beverages
Milwaukee is home to the Milwaukee Brewers - both the baseball team and numerous breweries. Until Pabst closed its Milwaukee brewery and began contracting out its production during the late 1990s Milwaukee was the brewing capital of the nation. Although only one major brewer Miller remains in the city, it's brewing heritage lives on in the large number of micro-breweries and brewpubs it has to offer. Some more famous "small" breweries in Wisconsin include Point located in the college town of Stevens Point, City formerly G Heileman, New Glarus, Berghoff, Leinenkugels in Chippewa Falls, Riverwest and Sprecher both from Milwaukee, the latter also makes many fine sodas. Many restaurants and bars have their own local breweries inside the facility such that patrons can see the tanks as they eat.
Grays Brewing is well know for its sodas also using real grain sugar rather than the fine, processed sugar used almost everywhere else in all American food which gives the flavor a unique and outstanding flavor. Gray's makes primarily fruit-flavored sodas and reuses not recycles its bottles, so bring 'em back.
Point Brewing is now offering various sodas, including rootbeer, diet rootbeer, cream and other flavors. The tour of the brewery is said to be quite fun and extensive and concerts are held in the summer Rock the Brewery.
Sprecher Brewing also is well known, and is gaining recognition nationwide, for its sodas, particularly its root beer and unique labels such as Orange Dream, Raven Red, etc. A Root Beer or Orange Dream float with vanilla Frozen Custard is about the best beverage one can find. Tours are held Fridays and Saturdays all year-round, and everyday during the busy summer season. The cost of the tour is $4 for adults and $2 for those under 21. The price is well worth it, however, considering that the tour includes plenty of social time with unlimited samples of their sodas, and up to 4 samples of their beer.
alcohol drinking age
The drinking age in Wisconsin is 21. However, persons under 21 and over 16 who are with a parent, legal guardian, or spouse if the spouse is 21 or over may, at the discretion of the establishment, be sold and allowed to drink alcohol beverages. (http://legis.wisconsin.go...)