Second Salem Brewing Company

About

We are a one-barrel nanobrewery located in Whitewater, Wisconsin. Our name comes from Whitewater's historic nickname. From around the turn of the century to the 1930s, locals referred to the town as "Second Salem" due to its reputation as a site of witches' gatherings at the Witchtower (the Starin Park water tower), strange murders, unearthly creatures in the lake, and other unexplained phenomena. South central Wisconsin is also the stomping grounds of the Beast of Bray Road, a werewolf-type creature that was sighted on numerous occasions in the early 1990s, and the Wild Man of La Grange, a strange character apprehended by local authorities in 1929. We are not sensationalizing these strange events, figures, and architecture. They are a part of our collective past: one that makes our town unique, and one that provides a rich variety of stories to translate into beer.