Mead Day, organized by the American Homebrewers Association (AHA), is a national event to help increase camaraderie among homebrewers and meadmakers to introduce or reintroduce the meadmaking hobby.
Each year on the first Saturday in August, homebrewers around the nation are encouraged to invite non-brewing and brewing friends and family to celebrate by making mead.
One local [...]

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Today is a sad day for fans of King Brewing and King’s friendly owner Scott King. This is the last day you can visit their brewery so please if you can stop by to say goodbye. I hope we will see Scott pop up somewhere else in Michigan making beer. 
Here are the details from Scott off of the [...]

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Inspired by, and in tribute to, the “I am a Craft Brewer” video shown at the 2009 Craft Brewers Conference. This is dedicated to all of the men and women who comprise the American Craft Brewing Movement and to the countless others who comprise the Home Brewing Movement.

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http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/07/16/going-smoke-free-is-easy-as-abc/
http://arborbrewing.com/images/brewpub/smokefree.pdf
Ann Arbor, MI July 10, 2009: Arbor Brewing Company is pleased to announce that we will be going smoke-free effective August 3, 2009. We are making this change in our operations in order to provide a safer and more comfortable environment for our customers and staff.

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It’s Michigan Beer Month. But for me almost every month is Michigan Beer Month. I was trying to figure out a way to honor Michigan breweries a little differently, so I decided to pay a tribute to the women of Michigan beer. Brewing is considered a male dominated industry. Yet Michigan has some great women that work [...]

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The Michigan Beer Buzz crew was recently interviewed for the “Beer Issue” of Real Detroit Weekly.  Real Detroit is a weekly newsprint publication featuring entertainment in Detroit, Michigan.   The publication is now in its seventh year of publishing and distributes more than 65,000 papers to over 1,500 locations (bars, restaurants, stores) around Detroit.
This issue of [...]

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Kid Rock rolls out his beer tonight
BY MELANIE D. SCOTT • FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER • July 17, 2009
When Kid Rock takes the stage tonight at Comerica Park for the first of two Detroit shows, his music won’t be the only thing featured — so will his new beer.After a year of planning, Kid [...]

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July 23 is the day before the big Michigan Brewers’ Guild Summer Beer Festival and Original Gravity is having a kick-off party. Come out and enjoy some music and/or outdoor seating. It will be a great warm up for the weekend. Plus, you will get a special preview of his newest beer. Below are the [...]

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I’m going to just cut to the chase. The beer list for the Summer Festival  has been released. You can find it on Michigan Brewer’s Guild’s The Mash. Naturally, I am too excited not to post it on our blog.
The event takes place at Riverside Park in Ypsilanti’s historic Depot Town on July 24 & [...]

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What: Michigan Brewers Guild Upper Peninsula Oktoberfest
Where: Marquette, MI
When: September 12, 2009
Details are still sketchy about the UP beer fest in September, however we did receive word from Scott Graham (Executive Director of the Michigan Brewers Guild) today.   Scott confirmed that they have set a date and location for the “Michigan Brewers Guild Oktoberfest.”
“We [...]

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