By Bobby Tanzilo Senior Editor/Writer Published Jul 22, 2021 at 1:59 PM

Sprecher Brewery is as beloved for its craft soda as for its beer and Sprecher Root Beer is the Glendale-based company's top seller.

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But now, it'd brewed some of  its signature recipe root beer to salute the 2021 NBA Champion Milwaukee Bucks.

Deertown Root Beer has label art that root-root-roots (beer) for the home team: your Milwaukee Bucks!

The limited edition soda is available in six-pack bottles for $24.40.

Deertown Root Beer in available now in the Sprecher gift shop at 701 W. Glendale Ave. and online now.

Bobby Tanzilo Senior Editor/Writer

Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.

He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.

With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.

He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.

In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.

He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.