Drink Brew City Week is actually 11 days of beer

Milwaukee doesn’t slow down in the summer. That’s an unwritten rule that the city’s brewers take to heart for Drink Brew City Week, an 11-day series of events celebrating craft beer brewed here.

The week opens July 26 with a Drink Brew City Collaboration Pub Crawl in Riverwest.

The crawl takes you to Lakefront, Company, Bavarian Bierhaus, Gathering Place, Eagle Park and Good City to try collaboration brews from the breweries. Two shuttle buses run a loop among the breweries. It’s free. Live entertainment at most of the venues is also free.

Look to the Drink Brew City Week site on Facebook for updates on events.

There’s more.

July 27:

Keg Killer: A Series of Pub Crawls. Begins at 7 p.m. This is a chance to explore Milwaukee’s best beer neighborhoods — among them the Third Ward, Bay View and Brady St. $20 per person. The crawl begins with a stop at a bar. Each participant will purchase a wristband at the beginning of the event and be able to drink from the event kegs. As kegs are emptied at each of the four bars on the each neighborhood crawl, it’s carried to the next bar with the same result. The night ends at a brewery in the neighborhood, for instance, Eagle Park Brewing for the Brady Street crawl.

July 28:

MKE Brewfest kicks off for the ninth year at 1600 N. McKinley Drive, in McKinley Park, and plenty of Milwaukee breweries are represented.

July 29:

Wiffle Ball Tournament at 12:30 p.m. The Milwaukee Craft Brewery League turns into a one-day wiffle-ball league with slots for 15 teams at Hart Park in Wauwatosa. Team entry is $30. Of course there will be beer. People can just show up.

July 30:

Experts talk about what it takes to start a brewery in a program called “Risk, Reward and Red Tape” held at Explorium Brewpub, 5300 S. 76th St. The program begins at 6:30 p.m. and includes an educational program with industry experts and moderated by The Crafter Space followed by a questionand-answer session. Tickets are $30 and available at startingabrewery.brownpaper tickets.com.

July 31:

Cribbage Tournament: Bavarian Bierhaus, 700 W. Lexington Blvd., Glendale, hosts teams of two in a cribbage tournament. Tournament begins at 6 p.m. There’s a $20 buy-in.

Aug. 1:

Home Brew Day at Humboldt Park Craft Beer Garden, 3000 S. Howell Ave. Brewers share secrets and techniques of brewing. Starting at 2 p.m., a rotating series of six or seven brewers from various breweries take shifts throughout the day teaching brewing and answering questions.

Aug. 2:

Drink Brew City Tap Takeovers: Milwaukee Craft Brewery League breweries are on all the taps at Rumpus Room, Sugar Maple and Hale House starting at 6 p.m. Brewery reps will be on hand to talk about the 20 taps at Sugar Maple, 441 E. Lincoln Ave., and several taps at Rumpus Room, 1030 N. Water St., and Hale House, 10539 W. Forest Home Ave., Hales Corners.

Aug. 3:

Eagle Park Brew and Food Fest: Eagle Park Brewing Co., 823 E. Hamilton St., hosts other Milwaukee Craft Brewery League breweries for a festival of food and beer. Tickets are $6 for food or beer. The fest begins at 6 p.m.

Aug. 4:

Wisconsin IPA Fest: Third Space Brewing hosts the annual Wisconsin’s Best IPA contest at the brewery, 1505 W. St. Paul. Admission is free. The Wisconsin IPA Fest begins runs from noon to 5 p.m. Beer samples are $2 for a 4ounce sample or grab a pint of other (non-IPA) beers from Third Space. There are a limited number of VIP tickets available that allow patrons to get in one hour earlier than the general public and are good for 10 IPA sample pour tickets. VIP tickets are available at Wisconsin IPA Fest on Eventbrite.com.

Aug. 5:

Project Terroir: 1 to 11 p.m. just outside D14 Brewery & Pub, 2273 S. Howell Ave., is the setting for the beer festival. Participating breweries in the Milwaukee Craft Brewery League use different equipment, techniques, water, yeast strains to make a beer with the same ingredients. Bands will set up for street party dancing. The entertainment is free. Beers will be available for sale. The beer fest portion is done at 7 p.m. Headliner band 5 Card Studs go on at 8 p.m.