Things to Do in Wisconsin: New Glarus Brewing Company

We've done a few more things on this list, but I keep forgetting to post about them. So here's one: we went to a brewery.

I don't like a lot of beers, but I do have a fondness for Spotted Cow, which they make at the New Glarus Brewing Company, not far from Madison.

We unwittingly went on the day that they were having the grand opening of their new "Hilltop Facility," which disappointed us because we wanted the good ol' fashioned tour. But we went up to the hilltop and found quite the party. There was a band and everything.

Also, the facility itself is surprisingly beautiful.



See?


And here's Neal in front of a fountain!

Since there was a party, there were no guided tours (or maybe there were and we just couldn't find them). But there were samples and souvenir glasses for surprisingly reasonable prices. (Six dollars for a really nice pint glass? That's good even without beer inside it.)

So we wandered around looking at stuff.

(The person posing held the glass of the person holding the camera; we didn't each get two.)

Anyway, it was fairly enjoyable, but there would be more than enough left to see--not just at the brewery but in the town, which is apparently "America's Little Switzerland"--to justify going again someday.