Do you like drinking? (Click here if you don’t.) Do you like drinking outside? Do you like drinking in places you wouldn’t normally expect a lot of (legal) drinking, like public parks? Then you’re in luck, because Milwaukee County’s ever-popular Traveling Beer Garden is returning for 2017.
Entering its fourth year, the roaming beer paradise will once again feature a Sprecher Brewery mobile kiosk setting up shop in 12 Milwaukee County parks from May 17 – September 4. Live music will be included Wednesdays through Saturdays from 5 – 8 p.m. According to a press release:
“Beer gardens on the 12-stop tour are staffed by Milwaukee County Parks employees and offer 10 on-tap Sprecher beers, served in souvenir glass pints and steins, with refills offered at reduced prices at any stop on the tour. In addition, flights of five beer samples are served. Other Sprecher selections include gluten-free beer, hard sodas, sodas, and root beer floats. Wine and snacks, including soft pretzels, are also available.”
Also returning will be the Beer Garden 5K Run, a series of four races through various parks, ending at a Traveling Beer Garden.
In 2016 along, Milwaukee County sold more than 100,000 Sprecher beers, 10,000 Sprecher sodas, and 3,000 root beer floats via the Traveling Beer Garden. That’s a lot of beer. Here’s the (weather-permitting) 2017 schedule, divided into two “tours”:
ROLL OUT THE BARREL TOUR
May 17 – June 11
Greenfield Park
June 14 – July 9
Grant Park
July 12 – August 6
Scout Lake Park
August 9 – September 4
Doctor’s Park
PASS ME A PINT TOUR
May 17 – 29
Juneau Park
May 31 – June 11
Kletzsch Park
June 14 – 25
Froemming Park
June 28 – July 9
McCarty Park
July 12 – 23
Zablocki Park
July 26 – August 6
Lake Park
August 4 – 6
Brown Deer Golf Course (pop-up at PHC Classic tournament)
August 9 – 20
Greene Park
August 23 – September 4
Bender Park
BEER GARDEN 5K RUN SERIES
May 18
Juneau Park
June 15
Froemming Park
July 6
Grant Park
August 3
Lake Park