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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Title: OG\’s IPA Release Party
Location: Original Gravity in Milan
Link out: http://www.ogbrewing.com
Description: IPA Release Night! Enter the contest to Name the IPA!
Date: 2009-02-19
Yes, that’s right! OG will have an IPA on tap starting tomorrow. You can also enter a Name the IPA contest through Saturday.  The winner will get a $50 gift card and an OG t-shirt. They have great looking shirts and [...]

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Here is a list of Breweries that will be at the Michigan Brewers Guild Winter Beer Festival. The list is from the Mash on their website.
We have a great turnout of brewery members pouring beer at the Winter Festival, here is the list:
Arbor Brewing Corner Brewery
Arcadia Brewing Company
Atwater Block Brewery
Bastone
Big Buck Brewery & Steakhouse
Big Rock [...]

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Our native Monroe, MI blogger Adam, who does the German blog for BlogsMonroe.com, recently visited Pilsner Urquell Brewery.  He posted some awesome pictures and discussed some of the techniques the brewery has become known for.
My favorite picture was the beer vending machine. 
German Journal – Czech, Czech…. (click here)
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I was researching Monroe brewing history when I came across a name in the 1860 census that I knew I heard of before. The name was from the book “Brewed in Detroit” by Peter H. Blum. In the book he tells the story of the first brewery in Ypsilanti and how it was started by a [...]

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Starting next week, Fort Street Brewery will be having their 4th birthday. Unofficially the celebration starts tonight with their 95th cask tapping. Why hear me go on about the events at Fort Street when you can see what Doug posted on MBG.
This Thursday, Febrewary 5th at 8 p.m., we will tap our
95th cask-conditioned ale. “Mega Quai”, is Megasonic
Lupulin Warhead [...]

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I was driving home tonight and I caught a few minutes of Governor Granholm’s “State of the State” address. I have to admit that I was listening, but I wasn’t really LISTENING. Then my ears perked up. Here’s what I heard:  
“When I talk to people across Michigan they often ask, “What can I do to help?” Here’s my [...]

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Here is an article from the Freep about Liberty Street. By the way, I got some growlers of their IPA and Stout and they were both great beers.
New brew on tap in Old Village

By Stephanie Angelyn Casola
OBSERVER STAFF WRITER
Joe Walters is living every home-brewer’s dream. On Dec. 8, he opened the doors of Liberty Street [...]

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“Ten Commandments of Beer?
The cornerstones
of the Brewish faith!”      – Homer Simpson
We recently had a great guest post from Mark Brushaber about the lack of knowledge of servers. It reminded me that I had a post saved about my own beer pet peeves that would make a great companion piece.
It started way back in March on a [...]

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