Ope! is no mistake
The latest Milwaukee-area brewery to send beer our way is Ope! Brewing Co. of West Allis.
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The latest Milwaukee-area brewery to send beer our way is Ope! Brewing Co. of West Allis.
Benno's opened in November 1980 at 73rd and National before a 1989 move to its permanent home at 74th and Greenfield.
Ope! Brewing Co. in West Allis has big plans for the future. From the name right down to the beers, it is raising the bar on Wisconsin wordplay.
"Ope" is no longer going to be just a Midwestern expression of surprise. This year, three buddies are planning to turn it into a new brewery in West Allis. John Onopa of Wauwatosa, Kyle Ciske of West Allis and Adam Anders of Brookfield are looking to open Ope! Brewing Co. in the former Perfect Screw Products Corporation building, 6751 W. National Ave. They're in the process of purchasing the space from the City of West Allis, they said, and hope to close on it by the end of March. "All of us found craft beer through drinking it, and all eventually started homebrewing and playing around...