Maybe I’m the last one to know about this, but I was surprised to see this on a store shelf in Ann Arbor, MI.  Around the same time I saw this, someone let me know they also have them in Toledo @ The Andersons (Thanks Nate).   These are going for somewhere around $22.   I’m happy [...]

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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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Joseph’s Beverage Center
4129 Talmadge Rd, Toledo, OH
(419) 472-1421

This place is one of my favorite beer stores. I can’t think of another that has the amazing selection that they have. You walk in and, once you know the place, you dart straight to the back. You’ll walk up on stacks of [...]

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One of the biggest selling and most controversial newer beers is Blue Moon.  Is Blue Moon (produced by Coors) a good beer to introduce drinkers to the world of craft beer or is it a way for macro-breweries like Coors to capture their share of the craft beer market? I won’t attempt to answer this question because the truth is both sides of [...]

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If I were to send Santa a beer list this year, I’d put the following:
Sam Adams Utopia: Even Santa would scoff at the price of this beer ($120 24 oz bottle), but boy it sure would be interesting to try – article here.
Samichlaus Bier: A Swiss Lager brewed once a year, aged for [...]

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I saw this picture today on Awesomeology. The picture has been around for years, but it made me think of my younger days. We would pile in a car, with the sole destination of crossing the bridge into Canada and hitting The Beer Store. At the time, the $ exchange rate [...]

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