is for beer fanatics like me, like Wrigley Field, or Fenway Park are for baseballs fans. It was great to get there, we had more beer (how come?!?! LOL), and we had another nice tour of the plant, this time comparable to Budweiser in New Hampshire.

The impression I got of Milwaukee, WI is that of a city who's going through a major face lift. I haven't got a chance to walk around though, so I might be wrong. Lakefront Brewery was for example in a new developed neighborhood, several new condo buildings popping up, good sign, or maybe not! LOL

We decided to leave Milwaukee, and get back on the road, and as a result, I'm writing you right now from Madison, WI, the State Capitol!

We went out to dinner at a Brew Pub called "The Great Dane" which is also, other than a restaurant, guess what...yes, you're right a brewing company!

The great dane produces 3,000 barrels a year, which actually places it among the top five brewpubs in the country. It was a great experience, food was very good (try the half a pound TEXARCANA burger or the Lemon Pepper Crazy Fingers), and they had 11 different beers on tap (Draught beers).

Tomorrow looks like it's going to be another busy day.

We're looking forward to visiting the "Henry Vilas Zoo" here in Madison, move west to "House On The Rocks" in Spring Green, WI, and then if there's more time, get to Austin, MN to see another one of those odd things, "SPAM City" and "SPAM Museum".

Anyone would care for a SPAM Cheesecake?!?! YUCK!

Good night internauts,

Nico