Pub #11 -- New Glarus Brewing Company, New Glarus, Wisc., September 1

New Glarus Brewing is hugely popular, but most people outside of Wisconsin know nothing about it. Brewing in a small Swiss-heritage town south of Madison for 25 years, I first learned of them from my brother, who shared their Apple Ale with me.  But since they don't sell any beer outside of Wisconsin, few people elsewhere know much about them.  In the past few years they have built a massive new brewery and tasting room on the hills above New Glarus, so big and faux-ruins/Germanic village that it led C to refer to it as the Disneyland of Wisconsin "micro"-breweries. They specialize in sweet, fruity beers, which suits me just fine.  We were here with the Wert family as well.