We first brewed this a few years ago in honor of the tug “Palmer”. The Palmer was a fishing tug which sank Christmas Eve 2016. It was docked on the river behind our building, a place it had called home for many decades. Built in 1926, the Palmer was one of the first to respond and begin rescuing people from the lake when the SS Wisconsin steamboat sank on Oct. 29, 1929, off the shore of Kenosha.
The SS Wisconsin has been a popular scuba diving destination, one I first dove on in the 1970’s.
The beer is a Robust Porter with a touch of maple and vanilla – Maple to honor the wood which carried this ship through heavy seas for 90 years, vanilla to signify the snowy, icy grave it sank into that cold winter night when the heater within the boat failed and ice crushed its hull…

COMING SOON, HOPING FOR A SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER RE-RELEASE!