Muskrat Mashers May 2009 Meeting
Thursday May 28th 6-8 p.m.
Harbor Inn & Ale – Monroe, MI
www.MuskratMashers.com – Thanks to everyone that attended the first meeting.  For those that couldn’t attend, we had a wonderful turn out and I think everyone walked away learning something from another attendee.   We invite everyone back for our May meeting.  This [...]

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I know I posted the same this earlier but I wanted to get out a reminder about the Michigan Beer Events being hosted by Arbor Brew Pub and Corner Brewery. Below is an excerpt from the Arbor newsletter.

ABC Brew Pub – Michigan Beer Toast May 11, 2009 06:00 PM
Michigan ratified the 21st Amendment (repealing prohibition) [...]

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One of the great aspects of a local brewery is the sense of community that the good ones have. That is on full display this Saturday at Original Gravity where there will be a Team T1D fundraiser supporting the American Diabetes Association and the Alzheimer’s Association. Diabetes hits close to home for friend and fellow [...]

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Yesterday was Michael Jackson’s birthday. For anyone who’s reading this blog, I don’t need to explain which Michael Jackson I’m referring to.
Anyhow, yesterday, at 6 p.m.  the whole beer world was toasting the late Michael Jackson, the world’s beer guru. What was I drinking? A Corona. With Lime. Why is this so significant? Because, according [...]

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I am happy to announce that today, Utah Governor Jon Huntsman signed legislation legalizing home-brewing in Utah. Click here for the full story. Well, okay not the full story. The closest thing I could find to an official story on this was from the Salt Lake Tribune. Apparently, the Gov. signed this bill along with 96 other [...]

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“I’m not comfortable with home brewing… It seems fraught with mischief to me.”
- Gregory Bell
Utah State Senator (R)
Several years ago Kevin and I traveled to the Four Courners area of the Southwest to visit his sister who lives in Durango, Colorado. Like every vacation we take, we managed to make it into a beer trip – being sure [...]

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This past weekend marked the first Michigan beer festival that I was able to participate in (by “participate in”, I mean drink) since before Maggie was born.  Last year I attended the Michigan Winter Beer Festival in Grand Rapids as a volunteer pourer for Rochester Mills Brewing Company. I attended the summer festival, but mostly  a spectator [...]

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“All those years I was dreaming of other things, I was actually doing what I really wanted: hanging out with my family, drinking with my friends, making friends with my family and hanging with my drinking.”
- Homer Simpson
It’s getting close to lent which means it is almost time to practice the religion (Catholicism) that I was raised [...]

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The Beer Institute and the Brewers Association today applauded members of the United States House of Representatives for the introduction of H.R. 836 the Brewers Excise and Economic Relief (BEER) Act, which effectively returns the federal beer excise tax back to its pre-1991 level of $9 per barrel.

http://www.realbeer.com/blog/?p=955

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