Cherryland Brewing Company - Cherry Rail Lager

Cherry Rail, which was awarded a Silver Medal at the 1991 Great American Beer Festival, is a lager style beer produced with 100% real cherry juice. Cherry Rail is brewed with all two-row pale malts and is hopped once at the beginning of the boil and then again 20 minutes prior to the end of the boil with Cascade hops. Tom and Mark have experimented with many different recipes with respect to when they should add the cherry juice during the beer's production and found that it retains its original taste best when added during the beer's fermentation.

The Cherryland Brewing Company, founded in 1987 by Mark Feld and Tom Alberts, then two local homebrewers, is located in the heart a favorite midwestern vacation destination, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. The brewpub is actually a renovated distinctive railroad station. "Located amongst the scores of cherry orchards in Door County, it seemed only natural to produce a beer which is representative of our local heritage." Although Cherry Rail is by far the brewpubs most popular beer, they also produce Silver Rail (German Pilsener), Golden Rail (A Vienna-Style Amber), Cherryland Weiss (A Cherry flavored Wheat beer), Winter Porter, and Apple Bach (A seasonal, apple juice flavored mai bock). Tom and Mark have a limited distribution of their products in the midwest. Tours of the brewery are available and the brewpub serves excellent Italian and American cuisine.

For more information about the brewery and scheduled tours, call (414) 743-1945.