The annual Sprecher Root Beer Bash, a free family-friendly event with live entertainment, food, games, free activities, giveaways, and, of course, Sprecher Root Beer floats, takes place Saturday, Aug. 2.
"The world’s largest Root Beer Float Festival" is slated for 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. at The Bavarian Bierhaus' Old Heidelberg Park Grounds, 700 W. Lexington Blvd., in Glendale.
In addition to the free Sprecher/Culver's root beer floats – distributed with the help of St. Francis Children's Center (to which you can make a donation) – there will be face painting, henna artists, balloon twisters, petting zoo, live music, bouncy houses, Vibez Creative Art Studio, carnival games and much more.
At 3 p.m., Bavarian Bierhaus will tap a barrel of Zwickel Festbier that it brewed in Glendale with the world’s oldest brewery, Freising, Germany’s Weihenstephan Brewery, founded in 1040. Read more about that here.
“This event brings together everything that makes summer in the North Shore special – community, great music, local flavor and family memories made over a Sprecher and Culvers Root Beer float,” said Becca Petrillo, president of Discover the North Shore.
“We’re proud to partner with Sprecher Brewery to give families a refreshing and unforgettable experience.”
For more information, visit discoverthenorthshoremke.com/sprecher-root-beer-bash.
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.
