The Great Baseball Road Trip has been chugging along for about 24 hours now, and so far there has been nary a bit of baseball. There have, however, been plenty of other signature moments. We wandered over to some sort of downtown mall with Diddy yesterday after getting into town because he wanted to buy his dad some sort of candy treat. In this mall was a decidedly excellent T-shirt shop. It had the standard fare of shirts, many of which were Milwaukee-themed (and therefore beer-themed. Seriously). But in the back, in a bin marked 1-$5, 3-$10 or 10-$20 (as opposed to the regularly priced shirts which were roughly $19 apiece), we found that shirt you see in the picture. Yes, if you are willing to buy in bulk (we bought three shirts, including that one), you can get a Green Bay 4ever shirt for a couple bucks. That made us smile. When Brett Favre signs with the Vikings, that shirt will be like a brick made of gold and irony.

Advantage, Milwaukee: Spotted Cow is available everywhere. We enjoyed some during a great meal of — what else — brats, Italian sausages and various salads at Diddy’s parents’ house. We might not have had that third one had we known the Oreo tort would follow. That’s a layer of crushed Oreo, a layer of vanilla ice cream, a layer of hot fudge, a layer of whipped cream and then another layer of crushed Oreo, if you’re scoring at home.

A trip to a couple of Milwaukee’s 9.2 million bars followed. We played some shuffleboard. We learned that some people call Minneapolis “Stinky-crapolis.” (Zing! Joke’s on us, we suppose). All in all: a nice warmup day. Today: a repentant stop by the hotel fitness room, a trip to the Milwaukee Art Museum, a Lakefront Brewery Tour (hopefully) and, of course, Game 1 of Twins vs. Brewers.

Question: Brewery tours — overrated? And what’s the best one out there?

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