In the old days proud fathers celebrated the birth of their newborn babies by handing out cigars wrapped in plastic and tied with a blue band to announce the arrival of a boy and a pink band to announce the arrival of a girl. Needless to say, with the concerns about the health effects (and overall stigma) of [...]

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Fischer C. Jex is one home-brewer who is not concerned about hop shortages. He’s keeping alive ancient brewing traditions while incorporating alternative ingredients taken from the natural world around him. He is willing to share his love and knowledge of ancient brewing techniques and will be holding a demonstration on May 17th at Circle [...]

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Attention all Downriver Michigan Beer Lovers. Big Bear Lodge in Flat Rock is having a Founders Beer Dinner on Thursday, April 24 from 7-9 p.m.
Kevin and I attended one of Big Bear’s first Beer Dinners in September. The featured brewery was Arbor Brewing Company and (to honor the beginning of football season) the food was [...]

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Okay all you beer loving climate change skeptics out there. (Okay… at least those of you who believe climate change is real but don’t care because you don’t believe that humans are part of the problem. Those of you who don’t believe it exists at all have probably already disregarded this post anyway.) Listen up because this concerns you.    [...]

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Great Lakes, great brew
By Jack Hittinger - Hillsdale Collegian
“You’ve got to be better if you’re going to compete against a national company,” he said. King’s Brewing Co. in Pontiac, Mich., has an Irish Red that Halley maintains is better than Killian’s.
“Once you try it, you’ll never want a Killian’s again,” he said.
And according to most [...]

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The big topic of conversation in 1933 was beer. The papers were full of daily updates of when we would be allowed to legally imbibe. Articles ran helping people brush up on the termanology of beer and even propaganda that sided with the “wets”. Some states were able to drink 3.2 beer on April 7th [...]

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By Kylie Conway - NBC 24 Toledo, OH
“As of six months ago, you could get a majority of hops for around $6 to $10 a pound. Now, most of them are going for $30 to $45 a pound,” said Maumee Bay Brewing Company Brew Master Jonathan Koster.
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Nate Thompson passed this article to us from the Toledo Blade. It’s a great article on the history of Buckeye beer.
When Monroe lost it’s big brewery (Wahl Brewing Co.) to a fire in 1905, Buckeye came into Monroe and set up a office and warehouse and had a successful run as one of Monroe’s most loved beers. [...]

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Name: Brian Richards
Location: Marquette, MI right next to Lake Superior.
Brewing Blog: http://homebrewingadventures.blogspot.com
How long have you been brewing: I have been brewing for about 6-7 years now.
Why did you start brewing: I got into brewing because I had got into drinking beers like Bell’s Two-Hearted Ale and also discovered the amazing world of Belgian [...]

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While attending the third of four “Beer School” classes taught by Rex Halfpenny at Dragonmead in Warren MI, Rex gave us two Belgian Tripels (BJCP style 18C) and asked us to determine which one we liked better.  One was a local beer.  One was from someplace “near” Michigan.
Both beers were to style, with spicy, peppery, and citrus aromas and spicy, fruity, and [...]

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