Sprecher Root Beer
Usinger’s Famous Sausage
Harley-Davidson Rivets
Milwaukee Art Museum Flipcube
- Although it’s well-known for its beers, hometown favorite Sprecher Brewery also makes an array of non-alcoholic drinks such as root beer, cream and orange sodas, ginger ale, cola and cherry cola, all of which are caffeine-free. Four-packs also make a great goodie-bag stuffer, and Sprecher can customize the bottles’ labels. www.sprecherbrewery.com
Usinger’s Famous Sausage
- Milwaukee just wouldn’t be Milwaukee without sausage—witness the sausage races that take place at Miller Park, where Polish faces off against Chorizo, Bratwurst and Hot Dog in a sprint to the finish. In business since 1880, Usinger’s Famous Sausage makes a variety of summer sausages: salami, pepperoni, thueringer, landjaeger and even a beef salami packaged to look like a bottle of Pabst Blue Ribbon. Gift boxes are also available. www.usinger.com
Harley-Davidson Rivets
- Visitors may quickly eat the sausage and drink the root beer, so planners looking for a more permanent commemoration of their gathering can go to the Harley-Davidson Museum. Here, visitors can order and customize their own oversize three-inch or six-inch rivets that are then permanently installed in steel walls and plazas on the Museum’s grounds. www.harley-davidson.com
Milwaukee Art Museum Flipcube
- This custom flipcube features nine photographs of the Santiago Calatrava addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum. Like an architecture buff’s Rubik’s Cube, the images can be flipped around, leaving the “flipper” the challenge of moving them back to make the images complete. The flipcube lists for $9 for non-members and $8.10 for members. www.mam.org/store