Bottoms Up: A Toast to Wisconsin's Historic Bars and Breweries

Fun and informative-Great guide to Wisconsin Bars&Breweries
This book is both fun and informative. It toasts 70 of Wisconsin's historic bars and breweries throughout the state that best represent some aspect of Wisconsin's great brewing heritage. The book is written by two historians and published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press. While its emphasis is clearly on bars/breweries having a unique or important historical aspect, it is also a modern travel guide as all 70 of these bars or breweries may be visited today. They are part of Wisconsin's living heritage. The research took over 2 and a half years to complete. There are pictures and stories, both historic and current, of each bar /brewerey explaining its unique contribution to Wisconsin's culture including many architectural aspects. The first seventy pages trace the history of brewing and drinking in Wisconsin from its early pioneer days, through the Prohibition years and up to modern times. This section is followed by the aforementioned descriptions of the chosen 70. Quite...

Bottoms Up rating
Fantastic book, well illustrated, discussing and displaying some of Wisconsin's most beautiful and interesting historic bars and breweries. Anything published by the Wisconsin State Historical Society is well researched and well written.

Bottoms Up, a top pick
It covers all the details as well as a broad outline of one of the significant Wisconsin icons. Well written too. I want to go to all these places.

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