Travalon and I continue our pilgrimage to visit every tavern
and brewery featured in Bottoms Up.
(There will be a TV show based on the book showing tonight at 8:00 on PBS.)
Friday we went to the Cardinal Bar and had a lovely chat with the couple next
to us and the two bartenders. The Cardinal used to be open on Sundays with live
Latin jazz, but just a month ago this stopped because they were having to pay
the band more than they took in. The Cardinal spent Prohibition posing as a
restaurant.
Then Saturday we took a road trip out to Potosi to their historic brewery. Potosi is a very pretty town, and the beer is wonderful
there, but to our surprise two people came in and one ordered a Bud Light while
the other ordered a Miller Light. What?? There is a History of Beer museum
located in the brewery complex, and we enjoyed looking at century-old memorabilia and
watching decades-old TV ads. Then we drove to Platteville to another historic tavern with
jars full of candy behind the lovely wooden bar, adding to the old-fashioned
feel. We ended the night at Dot’s Tavern in the town of Bosco, down in the
basement of a house. The jukebox had lots of Elvis and Johnny Cash on it, and
the bartenders and regulars were highly entertaining. The author of Bottoms Up is right – every tavern in
this book is a pleasure to visit!
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