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Local Wisconsin Breweries On Tap For Great American Beer Fest
This year's festival, which will highlight more than 900 breweries from all 50 states, is going virtual amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Scott Anderson is a jack-of-all-trades journalist who came up through the ranks of photojournalism nearly 20 years ago. In his career, he's documented relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina, photographed three U.S. presidents, and photographed more high school sporting events than he can remember.
He's won a Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism for his work documenting the parental generation gap and was honored at Patch for his work on the state's Opioid crisis.
Scott completed his undergraduate coursework at UW-Platteville and has a Master's Degree from UW-Madison in Journalism. He's a proud Wisconsinite who loves the outdoors. He loves his wife and two children.
You can reach him at scott.anderson@patch.com
This year's festival, which will highlight more than 900 breweries from all 50 states, is going virtual amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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