After seeing Chicago our expectations for cities were high, Milwaukee is much smaller than Chicago so we weren’t as moved by the sites. Although, if you’re big into beer then Milwaukee is the place for you, it was like the Mecca in the 50’s and 60’s. It is also known as Brew City, the four major brewers in the country at the time were all based out of Milwaukee. Baseball fans might put it together now, the Milwaukee Brewers. The only remaining giant still there is Miller. Seeing as how beer is the city’s heritage we had to take a tour of the Miller brewery. The tour was actually pretty cool, we walked through the whole process from producing, to bottling, to shipping. We even saw a room with 500,000 cases of beer in it, probably more than you’ve ever seen in your life, and it’s not like they store it there either, turnover is one day, that means the facility produces 500,000 cases a day. More fun facts: the Milwaukee plant’s production is distributed to only 10 Midwest states, 40% of it going to one city in particular…Chicago. Anyway, we took the tour, tasted some beers and took some pictures. From there we cruised downtown to check out the Art Museum which we didn’t actually go in, but the building was pretty awesome. Last stop, can’t forget cheese, it still is Wisconsin after all. We went to the Cheese Mart and purchases some stuff. That was about it for our stay in Milwaukee.

- Carson

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