First off, Merry Christmas.
Hopefully you’ve survived the holiday madness that, just for extra effect, included a blizzard.
A White Christmas it is, unlike 1982 when we played Jarts (the ones with real steel points) in my grandfather’s backyard in the Waukesha County village of Wales. The high that day hit 61 degrees. No one was impaled, despite the consumption of my Aunt Nodra’s brandy slush.
But this column isn’t about a freak weather event of 40 years ago or a frozen drink mixed with Graf’s 50/50 soda.
Rob Novak, coordinator at Old World Wisconsin’s new Brewing Experience and Brewhouse, transfers boiling hops into a strainer that drains into a copper trough called a coolship. Brewing at the new facility, which opened in June near Eagle, is done over a fire with beer fermented in wooden half-barrels.
Instead, it’s one that reflects on my travels around the state and beyond in 2022 and the stories discovered and told. Thankfully, I had and continue to have a team of talented photographers to help document them.
Eyes for talent
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