BEER’S BACK IN BREW CITY
ONE of the great pleasures of YouTube is comparing performances from different eras from singers to racehorses. I was reminded of this recently following a trip to Milwaukee when I called up two versions of the old standard - What Made Milwaukee Famous, by Rod Stewart and Jerry Lee Lewis. The Killer, as Lewis was dubbed in his heyday, nailed it. The pathos, the phrasing and the C&W feel. The “culprit” of the song is beer, of course, and a lot has changed in Brew City since Schlitz, the brand that coined the tagline - the Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous - ruled the roost.
Milwaukee is only a 90-minute drive from
