When people talk about the history of Wisconsin beer, they mostly focus on iconic Milwaukee breweries like Schlitz, Pabst and Miller.
But for Robin Shepard, Madison and Dane County are front and center.
In a new book, the local beer aficionado focuses on the cultural progression of Madison’s beer history. He begins with Madison brewers of the past, Mathias Breckheimer and Peter Fauerbach, who acquired his brewery from Reinhart Frederick Sprecher. (Sprecher’s brewery was not related to Randal Sprecher of the current Sprecher Brewing Company in Glendale.)…