Oshkosh Beer

The Oshkosh Brewing Company released its first Bock Beer 130 years ago. To commemorate the anniversary, Bare Bones Brewery will release a re...

It used to be called the West Side. But that name was lost 50 years ago. Also lost is the social life that thrived there. The heart of the o...

I recently made a short video with Mike McArthur from the Oshkosh Public Library about Robert Brand and Sons, an Oshkosh company that became...

Fond du Lac’s 88-year drought is coming to an end. This morning Lyle Hari of Fond du Lac Beer is brewing the first batch of commercial beer ...

The Oshkosh Brewing Company closed in 1971. The brewery quickly sold its brands – including Chief Oshkosh – to its neighbor across the stree...

At the turn of the century, Oshkosh was known everywhere as a city full of saloons and soaking in beer. Into the swamp stepped an itinerant ...

Dave Knuth of Knuth Brewing recently started a podcast. He asked me to sit in with him for this latest episode to talk about some local beer...

Bagnio | bäˌnyō 1) A brothel. 2) A bath or bathing house. 3) A prison or slave quarters in the Ottoman Empire. Big Ed Sanford’s Bagnio was n...

Oshkosh had more than 90 taverns in 1975. All but a few of them are gone. Some were condemned and knocked flat. Others went broke and were t...