Wisconsin cheese and beer tours: Wine tasting for real men (and women)

by Brent Butler Wisconsin's state motto may be "Forward," but for anyone serious about cheese and beer it might just as easily be "Upward."
At least as far as personal caloric intake is concerned.
When waves of Germans immigrated to the state in the 19th century due to religious persecution in Europe, centuries of brewing traditions met favorable Midwest geography. For more than a century, mega-breweries like Pabst, Blatz, Schlitz and Miller made Milwaukee ?the beer capital of the world."
Today, only Miller remains of the large domestics (Pabst, the last to leave, pulled out in 1996), but dozens of independent microbreweries have emerged in their place and have kept Wisconsin at the forefront of the craft-brew revolution.
Wisconsin is also the top cheese-producing state in the country, churning out almost 1.18 billion kilos annually. read more

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