Guest Post and Photography by: Bryan Bosch
My wife and I went to Grand Haven this weekend to see my parents and celebrate our sons second birthday. Evey time we drive over the bridge from Spring Lake I see this brewery … Old Boys’, but I’ve never gone in until this past weekend. I was [...]

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The Town Meeting - Elk Rapids, MI
By Hadley Robinson
Antrim County News Editor
ELK RAPIDS - By the time spring rolls around, Short’s Brewing Company will be pumping out bottles of beer in Elk Rapids.
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If you haven’t heard already, Milan is getting it’s own brewery. Ypsilanti home brewer, Brad Sancho will soon be living the dream all home brewers hope to eventually graduate to. Brad has been home brewing for around 6 years using a 10 gallon all-grain system he built in [...]

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Stopped by the Motor City Brewing Works this past weekend after a show at the Fisher. Definitely worth stopping in. The atmosphere is cozy and the staff very friendly. And the beer.. the beer was great. I tasted almost everything, the Brown, Porter, Lager and ended up [...]

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(01.09.08) - City commissioners Monday unanimously approved a proposal for a new microbrewery in the city.  Read more here (an article on the Detroit News site in Macomb Briefs - scroll to bottom of page).  
*Thanks for the heads up Mike - anyone else know more about this?

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Just heard about this brew pub restaurant opening in early February. It will be located in the Fallen Timbers complex in Maumee, OH. This will be the chains first in Ohio, and is one of fourteen new locations scheduled to open in 2008.
I did a little research on Granite City beer, [...]

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Guest Post by: Josh Marenger
Believe it or not there is actually some good beer to be had north of the Mighty Mac. The closest place to me, and my favorite is Hereford & Hops in Escanaba. They have other locations in Wausau, WI and Pennsylvania, but this is the original. Since [...]

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Written by Kevin and Sarah 
Sarah and I often complain that this little corner of Michigan doesn’t have a brewery. Our closest Michigan brewpub is Sports in Wyandotte. It’s a pretty good place with good food but it is still over a 30 minute drive. The brewery closest to our house is actually in Toledo. Maumee Bay Brewing Company is only about a 20 minutes [...]

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Guest post by: John Nasers
Our latest trip to Dark Horse Brewing Company was on Christmas Eve. There were a number of places we could have tried to stop at, heading out of the Detroit Metro area on the way to Battle Creek: Ashley’s in Ann Arbor (some friends were planning on being there), Arcadia [...]

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Last Saturday(12/8/07) was a day to celebrate the 11th anniversary of one of the most unique breweries in the state of Michigan, Arcadia Brewing Co. It was our first visit to the brewery and initially we were only going for the Michigan Brewer’s Guild membership tour between 1pm -3pm. Once we got there we came [...]

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