by Ripsaw Saloon Editorial Team | Jul 14, 2026 | Wisconsin Bars
We’ve read the same DNR press release three summers in a row now. ATV and UTV deaths are climbing. Riders aren’t wearing seatbelts. Almost nobody has a helmet on. The safety courses sit empty while the body count ticks up. And every year, we watch the same...
by Ripsaw Saloon Editorial Team | Jul 12, 2026 | Wisconsin Bars
TL;DR: The Wisconsin Friday fish fry started as a Catholic meat-abstinence practice and turned into a year-round statewide ritual. German, Polish, and Scandinavian immigrants built it. Prohibition kept it alive. Today, bars and supper clubs in every Wisconsin county...
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...
by Ripsaw Saloon Editorial Team | Jul 1, 2026 | Wisconsin Bars
Sources TTB — Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau Wisconsin drinks 37% of America’s brandy — and most of it lands in Old Fashioneds that clock 250+ calories. We’ve spent three years behind the bar at Ripsaw Saloon in Prentice, and here’s what... by Ripsaw Saloon Editorial Team | Jul 1, 2026 | Wisconsin Bars
Sources TTB — Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau Your grandmother cooked with beef tallow. Your cardiologist told you to stop. Now the cocktail world is bringing it back — and the liver science says something different than what you’ve been told. Quick...