Marketplace - Oct. 14, 2009
From Wisconsin with love: Local foods make great gifts
For the most part, buying local means shopping for ourselves and our families at businesses based in Wisconsin, but it's also a commitment to keep in mind when sending gifts for a birthday, an anniversary or the holidays. Here's a list of places to buy edible gifts from the Dairy State.
Tags: kallas honey, wisconsinmade.com, alterra coffee, anodyne coffee, wollersheim winery, cedar creek winery, usinger's, mars' cheese castle, sprecher

Summerfest Guide - July 5, 2008
Summerfest: 5 things I miss, 6 improvements I dig
There are a few things I miss at Summerfest. Like John Kruth, for example.
Tags: Summerfest, Sprecher, Lakefront Brewery, cup stacking, Marcus Amphitheater

Dining - June 25, 2008
NYT.com says Sprecher Root Beer is "No. 1" in U.S.
Milwaukee will always be Brew City, and now it's also "Root Beer City" as The New York Times hails Milwaukee's own root beer as the best in the county.
Tags: Sprecher, root beer, Eric Asimov, Julia Moskin, NYT, New York Times, soda taste tests

Bars & Clubs - April 15, 2008
Sprecher celebrates spring
Celebrate the arrival spring in true Milwaukee fashion ... with beer! Sprecher Brewery worked hard to get its annual mai bock ready to go in time to welcome the return of the season of rebirth.
Tags: Sprecher, Mai Bock

Bars & Clubs - March 29, 2008
Sugar Maple sets down roots -- and 60 taps -- in "downtown" Bay View
A beer lover's oasis, when the Sugar Maple swings open its door on Wednesday, expect the bar to look like no other tavern in Milwaukee.
Tags: sugar maple, palm tavern, bruno johnson, mircobrew, sprecher, lakefront brewery, lulu, riviera maya, highbury, centraal