If you’re looking for a unique way to celebrate 414 Day, check out Indeed Brewing Company’s “Jell-O, Milwaukee,” event at its Walker's Point taproom, 530 S. 2nd St., Sunday. April 14.
In addition to Brew City-themed trivia, hosted by Beer Pass, starting at 4 p.m., and food from El Pastor food truck, Indeed will offer “Jell-O, Milwaukee” fruit-infused beer flights.
The beers are available all day long, from 11 a.m. until 10 p.m.
The flights include four variations on Indeed’s Walker’s Point-brewed Milwaukee flagship American lager, Hello, Milwaukee: Lime, Orange, Blue Raspberry and Cherry.
The infusions, I’m told, are made with both real fruit and juice. The brew team cuts up the fruit and zests the peels by hand and then the beer rests on the fruits for two weeks.
This is not the first time Indeed has done this, either.
For last year’s 414 Day, Indeed released kegs of small batch Hello, Milwaukee infusions with whole coffee beans (called "Wake Up, Milwaukee"), orange juice and orange zest ("Brass Monkey Beermosa"), dried chile de árbol and cinnamon ("Milwaukee Hot Pepper”), and red berries tea, lime juice, and lime zest ("Hello Hibiscus Lime").
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.
