{"id":231,"date":"2009-07-14T20:27:28","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T02:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/?p=231"},"modified":"2011-03-29T21:54:29","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T03:54:29","slug":"brewery-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"Brewery Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"rss\"<\/a>

You don’t have to know too much about the Brewery Creek Inn<\/a> in Mineral Point to figure out it’s the kind of place I would like.\u00a0 Namely:<\/p>\n

1) It’s in a restored 1854 warehouse.<\/p>\n

2) They use local ingredients as much as possible and buy as\u00a0few “prepared” foods as possible (as in they make own own ketchup and whatnot).<\/p>\n

3) Fried jalapeno cheese curds with raspberry sauce.<\/p>\n

4) To get there, all I have to do is walk downhill.<\/p>\n

The Brewery Creek Inn was the first place we ever ate at in Mineral Point.\u00a0 We weren’t living here yet, we had just come out for a weekend drive and we ended up having burgers here.\u00a0 When you see the place you can helped but be impressed, both inside and outside.\u00a0 Every time we eat there, Leslie remarks that she wants our basement to look like their dining room.\u00a0 No problem, I’ll just raise the\u00a0basement ceilings up\u00a0about 6 feet…<\/p>\n

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This picture of the dining area actually comes from our first trip to Mineral Point, we din’t get a good picture on our most recent visit.\u00a0 The first time we were here it was the off season, so there was no one around.\u00a0 In the summer the place is a lot more crowded.<\/p>\n

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If it’s your first time eating here, get the Brewery burger.\u00a0 It’s hands down the best thing on the menu. ” Hand pattied, locally raised black Angus,roasted garlic, bacon, Colby cheese, caramelized onions, sweet red onion and hydroponic tomatoes, lettuce, ketchup, Dijon mustard, and aioli”.\u00a0 Someone (Tony Bourdain?) once said that the sign of a truly great burger is the juice that runs down your arm when you eat it.\u00a0 This is that kind of burger.\u00a0 If you’re not a cow eater, the walnut burger is also delicious– as long as you don’t compare it directly to the\u00a0beef burger.<\/p>\n

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To wash down that burger, I suggest\u00a0a Shandy (half ale, half lemonade, sometimes with a splash of fruit juice).\u00a0 They also make their own beer (a rotating selection is available).\u00a0 I’d tell you a bit more about the beer but I’ve been told my review of Capital Island Wheat was a snoozer, so maybe I just don’t have what it takes…\u00a0plus Leslie has banned all further beer reviews until I come up with something more interesting to say.<\/p>\n

I love their pint glasses, by the way.\u00a0 The mug the badger is holding is transparent, so it looks like he’s drinking whatever you’re drinking.\u00a0 This way, you never drink alone.\u00a0 I think they must sell the glasses, because the people we bought our house from had a few.<\/p>\n

One last important note.\u00a0 The restaurant closes earlier (8:00 PM most nights, 8:30 PM Friday and Saturday) so they don’t disturb the guests in the rooms above.\u00a0 Along those same lines, this isn’t a bar; their beer and a handful of wines\u00a0are all they’ve got alcohol-wise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You don’t have to know too much about the Brewery Creek Inn in Mineral Point to figure out it’s the kind of place I would like.\u00a0 Namely: 1) It’s in a restored 1854 warehouse. 2) They use local ingredients as much as possible and buy as\u00a0few “prepared” foods as possible (as in they make own […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,8],"tags":[710,46,14,36],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driftless-area-towns","category-restaurants","tag-beer","tag-brewpub","tag-mineral-point","tag-restaurant","no-featured-image"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2829,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/2829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}