Layman Brewing celebrates its fifth anniversary this weekend with a beer garden bash at its West Allis home, a vintage corner tavern at 6001 W. Madison St.
Layman – owned and operated by Sarah Warran and her husband Kyle Ida – was the second brewery of the craft era to open in West Allis and with Westallion gone, it is now the oldest in town.
If you haven’t been there yet, now is the perfect opportunity as the brewery will host an Oktoberfest-style party in its future Beer Garden (currently known as its parking lot) from 2 until 8 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 6.
There will be a full bar, Layman’s house beer, snacks and $3 cups of Leinie’s Original while supplies last.
As the day progresses, expect a 5 p.m. pig roast that can be enjoyed to the dulcet tones of the Happy Shotski Polka Combo.
For more on the event, check out the Facebook event page.
For more on Layman, visit laymanbrewing.com.
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. A fifth collects Urban Spelunking articles about breweries and maltsters.
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 been heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
