Wineries, breweries can share facilities
By Tim Weatherhead – April 06, 2009
LANSING — Michigan’s wine and beer industry may have received a boost from a new state law that allows companies to share facilities.
Wineries and breweries now can take advantage of federal rules that let them share facilities.
“All these growers can get together, have wineries make [...]

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Task force: Raise Michigan’s beer tax to fight child abuse
Charlie Cain / Detroit News Lansing Bureau – Thursday, April 9, 2009
Lansing — Michigan should increase its beer tax by a nickel a bottle to combat child abuse and neglect and decrease the number of children who end up in foster care, the co-chair of a [...]

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Michigan’s beer industry generated $4.9 billion last year, study says
by Alex Nixon | KalamaBrew
WASHINGTON — Beer, apparently, equals big bucks.
Michigan’s beer industry directly employed some 3,920 people in the state last year, paying total wages of $250 million, according to a study sponsored by two national industry groups.
The study, by the National Beer Wholesalers [...]

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One of the great aspects of a local brewery is the sense of community that the good ones have. That is on full display this Saturday at Original Gravity where there will be a Team T1D fundraiser supporting the American Diabetes Association and the Alzheimer’s Association. Diabetes hits close to home for friend and fellow [...]

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I want to try to start the  Michigan Beer Toast again this year. Last year May 11th fell on Mother’s Day so that made it harder for me to promote the toast. I didn’t want my mom to find out I was planning a beer event on her day. Of course there is no way she would have [...]

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I want to sincerely thank everyone that came out to our Oberon Release Party on Thursday. I got to meet some really nice beer geeks and I enjoyed a lot of Oberons. I hope everyone had as much fun as I did.
I get a little worked up before any event we try to put on. [...]

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Craig from MI Beer Scene/ Brew Bubbas passed this tweet onto me from Governor Granholm. Check out the beer list at their stadium. DC may not have the right to have a vote in the House Of Representatives yet but they can enjoy great beer at their baseball games.
govgranholmOur own MI @bellsbeer is now even being sold in [...]

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I like watching old movies and once in a while I see something in one that surprises me. The latest incident was while I was watching “The Lady Eve”(1941). It is a highly regarded film but not by me. The story doesn’t hold up at all.
The biggest problem was Henry Fonda’s character. If you love him as [...]

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