The Beer Traveller

I was under the impression that I had found a new brewery to add to www.goodbeermaps.com. I was looking for Dells Brewing Co.; turns out they’re one in the same. Cool looking place constructed of large logs (i.e. log cabin) w/ lots of seating (for 600) & lots of dead animals on the wall.

Ben the Bartender served me well & even Beata the non-beer drinking waitress came over to chat. The beers were just ok/average. Ones that stick out were the Raspberry Creme Ale, that tasted like H2O’d down Kool-Aid. It was Likable; no beer flavor, but not too fruitty/sweet either. Jaime also makes an excellent Stout.

Jaime Martin is the brewer for Moosejaw & the first woman brewer that I’ve met. Ben called her to come down & meet me. She stopped down w/ her assistant Jonathon. We chatted for quite a while until she had to get back to work, but offered me a tour once I got done w/ my beers. She ended up finishing her day before I finished my beers & came down to have a beer w/ me.

She’s got an interesting history; went to school for brewing, but no-one would hire her. She work as an apprentice here, for free, for 5 months before her boss batted for her getting paid. After a while scrubbing floors & other shit labor, she finally worked her way up to brewmaster. She informed me that WI Dells has the most water parks/capita of anyplace in the world. She also said this was where the 1st water park started.

I also got the lowdown on making beer, beer types, hop situation, mergers/acquisitions, & many other things. Thanks for the chat Jaime & keep up the good work.