Article: VANISHING WISCONSIN; Back-roads breweries; Off the beaten path, the history is so flavorful you can taste it

In Wisconsin's early days, many communities had at least one brewery of their own. Some of those buildings remain today, but not many are still operating as breweries.

Those that are definitely are worth the road trip.

Sand Creek Brewing Co. got its start in less historic surroundings. Jim Wiesender and Cory Schroeder, a couple of young beer enthusiasts who wanted to build their own brewery, began the business in the late 1990s in a farm building and semi-trailer in Downing.

By 2004, Sand Creek had grown so much that the company decided to buy Pioneer Brewing Co., which had been operating in the Oderbolz Brewery in Black River Falls.

The Oderbolz family built the brewery in 1856 and operated ...

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