Morning Edition, December 24, 2008 · Consider the libations of the season: Spiked eggnog. Mulled wine. What about a nice frosty Christmas beer? ….listen above or click here for article.
(thanks JC!)

Posted in Beer News 1 Comment »

As some of you may know, I work at The Monroe Publishing Co. in Monroe, MI.  I manage the New Media department, which basically means anything internet/website related.   We created a blog network a year or two ago (blogsmonroe.com), which MiBeerBuzz is part of.   The blogs have been relatively stable the past year on [...]

Posted in Beer News 7 Comments »

The following is a note posted by Scott (Shorts Brewing) – on Beer Advocate Great Lakes forums:
http://beeradvocate.com/forum/read/1690631
Well we are flying through inspections although the list was pretty deep. We hope to have almost all of them finished this week.
If this is the case it is on to brewing! The first beer will be Pandemonium Pale [...]

Posted in Uncategorized No Comments »

Chris Nass passed this article from Mlive.com written by Tina Reed onto me. It is about some exciting beer related news concerning downtown Ann Arbor. I have the post cut and pasted but you can still click here for the link.

Beer, wine to be made downtown Ann Arbor
Posted by Tina Reed | The Ann Arbor [...]

Posted in Beer News, Beer and Food, Brewery/Brewpub, Michgan products, local food 6 Comments »

I came across this great post from Mark Brushaber in the yahoo group (Craft Beer in Michigan) that I am in. It is about service at breweries/ brewpubs. In short, I like what he had to say so I asked him if I could post it. If you want to read all the comments from the [...]

Posted in Brewery/Brewpub 4 Comments »

Adam, who does the German Journal blog on BlogsMonroe.com, posted some interesting facts about German beer today (click here to read).   The picture below he posted to his flickr.. notice they’re all empty!  Thanks for the good info Adam.

Posted in Uncategorized No Comments »

I know that the Discount Drinks’ Beer Tasting was a few months ago but it’s a great event and I wanted to share the fun we had there. Mike Hoepfner, one of the most knowledgable beer geeks I know,  had a great idea of posting about this in a round table format.   

Kevin: Discount Drinks had one of their beer [...]

Posted in Beer Event No Comments »

Homer: “You must love this country more than I love a cold beer on a hot Christmas morning.”
Are you like me and have a love-hate relationship with Christmas? You have the craziness of Black Friday, annoying Christmas songs, finding the perfect gift for people and you have to spend hours to decorate your house for a [...]

Posted in Beer Event, Brewery/Brewpub, Michgan products 2 Comments »

Title: Repeal Day
Location: The United States of America
Link out: Click here
Description: The 21st Amendment was passed on this day 75 years ago. This amendment repealed the 18th Amendment and brought an end to Prohibition.
The Amendment states…
Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the United States Constitution is hereby repealed.
Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, [...]

Posted in Beer History, Uncategorized 4 Comments »

I just got some big news from the Liberty Street B.C. newsletter.

Liberty Street Brewing Company will open for business on Monday the 8th at 11:00 AM!
We are very excited to announce that we have successfully passed all inspections for local, State and Federal governments, and will officially open on Monday morning.  The assembly of the brewhouse, though [...]

Posted in Beer Event, Brewery/Brewpub, Michgan products 10 Comments »