Are you planning to pick up some beer for your or someone else’s Super Bowl party? Then you should head out to Original Gravity for their pre-Super Bowl growler fill sale. The sale runs from 12pm to 6pm which is when they close today. You can have your growler filled for $1 off and if you are a club member it is $2 off. I expect that club member #001 will be there to refill his growler at some point. If you see him say hi because we can’t make it. I am planning on sharing a growler of 440 Pepper Smoker with some people that have never had it before. I want to show them how great craft beer can be. If they don’t like something is definitely wrong with them.
If you can’t make it today head out for their seasonal beer release on Thursday, February 11th at 6pm. The beer is called Bellywasher Scotch Ale. As soon as a description is available I’ll post it.
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This event has been cancelled due to lack of interest.
The Main Street Stable and Tavern in Blissfield is hosting a New Holland beer dinner on Saturday the 6th of February. Blissfield is obviously English for field of 
happiness and what could be more blissful than to have New Holland’s The Poet with a first class meal. It would be like having Baby Jesus fall a sleep on your lap.
Here are the event details from http://www.newhollandbrew.com/. I could find nothing on Main Street Stable and Tavern’s website so please phone ahead.
We are very excited to announce that our friends at The Main Street Stable and Tavern are putting on a New Holland beer dinner with a cocktail reception featuring our Artisan Spirits.
New Holland’s Beervangelist Fred Bueltmann and Spirited Advisor Rich Blair will be on hand to answer any questions you may have about our beer and spirits.
We will post the menu as soon as we get the details so keep checking back.
The price of the dinner is $45 per person including tax and gratuity. To make reservations contact The Main Street Stable at (517) 486-2141.
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I know most of you beer geeks have already seen the results of the Ratebeer 2010 Best Competition. But I am posting a link below to the Kalamabrew article about how great the Michigan brewing industry did this year.
Our host site, Monroe Evening News, has a forum called Monroe Talks. Someone once posted on there that “American beer is awful so I drink imports” (not the exact wording). This person was obviously talking out of their Anheuser. Times have changed. American beer is some of the best in the world and Michigan is one of the states that has helped turn that around.
How well did we do? For starter, six breweries are in the top 100 in the world! That is just a teaser. For the rest of the results you can access the whole article here.
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January 23, 2010 by jnaz
I received the flyer below about this Founders vs. Stone event happening at both Ashley’s Locations (Ann Arbor and Westland).
The Deets:
Tuesday Jan 26th Who’s Your Bastard Night/Founders vs. Stone
Join us for this epic battle and be sure to place your vote for the best Bastard in the business.
An event so BIG, we got both Ashley’s locations involved.
Founders Beers
Dirty Bastard
Backwoods Bastard
Flappy Sappy Bastard
(plus 8 other drafts and a firkin of Red’s Rye)
Stone Beers
Double Bastard
Arrogant Bastard
Oaked Arrogant Bastard
(plus 7 other Stone drafts and 3 bottles)
Fortunately, Michelle got an e-mail from Gary, at Rave, with more details about the Westland event. They seem to be burying the lead. They are going to have the Ken Schmidt / Maui / Stone Kona Coffee Macadamia Coconut Porter! This beer is very rare in Michigan. http://blog.stonebrew.com/?tag=coconut-porter
Here is the info from Gary’s e-mail:
Tuesday Jan 26th 7-? Who’s Your Bastard Night/Founders vs. Stone
Ashley’s/Westland
Founders:
Draft Hand of Doom: Imperial IPA aged in Oak/Whiskey Barrels 10.4%
Draft Double Trouble: Double IPA 9.4%
Draft Dirty Bastard: Scottish Syle Ale 8.3%
Bottle Red’s Rye
Bottle Centenial IPA
Stone:
Draft Vertical Epic 09/09/09: Belgian style porter with spices 8.5%
Draft Sublimely Self Righteous: Black IPA 8.7%
Draft Double Bastard: American strong ale IBU 100+ 10%
Draft Oaked Arrogant Bastard: Oaked American strong ale 7.2%
Bottle (Stone Collaboration) Kona Coffee, Macadamia Coconut Porter 8.5%
Bottle (Stone Collaboration) Juxtaposition Black Pilsner 10%
Note that both Ashley’s Locations do seem to be having an event but they seem to be a bit different in beer selection and start times. The first beer list seems to apply just to AA and has a start time of 5 PM. The second list seems to be just for Westland and starts at 7 PM.
It makes sense that the AA location would have more draft selections. I imagine the AA event will have all, or most, of the selections as Westland, but I’m grateful to have the extra detail from Gary about the Westland event (which is where I’ll likely be).
The flyer (seems to be mostly for AA):
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Tonight at Fort Street is their annual Festivus celebration. Here are the event details as told by Doug…
January 21, Fort Street Brewery’s Festivus.
The holiday for the rest of us! (also squirrel appreciation day.A full slate of events planned, beginning at 8ish p.m. Our Festivus food menu will actually kick off Tuesday night (more on that later). First, up at 8 p.m., we’ll tap the first of three new beers. It’s only fitting to kick everything off with “Festivus Ale”. I would call this sort of a brown ale made with killer bee honey. It’s so good, you might actually consider becoming a killer bee farmer! At the same time, we’ll also release “Opus Amor”. You might remember a couple of weeks ago when we released, “A Vow of Silence and Fury”. I mentioned that being part of a trilogy. “Opus” is a wheat wine style, made with 50% wheat. At 10% ABV, it’s actually the lightest of the three beers in the trilogy. Unlike the other two beers, it has a full body and a wonderful malt richness.
Following the release of those two beers, we’ll be hosting a promotional party for Don Q rum. We have regular, Lemon, Coconut, and Mojito flavors. That means free samples and low prices on drinks made with any of the flavors!
At about that same time, we’ll have the traditional Festivus pinata smashing. It’s a big pinata filled with all kinds of wonderful stuff!
At 9 p.m., we’ll have the first Feat of Strength. Bingo! No strength required, but eye hand coordination and reading skills, would be a plus.
Then at 10 p.m., it’s time for “Build a Beer Vol. 9″ aka “The 12 Ingredients of Christmas”! This is the beer made by drawing random ingredients from a hat. In spite of all the crazy ingredients, I think this may be the best “Build a Beer” yet!
Following the toast for “Build a Beer”, we’ll have our second Feat of Strength. Name That Tune! At 11, we’ll be playing “Beanbags for Beer”, to close out the days events.
Whew! Hopefully you can join us for all that fun, and of course, we’ll have plenty of great prizes to give out.
You probably know about all our great new specials, and if you forgot, you can find them on our website or read about them everyday on Facebook or maybe even Twitter.
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“My girlfriend looks a little like Charlize Theron…and a lot like Patrick Ewing” -Zach Galifianakis
I thought would add a joke from Zach Galifianakis to this post since he is the star of “The Hangover” which you can see this Thursday at the OG. Here are the details…
Beer and Movie Night -” The Hangover”
Thursday January 21st @ 8:00pm
Come watch the funniest comedy of 2009 while enjoying your favorite brew!
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January 15, 2010 by jnaz
http://promotemichigannews.blogspot.com/2010/01/hoist-one-for-haiti-arcadia-ales-to.html
In an effort to raise much needed dollars for the earthquake victims in Haiti, Arcadia Ales in Battle Creek will donate every dollar from on-site tap sales on Saturday, January 16 to relief efforts.
Proceeds to Benefit:
**Doctors Without Border
**Catholic Relief Services
**American Red Cross
Arcadia Ales
103 W. Michigan Avenue
Battle Creek, Michigan
SATURDAY HOURS: Noon to 11pm
Wowser, I knew they were awesome, but every dollar?
Update:
MORE THAN $1600 WAS RAISED TO BENEFIT:
Doctors Without Border | Catholic Relief Services | American Red Cross
ON BEHALF OF EVERYONE AT ARCADIA ALES – THANK YOU!
Arcadia Ales
103 W. Michigan Avenue
Battle Creek, Michigan
I think Arcadia deserves all the thanks. What a great thing to do.
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January 15, 2010 by jnaz
Wolverine Brewing Co. will occupy about 6,000-square-feet in the former Big George’s Home Appliance Mart building on West Stadium.
The deal lets the partners behind the beer – already sold across the state under the flagship Wolverine Premium Lager brand – build their niche in Michigan’s growing specialty beer market, which to date has focused on ales.
The beer is an American Premium Lager, one of about 100 official beer categories in the United States., Roy said. It’s also the most popular style among mass-produced beers.
“It’s what everyone is used to drinking,” Roy said. Wolverine, he added, “is on the more full-bodied end of the spectrum.”
http://www.annarbor.com/business-review/wolverine-brewing-co-will-open-westside-ann-arbor-microbrewery-by-april/
Head brewer will be Oliver Roberts, now assistant brewer at Grizzly Peak in downtown Ann Arbor. Ron Jeffries, owner of Jolly Pumpkin in Ann Arbor, also has been helpful with the set up, Roy said.
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One of my favorite beers returns tonight to Original Gravity. It is their 440 Pepper Smoker. Brad brews this beer with German smoked malts then adds fresh jalapenos throughout the brewing process. Both of these flavors 
are perfectly balanced so that they never overwhelm each other. It is a great beer.
I am trying to figure out when I am going to go to pick up a growler of this beer. It is harder than one might think because it’s 6:30 in the morning and I have decided to quit drinking coffee on work days.
Here are the details from their website…
1.12.10
Seasonal / Rotating Tap Release – 440 Pepper Smoker!
Tuesday January 12th @ 6:00pm
Back before the summer by popular demand!
Brew crew members get $3.00 pints of the smoker all night long.
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