After collaborating on a pair of beers with Marquette students, two Marquette alumni founders of local craft breweries are teaming up on their own for a new brew.
Broken Bat Brewery’s Tim Pauly and Gathering Place Brewing’s Joe Yeado have brewed a langer called Ring Out Ahoya that will be released in early November to celebrate the start of the college basketball season.
Pauly and Yeado worked with the student-run venture called Blue & Gold Brewing to brew ‘77 Golden Ale in 2023 and The Beer Can Cream Ale in 2024. Although the alumni wanted to keep going, Blue & Gold decided not to continue doing beers, so Pauly and Yeado did it on their own.
The lager is brewed with malt from Chilton’s Briess Malting.
The name is the same as MU’s fight song. And because Marquette draws many students from Illinois, the locally distributed beer will also be available at some accounts in the Chicago area.
“Having built Blue & Gold Brewing Co. from the ground up over the last 2+ years was nothing short of a career highlight,” said Pauly, a 2010 MU graduate. “The two student cohorts that we worked with blew away expectations, the hours and effort put into the projects were tremendous, and the results over the last 2 years were nothing short of spectacular - highlighted by the support of our incredible community.
“Joe and I are proud to continue the momentum with this perfect Game Day beer, brewed by alumni – for alumni. Ring Out Ahoya!”
“We really enjoyed working with students and helping create beers that resonated with the alumni community,” added 2007 grad Yeado.
“We showed there is a demand for this product and I’m excited to continue working with Tim to share a great beer with other alumni and supporters.”
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.
