If you are in the Downriver area there is a great beer event today at Fort Street Brewery that runs 1pm to 8pm. Here are the details from Doug Beedy.
Title: Fort Street Brewery’s Brew-Ha-Ha!
Location: Fort Street Brewery
Link out: Click here
Description: We’ll have six new beers on tap and 14 beers total on tap. If you think you [...]

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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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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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“I saw this movie about a bus that had to SPEED around a city, keeping its SPEED over fifty, and if its SPEED dropped, it would explode! I think it was called “The Bus That Couldn’t Slow Down.”  – Homer Simpson
 
I have met some of the best people through the CBiM group and I would put Stephen [...]

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Below  is a notice from Mlive about a public meeting tonight. The meeting is to discuss the plans of a Jolly Pumpkin cafe in Dexter. I know it is short notice but if you can make it they could use your support.

Public hearing on beer cafe plans
by Laurel Firant
Saturday May 02, 2009, 3:32 AM

The Dexter [...]

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WSJ article: Eccentric Brewmaster Takes Distribution Fight to Court
In his latest clash with Big Beer, the eccentric former home brewer has sued one of his distributors in a Michigan state court to try to block it from selling the rights to market his products to an Anheuser-Busch InBev distributor.

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(FENTON, Mich) – The French Laundry Café & Market in Fenton has made a major commitment to the Great Lakes State, with the recent announcement that it will be pouring exclusively Michigan draft beer from here on out.
“The Laundry is proud to feature fresh craft beer from local Michigan micro-breweries,” says bartender Jon Foley. “We’ll [...]

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I am sure most of you beer geeks remember the Stone,  Nøgne Ø and Jolly Pumpkin collaborative beer released during the last holiday season. They are brewing together again and this time at Jolly Pumpkin. This is very exciting for me because it means aging in barrels, Brettanomyces and souring. One problem, it won’t be out [...]

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The Brewers Association of America has released the top 50 breweries in 2008.  Bell’s made the list coming in close to the top at #13.  Go Michigan beer!
Top 50 craft brewing companies by beer sales volume (based on 2008 sales)
1 Boston Beer Co. Boston MA
2 Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Chico CA
3 New Belgium Brewing Co. [...]

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