Root Beer Journal V: Sprecher, the Pride of the Badger State

Sprecher Brewery was founded in Milwaukee in 1985 by Randal Sprecher, who trained as an oceanographer but had to abandon that career because of an alarming tendency to seasickness. The brewery is now in the nearby town of Glendale. Sprecher makes a full line of

permanent, seasonal and specialty beers but sells more root beer than all its alcoholic beers …