AMERICAN CRAFT BEER BASICS
BLUE COLLAR ROOTS — MILWAUKEE EDITION
BAY VIEW & MILWAUKEE
’84 FLASHBACK
WISCONSIN
100

This hop-forward style helped ignite the American craft beer boom of the 1990s.

What is an IPA?

100

This Milwaukee company, founded in 1884, became famous worldwide for heavy-duty power tools with a red logo.

What is Milwaukee Tool?

100

This historic Bay View park, home to Chill on the Hill, overlooks Lake Michigan.

What is Humboldt Park?

100

This purple superstar ruled 1984 with “When Doves Cry.”

Who is Prince?

100

This Wisconsin city sits at the confluence of the Fox and Wolf Rivers and is home to the EAA AirVenture fly-in.

What is Oshkosh?

200

This unit measures beer bitterness.

What are IBUs?

200

Before becoming a global manufacturer of mining and construction equipment, this Milwaukee company produced steam engines and tractors.

What is Allis-Chalmers?

200

This Milwaukee TV host of “Dialing for Dollars” later became a Wisconsin weatherman.

Who is John Hambleton?

200

Released in 1984, this film featured the line “I’ll be back.”

What is The Terminator?

200

This Wisconsin city was once nicknamed “The Cream City” — not because of dairy, but because of its light-colored brick.

What is Milwaukee?

300

This Chico, California brewery’s Pale Ale became a craft beer benchmark nationwide.

What is Sierra Nevada?

300

Founded in 1856, this Milwaukee company became known for water heaters, electric motors, and car frames.

What is A.O. Smith?

300

This Bay View street runs north–south and forms the heart of the neighborhood’s business district.

What is Kinnickinnic Avenue? (Accept KK.)

300

This Apple product debuted in a famous “1984” Super Bowl commercial.

What is the Macintosh?

300

Before Lambeau Field was built, the Green Bay Packers played many home games at this Milwaukee stadium.

What is County Stadium?

400

The four classic ingredients in beer are water, yeast, hops, and this grain.

What is barley?

400

Originally founded as a brewery in the 1800s, this company later became a world leader in industrial gears and couplings.

What is Falk Corporation?

400

This Milwaukee brewery gave us the slogan “The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous.”

What is Schlitz?

400

This Van Halen album shares its name with this year.

What is 1984?

400

This famous sandstone formation in Wisconsin Dells resembles a dog’s head and has been a popular stop on boat tours for over a century.

What is Stand Rock?

500

In blind tastings, most of what we perceive as “flavor” actually comes from this sense.

What is smell?

500

This labor union, represented by the initials IAM, represents machinists and aerospace workers.

What is the International Association of Machinists (and Aerospace Workers)?

500

Milwaukee’s nickname, referencing its 19th- and early 20th-century brewing dominance, is this two-word phrase.

What is Brew City?

500

This Cold War structure still stood in 1984 but fell five years later.

What is the Berlin Wall?

500

This Wisconsin-born architect designed Taliesin and the Guggenheim Museum.

Who is Frank Lloyd Wright?