Here is a cool event going on at Original Gravity. It is a special screening of the George Romero classic horror flick plus small batch release. Here are the details.
Night of the Living Brew…. Small Batch Beer Release @ 6:00pm – Pumpkin Ale Screening of the 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead presented by Ain’t Doin [...]

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Starting today Original Gravity will be open on Sundays from noon to 8pm.
It is a big sports day in Detroit with the Tigers needing a win and the Lions on TV. So head to OG to watch the games. If the games start to go horribly wrong, OG has great beer and terrific sandwiches. Just in case you need a [...]

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The Ann Arbor Michigan Jolly Pumpkin location opens to the public on Wednesday, September 16th @ 11 a.m.
Address:  311 S. Main Street Ann Arbor, MI 48104 (click for map)
More information on the opening, posted on Beer Advocate:
Here is what the opening draught list will look like:
- Bam Biere
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Bam Noire
- 
Autumn Bam (pub only amber [...]

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The AHA is asking for help from American beer lovers. They are asking you to write your U.S. House Representative and ask him to join House Small Brewers Caucus. Below is the action alert along with the form letter to send out to your Representative.
Support the Community of Beer Enthusiasts
and Small Brewers-
Contact Your Congressional Representative
Dear Beer [...]

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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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Homer: All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say ‘Yo Goober! Where’s the meat?’. I’m trying to impress people here, Lisa. You don’t win friends with salad.
Bart: [musically] You don’t win friends with salad! You don’t win friends with salad! You don’t win friends [...]

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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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Hey, all you SE Michiganders!  Do you wish you could taste one of the best beers from the MBG’s Winter Beer Festival? On March 31st , you can. Original Gravity in Milan will be serving their Smoked Amber w/ Jalapeno. I plan on having mine with one of their Smoked Turkey & Guacamole sandwiches. See you there?

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I’ve had this day marked on my calendar for a month now. I’ve been patiently counting down the days until Wednesday, March 4th. I’ve been calling it Shorts Day. No, not the day where I dig my ripped up shorts out of the bottom drawer and my wife comments how I [...]

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 I rate my breweries/brewpubs in how far that I wished I lived from them. The Livery is one of my favorite places in the state and I give them the highest rating of a Fonzie room (If you remember they moved The Fonze to a room above the Cunningham’s garage so he would get more air time).  You can’t get [...]

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