Beer Garden 'The Tap Yard' Proposed For Waukesha

WAUKESHA, WI—An outdoor beer garden is proposed for Waukesha.

"The Tap Yard" will be an outdoor beer garden featuring 36 taps of craft beer, a 40 foot container bar, and picnic tables, according to city documents.

The beer garden will feature live music, karaoke, trivia, and family fun days along the Shoppes at Fox River. The beer garden intends to be open May 5 until Oct. 31 with possible special usage on nice days in the winter.

A tent won't be used instead a container bar will be utilized instead. It would be positioned at the across from Hobby Lobby’s parking lot.

The garden will have exterior string lights that will cover the span from the container bar over the picnic tables and anchored by a pole in a whiskey filled concrete barrel. The surrounding exterior will have an exterior rope fencing surrounding the entire property, city documents said.

According to a letter from Nick Marking, managing member, he ran a similar beer garden last summer at 84South at 84th and Layton in Greenfield called The Lokal Beer Garden.

"It was a very successful summer venture at the popular and busy development at 84South, which is very similar to the Shoppes at Fox River. We were named 2nd best new bar in the 2020 Shepherd Express Awards given out yearly and we were only open for 5 months," Marking said.

The proposed hours are 4 p.m. The proposed hours are Wednesdays and Thursdays from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m.; Fridays 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.; Saturdays 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Sundays 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

According to city documents, organizers plan to have 10 employees with one manager on site at all times.

A Class B beer license permit was approved by the Ordinance and License Committee Monday night. The proposal is expected to go to the Plan Commission on March 24 for approval.