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Milwaukee and Green Bay Suggestions (Updated with Trip Review)
Posted on 9/27/18 at 10:33 am
Posted on 9/27/18 at 10:33 am
Headed to Lambeau for the bills packers game sunday (go bills!). Looking for suggestions for a Saturday afternoon and night in Milwaukee and Sunday morning in Green Bay.
Plan as of current is to fly into Chicago Saturday morning, drive to Milwaukee and spend the night, drive up to Green Bay and Lambeau Sunday morning, watch the bills win, then drive back to Chicago Sunday night.
Any suggestions on food, breweries, or bars are appreciated
Plan as of current is to fly into Chicago Saturday morning, drive to Milwaukee and spend the night, drive up to Green Bay and Lambeau Sunday morning, watch the bills win, then drive back to Chicago Sunday night.
Any suggestions on food, breweries, or bars are appreciated
This post was edited on 10/2/18 at 9:17 pm
Posted on 9/27/18 at 11:04 am to CuseTiger
quote:
go bills!
Bless your heart
Posted on 9/27/18 at 11:25 am to CuseTiger
Milwaukee: Lakefront brewery is a cool spot. Their Oktoberfest was amazing a couple of years ago. I still dream about it.
Pro tip: Don't jump into the river to cool off. They will throw you out.
Dinner at Mader's: Order the apple strudel when you sit down. It takes like an hour to make. It will be a long dinner, but its worth it. You MUST get the Reuben rolls.
Pro tip: Don't jump into the river to cool off. They will throw you out.
Dinner at Mader's: Order the apple strudel when you sit down. It takes like an hour to make. It will be a long dinner, but its worth it. You MUST get the Reuben rolls.
This post was edited on 9/27/18 at 11:34 am
Posted on 9/27/18 at 12:28 pm to CuseTiger
Just got back from Milwaukee. Hardly an expert, but I strongly recommend lunch at Bavette and drinks at either Bryant's (old school cocktail vibe) or Shaker's (historic cigar bar). We had dinner at Braise as well, which was very good.
Posted on 9/27/18 at 1:14 pm to CuseTiger
In Green Bay, Hinterland has a brand new brewing facility near their “Lambeauville” type area. Looks like it’s worth checking out.
Badger State Brewery was another nice spot we visited when LSU played up there a few years ago.
Badger State Brewery was another nice spot we visited when LSU played up there a few years ago.
Posted on 9/27/18 at 3:45 pm to CuseTiger
Uber taproom in MKE was really good. Nice beers and cheese curds from when I was there.
Posted on 9/27/18 at 4:48 pm to CuseTiger
Good beer bars: sugar maple, cafe benelux, cafe hollander, Romans, Burnhearts
Sobelman's for bloody marys
Eagle Park is my fav brewery. Pabst actually has a couple cool bars as well
Sobelman's for bloody marys
Eagle Park is my fav brewery. Pabst actually has a couple cool bars as well
Posted on 9/27/18 at 5:43 pm to CuseTiger
Stadium view is a fun bar in Green Bay
Posted on 9/27/18 at 10:12 pm to CuseTiger
Maxie’s in Milwaukee is really good.
Posted on 10/2/18 at 9:15 pm to dLSUm22
I owe y'all an update/ trip report after your suggestions and my trip completion
Myself and two buddies ended up flying in and out of Chicago O'hare for this trip. Little did I know that Milwaukee was only an hr 15 min drive from Ohare so we get into town by 12:15pm
We ended up staying at the Hyatt Place off Juneau ave right in the brewery district. I have to say that was a great location since it gave us a good starting point to explore the city and was within 5-15 min of all points we went to. This is the view looking up the street at the Pabst brewery
First up was the Pabst brewery and Jackson's. Jacksons was a brew pub set in the old Pabst brewery. One thing you'll realize in Wisconsin is every restaurant has cheese curds on the menu. We ended up getting an order and it was pretty good. Overall food was pretty good but we more just wanted to find a place to watch the syracuse clemson game...ugh
The beer also came in goblets
From there we wanted to keep the party going so we ended up at Lakefront brewery. The inside area was huge with a decent sized bar and a packed house. I think I got their IPA and one friend got the pumpkin ale or octoberfest, but they were both very good. We saw there was an outside area so we decided to try it despite it being about 50* . I could see it being nice during the summer
Next up we saw the brewers were in town so got tickets same day for $20/piece. Little did I know that they were playing to tie the cubs for 1st in their division. Every seat in that stadium had great views, no complaints about this stadium on my end.
We ended up leaving in the 6th since we were exhausted, only to find ourselves at the bills bar in Milwaukee. Steny's was on 2nd street and that stretch looked like the best area for bars. It was packed for everyone watching the brewers (go brew crew) but we still got good service and beer.
Overall, I'll say Milwaukee is a very similar city to Buffalo. They have the MLB and NBA while we have the NFL and NHL. There's both good bad areas in the city, but I didn't feel unsafe at any point. I'd go back and explore again for a weekend trip in a heartbeat, props to you Milwaukee
Sunday: Woke up and drove the hr and 45 minutes from Milwaukee to Green Bay. The area is mostly flat, similar to driving from Buffalo to Syracuse. Got up there and ended up finding a house with $15 parking 3 blocks from the stadium. We tailgated there for a bit before heading on in to the stadium.
Tailgating View
Once inside the stadium, we made our way to our seats.
Not a bad view in the stadium in my opinion. All the packers fans around us and that we interacted with were very friendly. They appreciated the bills service in beating the vikings the previous week. We then watched the bills get shutout by rodgers... I'm happy to have gone to Lambeau for the experience and would be glad to go back, Wisconsinites were very hospitable.
After the game was over, we drove 3 1/2 hrs in the rain through the construction back to a hotel by O'hare. We ended up at a panda express, going back to the hotel and crashing around 9pm before flying back Monday morning at 7am.
All in all, it was a great weekend trip. Wish I spent more time in Milwaukee, would highly recommend Lambeau and miller park, and would've loved to go to a bucks game.
Myself and two buddies ended up flying in and out of Chicago O'hare for this trip. Little did I know that Milwaukee was only an hr 15 min drive from Ohare so we get into town by 12:15pm
We ended up staying at the Hyatt Place off Juneau ave right in the brewery district. I have to say that was a great location since it gave us a good starting point to explore the city and was within 5-15 min of all points we went to. This is the view looking up the street at the Pabst brewery
First up was the Pabst brewery and Jackson's. Jacksons was a brew pub set in the old Pabst brewery. One thing you'll realize in Wisconsin is every restaurant has cheese curds on the menu. We ended up getting an order and it was pretty good. Overall food was pretty good but we more just wanted to find a place to watch the syracuse clemson game...ugh
The beer also came in goblets
From there we wanted to keep the party going so we ended up at Lakefront brewery. The inside area was huge with a decent sized bar and a packed house. I think I got their IPA and one friend got the pumpkin ale or octoberfest, but they were both very good. We saw there was an outside area so we decided to try it despite it being about 50* . I could see it being nice during the summer
Next up we saw the brewers were in town so got tickets same day for $20/piece. Little did I know that they were playing to tie the cubs for 1st in their division. Every seat in that stadium had great views, no complaints about this stadium on my end.
We ended up leaving in the 6th since we were exhausted, only to find ourselves at the bills bar in Milwaukee. Steny's was on 2nd street and that stretch looked like the best area for bars. It was packed for everyone watching the brewers (go brew crew) but we still got good service and beer.
Overall, I'll say Milwaukee is a very similar city to Buffalo. They have the MLB and NBA while we have the NFL and NHL. There's both good bad areas in the city, but I didn't feel unsafe at any point. I'd go back and explore again for a weekend trip in a heartbeat, props to you Milwaukee
Sunday: Woke up and drove the hr and 45 minutes from Milwaukee to Green Bay. The area is mostly flat, similar to driving from Buffalo to Syracuse. Got up there and ended up finding a house with $15 parking 3 blocks from the stadium. We tailgated there for a bit before heading on in to the stadium.
Tailgating View
Once inside the stadium, we made our way to our seats.
Not a bad view in the stadium in my opinion. All the packers fans around us and that we interacted with were very friendly. They appreciated the bills service in beating the vikings the previous week. We then watched the bills get shutout by rodgers... I'm happy to have gone to Lambeau for the experience and would be glad to go back, Wisconsinites were very hospitable.
After the game was over, we drove 3 1/2 hrs in the rain through the construction back to a hotel by O'hare. We ended up at a panda express, going back to the hotel and crashing around 9pm before flying back Monday morning at 7am.
All in all, it was a great weekend trip. Wish I spent more time in Milwaukee, would highly recommend Lambeau and miller park, and would've loved to go to a bucks game.
This post was edited on 10/2/18 at 9:32 pm
Posted on 10/3/18 at 7:58 am to CuseTiger
I really like Milwaukee. Plenty to eat/drink around Water Street, Third Ward, and Brady Street on the Lower East Side.
Posted on 10/3/18 at 8:53 am to hoopsgalore
It's also a great city for walking around too. Pretty underrated IMO
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