Black Husky Brewing is an intensely personal venture for the brewery’s founders, Tim and Toni Eichinger.
The husband-and-wife team launched Black Husky out of their rural Wisconsin cabin in 2010, with every beer a nod to a member of their former sled dog teams. The brewery has grown, and moved—a Milwaukee brewery and taproom opened in August 2016—but Black Husky’s beers remain deeply rooted in a brewing philosophy that Tim Eichinger established as a homebrewer. Big ales with full flavors, they’re often heavy on the hops, because that’s how Tim and Toni like to drink them. “We’re honest with ourselves, loyal to each other, and we brew good products,” Tim Eichinger says. “People don’t have to like everything I do, and if they don’t, there are always other beers they can try. I could make something less [forward], but I wouldn’t feel like I was being honest with people. […] I have to brew something Toni and I believe in, because if we don’t believe in it, we can’t ask you to drink it.”
Catch a fresh one
1. Tim Eichinger first discovered good beer when he and Toni were living in a log cabin in northern Wisconsin, surrounded by trees, sled dogs, and not much else. “It was about getting away, and figuring out who you are,” Eichinger recalls. Back then, he mostly drank Old Style—until he came across a six-pack of Bell’s Two Hearted. “It completely changed how I felt about beer,” Eichinger says. “I’d had hoppy beers in the past, but nothing with that type of aroma, the flavors, the malt profile. It completely took away the bitterness that was in IPA up to that point.”
2. Go crazy
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