Jeffrey Raidl has a great idea which is to bring the Rate Beer Summer Gathering to Grand Rapids Michigan in 2010. You can help him by following the vote thread at http://www.ratebeer.com/forums/rbsg-10-voting-info_126641.htm and letting your voice be heard.
The following email was sent to the Craft Beer in Michigan yahoo group by Jeffrey Raidl.
Hello fellow MI beer lovers,
Not [...]

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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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Here are all the details including beer list from http://www.michiganbrewersguild.org/ on the upcoming Oktoberfest in Marquette, MI. This is the first year for this event and I hope the UP is ready to party because I am. I should put a disclaimer on that last sentence. I am ready to party a safe amount for someone [...]

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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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It’s Michigan Beer Month. But for me almost every month is Michigan Beer Month. I was trying to figure out a way to honor Michigan breweries a little differently, so I decided to pay a tribute to the women of Michigan beer. Brewing is considered a male dominated industry. Yet Michigan has some great women that work [...]

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I’m going to just cut to the chase. The beer list for the Summer Festival  has been released. You can find it on Michigan Brewer’s Guild’s The Mash. Naturally, I am too excited not to post it on our blog.
The event takes place at Riverside Park in Ypsilanti’s historic Depot Town on July 24 & [...]

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There was never any good old days
They are today, they are tomorrow
lyrics from Ultimate by Gogol Bordello
When I hear those lyrics I think of America’s brewing industry. Especially after finding this interesting article from the December 29, 1998 Detroit News. It tells the story of the how the city of Detroit gets beer, loses beer, get beer back just to lose it again. Luckily, [...]

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The last weekend of this month  is the Michigan Brewer’s Guild Summer Beer Festival. For the beer geek, this is our equvalent to Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Coincidentally this year, both days of the festival  fall on the 24th and 25th but I doubt that could make it seem any more festive. Let’s face it. How can you get [...]

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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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Julius Stroh was seventy-seven in 1933 and had been in charge of Stroh’s since 1908. In his time as president, he and his head brewer, Otto Rosenbusch, started  heating the beer in copper kettles with direct fire. A process Otto witnessed at the Municipal Brewery of Pilsen in Bohemia (Urquell). They also built a new brew house that was completed [...]

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