The Annie Awards, essentially the Oscar's for animation, is having Sprecher beer and soda as it's official beverages this year. Check out the Annie Awards here.
Sprecher Hefe Weiss Voted one of the top 25 beers in America
We were rather surprised to discover that Men's Journal Magazine conducted a poll of best beers in America and our very own Hefe Weiss came up on the list. You can get the press release here.
Sprecher on Deal or No Deal
Sprecher Root Beer made a surprise appearance on Deal or No Deal back in November. The contestant was offered a lifetime's supply of Sprecher Root Beer. Apparently they did their research and knew that he loved Sprecher Root Beer. He turned down the deal though to go for the big bucks. Guess we can't blame him.
Here are some photos of Sprecher in the Deal or No Deal vault:
Just makes you wonder where Robert Palmer
went to.
Sprecher Brewery wins big at the 2006 L.A. County Fair
We decided to enter quite a few of our beers into the increasingly prestigious L.A. County Fair, and the judges responded with a resounding verdict in favor of the taste of Milwaukee's original micro-brewery. Here are the Medals:
Special Amber: Gold
Medal - Vienna Style Lager
Oktoberfest: Gold
Medal - German-Style Marzen/Oktoberfest
Dopplebock : Gold
Medal - Dopplebocks
Black Bavarian: Gold
Medal - Robust Porter
Irish Stout : Gold
Medal - Foreign(Export) Style Stout
Imperial Stout : Gold
Medal - Imperial Stout
Winter Brew : Silver
Medal - European-Style Dark/Munchnerdunkel
Sprecher Micro-Light: Silver
Medal - English Summer Ale
Piper's Scotch Ale : Silver
Medal - Scotch Ale
Mai Bock : Bronze
Medal - Bock Beers
Barleywine: Bronze
Medal - Barleywines
Food and Brew Matches from this year's State Fair
We had a great time this year at the Wisconsin State Fair. Several of Wisconsin's finest chefs used our stage at the Wisconsin pavilion to highlight a number of intriguing recipe's they have developed featuring Wisconsin products, including, of course, Sprecher beer and soda. Click on the following links to get those gourmet chef inspired recipes to try for yourself!
We were excited be featured on the Food Network (Time Warner Milwaukee channel 67) series "Road Tasted". Two brothers travel America highlighting small family run and artisanal makers of food and drink. A visit to Milwaukee wasn't complete without paying a visit to our humble brewery! Randy Sprecher brewed up a special homebrew batch of our root beer just for them! This very fun episode aired in September and again in November. Let the Food Network know you'd like to see it aired again! Tell 'em yourself!
On Sunday (7/23/06) we were featured on the program "BeerNutz"on the MoJo channel on INHD(err... High Definition tee-vee), in Milwaukee this is Time Warner channel 545. BeerNutz is a program whose hosts have been visiting the famous brewing towns of North America and profiling the breweries therein as well as giving viewers a taste of the area. We are, of course, on the Milwaukee episode. Not sure how, if or when the re-runs will be scheduled.
