McGeady’s Adds 2 MI Breweries to Menu
June 14, 2008
McGeady’s Town Pub has added some beer to their menu. Two Detroit Breweries are now available. You can go to Monroe’s downtown and enjoy a Detroit Dwarf from Detroit Beer Co or 2 different ales from Atwater Brewery. One of the Atwater ales they have there is the Vanilla Java Porter. Last night, we went and the VJP was my dessert. In my opinion it is one of the best beers that Atwater brews. Since the new owners have taken over the beer selection has improved. The beer is also reasonably priced. They even have discounts on their beer. Gone are the days when this place was nicknamed McGreedy’s.
129 Lounge is still this best bar to get MI beer in Monroe. Although, since I went out after work 3 Fridays in a row in May their supplies have dwindled. I know that no one at 129 will read this but PLEASE, BRING BACK POET STOUT! It is my session beer.
Now, if we can only get Michigan Bar and Grill or Pete’s Garage on board with selling MI beer we might end up with a nice little beer community in this town. They won’t though. The server at MB&G said they have no room in their refrigerator for MI beer. I guess it is too full of 20 different kinds of lagers. It is frustrating when chain places like Buffalo Wild Wings has a better local beer selection than a local restaurant. I am real close to not returning to either of those places until they serve craft beer from the state where they made a lot of money in.
Well, what started as a small post about a local bar selling some local beer turned ugly toward the end. Sometimes, it is nice just to have a place to vent your frustrations with things around you. Believe me, I am thankful that this is the biggest frustration in my life. This post should be on a whine blog and not a beer blog. Thanks for taking that detour with me.
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June 14th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
I thought your post turned very positive towards the end. The truth is the truth.
June 16th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Are these bottled or on tap? We were just there yesterday and they didn’t mention these at all.
June 16th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Bottles. They probably aren’t listed on the menu anywhere. I usually walk up to their beer cooler every time I go there, just to see if they have anything new. Also, keep a close eye on that chalk board with the beer specials. I drank $2 beels Wheats there one day. mmm.
June 16th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
FWIW the Detroit Dwarf is produced at Atwater also. It is contract brewed under the name of Detroit Brewing Company. Because the Detroit Beer Co is a brewpub, they cannot produce beer for outside sales. Yet again crazy Michigan beer laws make it harder for small breweries to compete.
June 16th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
@rob, thanks, that makes sense. We just asked about what they had on tap.
@Todd, that’s interesting, I was wondering recently about the whole Detroit Dwarf thing with regards to Atwater and DBC.
June 17th, 2008 at 6:36 am
Yeah, the servers at McGeady’s really have no clue about what they are serving when it comes to beer. Their beer list they give you is way out of date. Rob is right when he says just go to the cooler.
Thank you Todd, I didn’t think about that when I wrote this post. For some reason the more I wrote it the angrier I got. I realized that I was writing about a place that added a second MI brewery to their beer menu and how this is news in my hometown.
Thanks Freddy, I figured I would have fished you in with “London Chugging”. The problem is the truth won’t be read by the owners of those two places.