A Monroe Street craft beer bar has poured over 200,000 beers since it opened in December 2019.
Owner and certified Cicerone, like a wine sommelier but for beer, Garth Beyer said this is a conservative estimate for Garth’s Brew Bar, with data extrapolated from per-case and per-keg records kept since 2019.
“I didn’t expect to look up six and a half years later and find we’d poured and stocked more than 200,000 beers from 200-some breweries,” Beyer said in a statement. “But that’s what happens when you set out to help breweries thrive, to treat every beer like it has a story worth telling and when your regulars are as curious and adventurous as we are (strawberry pickle beer anyone?).”
Some of Garth’s stats:
- 200,000-plus — bar’s estimate of craft beers poured and stocked since opening
- 100,000-plus — individual cans and bottles hand-stocked in the cooler, one at a time
- 100,000-plus — pints poured on draft, across roughly 1,250 kegs
- 4,000-plus — different beers served to date
- 200-plus — breweries represented, from 30-plus states coast to coast
- 248 — times the bar has stocked Drekker Brewing of Fargo, N.D., its most-poured
brewery - 14 — new beers added in the bar, on average, every single week
- 18 — taps pouring at any time (16 rotating craft, plus two nitro taplines), beside a 95-plus can-and-bottle cooler
- No. 1 — named Best Craft Beer Bar in Wisconsin by CraftBeer.com three months after opening, in 2020
The bar at 1726 Monroe St. is run by Beyer and his wife Briana.
