By:  Sylvia Rector - Detroit Free Press
Barbecue meister Brian Perrone, founder of the popular Slows Bar BQ in Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood, and his partners plan to open a Slows carryout and commissary kitchen at the corner of Cass and Alexandrine, across the street from the Old Miami bar, in early 2009.
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The Michigan Brewers Guild’s Summer Beer Festival is coming up next weekend on July 25 & 26. It is one of the highlights of the summer and once you go you will be hooked. Below is the details of the event and the recently released beer list. All information is also available on Michigan Brewers Guild.
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Just wanted to say cheers to Indiana during their beer week. What I like about Indiana Beer Week (July 10-19) is that it is 10 days long. That is how you celebrate a beer week. You make it so that Thursday, Friday and Saturday gets celebrated twice. Then send the week out with a the Indiana Microbreweries Festival  put on by the [...]

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Frog Leg Inn Restaurant in Erie, Michigan is hosting a summer beer dinner next Thursday, July 17th at 6:30 p.m. Two Michigan breweries (Atwater Block Brewery and Detroit Brewing Company) will be featured as well as beers from Avery Brewing Company in Colorado and Dogfishead in Delaware. The beers will be paired with cuisine that creatively combines classic French country [...]

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Todd’s post the other day about laws that hinder breweries is just the tip of the iceberg. Another example of laws that regulate the sale of beer are Blue laws . The purpose of blue laws is to legislate morality. The term is used mainly for laws that ban alcohol which whether we want to admit it or not, some people have a [...]

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The Michigan State Fair Home Brewing Competition has become one of the largest and fastest growing competitions anywhere. From 324 entries in fifteen beer-only categories in 2004, the Michigan State Fair Home Brewing Competition has grown to 720 entries in all 28 beer, cider and mead categories in 2007, making it one of the largest [...]

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Guest Post by Todd Parker  - Master Brewer for Copper Canyon
 
When I was first approached about this topic by Kevin Nash, I enumerated 5 different legal issues that make it more difficult for Craft Brewers in Michigan (this is not an all-inclusive list).  In no particular order, here they are:
            1.  An owner cannot own more [...]

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This month’s Beer Advocate is one of the better issues they’ve had. They have one story that is about how great Midwest breweries are: In particular, Michigan breweries. When I read something like that I always get excited.
One of their monthly features that I really enjoy is Advocate This. It is a page  set aside [...]

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Here is a press release from Craig Belanger and Jerry Jackson of Brew Bubbas about their new website. The launch date is today (July 1st, 2008). As I go through the site, I will comment more on it but I am really excited about Beer Locator. You should check out that page, it’s amazing! Right now, I’ll just let the [...]

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