by Ripsaw Saloon Editorial Team | Jul 9, 2026 | Guides
Last updated: July 2026 By Ripsaw Saloon Staff | Prentice, Wisconsin Rye whiskey nearly died in America. By the early 2000s, there were maybe a handful of distilleries still making it, and most bar shelves collected dust where the rye bottles used to sit. Then...
by Ripsaw Saloon Editorial Team | Jul 2, 2026 | Guides
By the Ripsaw Saloon Bar Team | Last updated: July 2, 2026 | Sources: Ripsaw Saloon menu records, Wisconsin Department of Tourism seasonal data, Phillips Farmers Market schedule, 2024-2026 sales data from our POS system We changed our cocktail menu 11 times last year....
by Ripsaw Saloon Editorial Team | Jul 2, 2026 | Wisconsin Bars
Patio season in northern Wisconsin lasts about twenty weekends if you’re lucky. We count them. Every bar owner up here counts them, because those twenty weekends carry the whole summer. TLDR: Northwoods patio season runs roughly from Memorial Day through late...
by Ripsaw Saloon Editorial Team | Jul 2, 2026 | Wisconsin Bars
Wisconsin keeps showing up at the top of national bars-per-capita lists, and nobody up here is surprised. What does surprise people is how those numbers actually get counted, and why half the stats floating around Facebook are wrong. We run a bar in Prentice, so...
