Alpine Kiwanis Brat Days is a Rockford tradition that people look forward to every year. Here are the dates you should put down in your calendar to go out and eat your own weight in bratwursts. It's all for a very good cause, so show up hungry and bring friends.
It's just not summer without Alpine Kiwanis Brat Days taking the Rockford area by storm with lots of food, friends, and music -and all of it for a very good cause.
Years ago, a friend from out of town visiting Rockford during Alpine Kiwanis Brat Days asked me this question: So, Rockford's idea of a good time is hanging around a parking lot and eating bratwursts during the heat of the summer? Really?