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Article: VANISHING WISCONSIN; Back-roads breweries; Off the beaten path, the history is so flavorful you can taste it
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- March 23, 2008
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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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