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Beer, Liquor & NA 2025

Blue Ox 2025 offers a wide variety of beverage options to quench your thirst.

 

*Blue Ox accepts both cash and credit card for beverage purchases at the Beer Tent and Lodge. Most food and hardgood vendors accept card but some only accept cash. Merch Tent accepts both cash and card payment. ATM will be available on-site.

*All tap beverages and mixed drinks must be served in a Blue Ox cup. Have a Blue Ox stainless steel pint? Bring it along. Past and present Blue Ox cups accepted for fills!  A 2025 Blue Ox steel pint will be available for purchase on-site at the Beer tent and Lodge.

*Some products only available in cans at the lodge.

 

2025 Beer Lineup

Oskar Blues 

  • Dale’s Pale Ale (American Pale Ale); Abv: 6.5% 
  • Dale’s Light Lager (Lager); Abv: 4.2%
  • Hazy Blues (Juicy IPA); Abv: 7% 
  • Dale’s Easy IPA (American IPA); Abv: 4.9%

Headflyer BrewingBlue Ox Baby (Blueberry Lemon Kettle Sour); Abv. 4.5% 

Third Space Happy Place (Midwest Pale Ale); Abv. 5.3% 

Badger State Brewing – Grassy Place (Hazy IPA); Abv. 6.7%

New Glarus BrewingSpotted Cow (Farmhouse Ale); Abv. 4.8%

Alaskan Brewing Company Amber (Alt-Style Ale); Abv. 5.3% 

Deschutes Brewery – Fresh Squeezed (IPA); Abv. 6.4%

Sierra Nevada – Hazy Little Thing (IPA); Abv. 6.7%

2025 Hard Seltzer & Hard Cider 

Untitled Art (Waunakee, WI)

  • Blood Orange Pomegranate; Abv. 5%
  • Prickly Pear Guava; Abv 5%
  • Electric Lemonade; Abv 5%

CiderBoys 

2025 Mixed Drinks & Wine

Mixed Drinks

  • Liquor: Fieldnotes Organic Vodka and Gin by La Crosse Distilling, George Dickel Bourbon, George Dickel Rye, and Rum.
  • Mixers: Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, Squirt, Tonic Water, Soda Water, Ginger Beer, Lemonade, Cranberry Juice, Ruby Red Grapefruit Juice, Sweet Lemon Iced Tea
  • Featured Cocktails: Fieldnotes Gin and Juice, Fieldnotes Vodka Lemonade, Moscow Mule, Vodka Cranberry, Dickel Bourbon Mule, Dickel Peach Lemonade, Dickel Lemonade, Dickel Iced Tea, Jimmy Luv’s Bloody Mary, Blue Ox Punch

 

Wollersheim Winery (Prairie Du Sac, WI)

  • Prairie Fume (semi-dry white)
  • Blushing Rose (semi-dry rose)
  • Scarlet Fume (semi-dry red)
  • White Riesling (semi-sweet)

2025 Non-Alcoholic Beer & Beverages 

*Food Vendors also serving delicious non-alcoholic beverages such as Italian Sodas, Boba Tea, Cold Brew, and Lemonade

Untitled Art (Waunakee, WI)

  • Non-Alcoholic Chela Con Limon Mexican Style Light Brew w/Lime
  • Non-Alcoholic Juicy IPA

 

Climbing Kites (Iowa)

Hemp-derived THC Infused Sparkling Water

  • Orange Mango (2.5mg THC per 12 oz can)
  • Mixed Berry (5mg THC per 12 oz can)
  • Peach Prickly Pear (5mg THC per 12 oz can)
  • Pineapple Passion Fruit (5mg THC per 12 oz can)

*Must be 21+ to consume

*All flavors available at the Climbing Kites activation booth in the festival bowl

*Orange Mango and Mixed Berry also available at the Blue Ox Lodge

 

Bear Fish Brew (Food Court)

  • Cold & Hot Brew
  • Latte
  • Italian Sodas
  • Flavored Lemonade
  • Cremosas
  • Variety of Boba Tea

Dairyland Curds (Food Court)

  • Soda
  • Water

Flips Mini Donuts (Food Court)

  • Lemonade
  • Flavored Lemonade
  • Hot Chocolate

Live Great Food (Food Court)

  • Sparkling Water
  • Gatorade
  • Water

Menomonie Market Co-op (Food Court)

  • Natural Sodas
  • Recovery drinks
  • Kombucha
  • Natural energy drinks
  • Juice

Sunshine Salad Farm (Food Court)

  • Herbally Infused Waters
  • Lemonade

Olson’s Ice Cream (Food Court)

  • Shake
  • Malt
  • Root Beer Float
  • Root Beer

Smokestream (Food Court)

  • Soda
  • Lemonade
  • Water

Super Heady Grilled Cheese

  • HoneyAde

 

VIEW ALL FOOD COURT VENDORS! 

Free Filtered Water Stations

Don’t forget to bring a reusable water bottle to Blue Ox. We have free filtered water stations available at multiple locations within the festival bowl.

*Yes: Empty bottles, empty hydration packs and factory sealed water bottles allowed in the festival bowl.

*No: Carry-in food and beverage/alcohol allowed in the festival bowl beyond water.