Here are two ways to celebrate Fred Usinger Day with free brats in the Milwaukee area

Jessica Rodriguez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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The Milwaukee area is celebrating Fred Usinger Day with free brats.

The Bavarian Bierhaus, at 700 W. Lexington Blvd. in Glendale, is giving away free bratwursts from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday during its Fred Usinger Day celebration.

There will also be live polka music and a keg-tapping ceremony at 6 p.m.

The Old German Beer Hall, 1009 N. Martin Luther King Drive, will celebrate Friday with an all-day event from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Free Usinger brats — one per person — will be given out while supplies last.

Fritz Usinger, Fred Usinger's great-grandson and president of Usinger's, will tap a wooden keg of Hofbräu Munich beer at 6 p.m.

The day honors company founder Fred Usinger, who bought his employer's butcher shop and founded Usinger's in 1880.

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