Thursday the 21st Big Bear Lodge in Flat Rock will be having a beer dinner featuring the beer of New Holland. I am a big fan of their beer. I can not stop drinking their Golden Cap Saisan and The Poet Oatmeal Stout is one of my favorite beers. This event is well worth the price. The [...]

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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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