August 23, 2012

We lazed around camp this morning and took showers then went on the Pabst Mansion tour.  In the 1890s Pabst Brewing Company was the world's largest brewer of lager beer.  After Frederic Pabst died his family sold the mansion to the Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee.  The mansion was occupied by Archbishops, priests and nuns from 1910 to 1975 at which time it was sold to Wisconsin Heritages, Inc.  This saved it from being demolished to build a parking garage.  It is being slowly restored.  No pictures were allowed inside the mansion.

We went to Water Street Brewery where Jim had a beer.  Then we drove to Discount Liquor and bought a case of New Glarus beer.  We got six bottles of the Cherry and six bottles of the Raspberry.  Then we drove to Glendale for the Sprecher Brewery tour.  This was the first microbrewery in Wisconsin.  Although they make about 20 different beers, 70% of their sales are root beer.   

We found four geocaches today.  One of them was across the street from Sprecher.  We drove back to the Casita and I fixed dinner and we watched some TV.

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