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I am reading old articles this morning while Maggie is napping and I thought I would share with you some of these with you. They are on Michigan and Prohibition and both tell a little about Monroe’s roll in bootlegging. (for my five Monroe readers) 
The first article is a story of bootlegging in Detroit. It is a fascinating article on how illegal [...]

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This is from Mike O’Brien off of the CBinM site.
My wife, Denise, and I will be in Riverside park this week end – Fri., Sat. and Sun. at the Ypsilanti Heritage Festival doing ’seat of the pants’ brewing demonstration each day.
Anybody interested in seeing how simple all grain brewing can be – should plan on [...]

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There was never any good old days
They are today, they are tomorrow
lyrics from Ultimate by Gogol Bordello
When I hear those lyrics I think of America’s brewing industry. Especially after finding this interesting article from the December 29, 1998 Detroit News. It tells the story of the how the city of Detroit gets beer, loses beer, get beer back just to lose it again. Luckily, [...]

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Julius Stroh was seventy-seven in 1933 and had been in charge of Stroh’s since 1908. In his time as president, he and his head brewer, Otto Rosenbusch, started  heating the beer in copper kettles with direct fire. A process Otto witnessed at the Municipal Brewery of Pilsen in Bohemia (Urquell). They also built a new brew house that was completed [...]

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Next Tuesday June 2nd 1909 at around 9:30pm the last brewery in Monroe burnt down to the ground. Below I have the article from the June 3, 1909 Record-Commercial (word for word) plus my original post on Roeder Brewery.
Record Commercial, Thursday June 3, 1909
Heavy Loss Roeder’s Brewery Burns
Wednesday evening, shortly after nine o clock, Jacob Roeder’s brewery [...]

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The May 11th Michigan Beer Toast is now on facebook. Check it out at…
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=73557497830&ref=mf
Don’t worry if you can’t get out that night. You can do it from home. All you need to do is drink a Michigan beer at 6pm on May 11th then raise a glass to the people who gave us our right to [...]

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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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In 1920, the National Prohibition Act destroyed the beer industry in the United States, putting some 1,500 breweries out of business. When the “noble experiment” was repealed in 1933, beer lovers rejoiced, and the beer industry staggered back to its feet. The industry had lost much of its diversity, however, and the emergence of national [...]

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35th Annual Antique Beer and Brewery Collectibles Show
Saturday March 14th, 2009
9 a.m. – 2 p.m.
UAW Hall – 5411 Jackman Road
Toledo, OH 43614 (click for map)
Over 125 brewery-history buffs and collectors will [...]

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