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A Midwest Beer Tour to Cure Winter Blues

Fitger’s Brewhouse; Dale Kleinschmidt at the Lake Superior Brewery; the Thirsty Pagan in Superior, Wis., inside and out.
By GUSTAVE AXELSON
Published: February 4, 2011

ICICLES hung from the red awning of the South Shore Brewery in Ashland, Wis. The door opened and a frigid gust off Lake Superior blew a few more folks inside, their collars upturned and stocking hats pulled down past their eyebrows. At the bar, I turned back to the pint glass of midnight black stout with a foamy head. The beer’s bouquet tickled my nose — zingy peppermint, brisk as the wind off the lake. More