My wife, Denise, and I will be in Riverside park this week end – Fri., Sat. and Sun. at the Ypsilanti Heritage Festival doing ’seat of the pants’ brewing demonstration each day.
Anybody interested in seeing how simple all grain brewing can be – should plan on coming down to check it out!
It is a long way off but I do get excited when beer events are located within 15 minutes of my house. Any questions can be sent to monroe.cac@comcast.net. When I get more details I will post them.
Title: Brew n’ Brats For Tots Location: FOP Hall 1051 Strasburg Road Date: 2009-10-17 Start Time: 4pm End Time: 11pm
Tickets: $25/presale, $30/ at the door
All proceeds go to the Monroe County Child Advocacy Center
Includes beer and admission
Entry ticket gives you 4-4oz.samples of beer
Commemorative glass for beer samples given on admission
Extra samples will be available for purchase at
5 tickets for $10
12 tickets for $20
Venue Date and time
October 17 4p-11p
Venue Michigan Fraternal Order of Police Hall
1051 STRASBURG RD MONROE, MI 48161-9719
Silent Auction Items
Food
Traditional October fest food will be available for purchase
The AHA is asking for help from American beer lovers. They are asking you to write your U.S. House Representative and ask him to join House Small Brewers Caucus. Below is the action alert along with the form letter to send out to your Representative.
Support the Community of Beer Enthusiasts
and Small Brewers-
Contact Your Congressional Representative
Dear Beer Enthusiasts and Homebrewers,
We’re asking you to contact your U.S. Representative and ask him or her to join the House Small Brewers Caucus. What is the House Small Brewers Caucus?
The U.S. House of Representatives Small Brewers Caucus was formed in 2007 by interested Members of Congress. Their mission is to gain a better understanding of all aspects of small, amateur and professional craft brewing, from business and regulatory issues to the brewing process and history of the small brewing community. The members of the Caucus are passionate about small brewers and craft beer. Co-chairs Representative Peter DeFazio (OR) and Representative Denny Rehberg (MT) have themselves been homebrewers and are avid beer enthusiasts.
Currently, only 49 Representatives belong to the Caucus. To put that in some perspective, 344 Congressional districts are home to at least one small brewery and we assume every one of the 435 districts is home to homebrewers and beer enthusiasts.
You can help by asking your U.S. Representative to join the Caucus. Help assure that you have the strongest voice possible speaking on your beer behalf in Congress.
You’ve come to appreciate the flavor, diversity and quality of your homebrew or locally brewed beers from America’s small breweries. In these uncertain economic and legislative times you can imagine how important it is to educate Congress about the community of homebrewers, beer enthusiasts and small brewers.
Ask your Representative to join the Caucus. Following are resource materials to assist you, including a brief message you can use to make your contact, either sending it “as is” or modifying it to add your personal message.
Thanks for all you do in support of America’s small brewing community.
Charlie Papazian
President, Brewers Association
Gary Glass
Director, American Homebrewers Association
Below is a list of the 49 U.S. Representatives who are currently Small Brewers Caucus members. If your Representative DOES NOT appear on this list, please take a moment and email your Member of Congress about joining the Caucus.
If your Representative is already a member, please email him/her a brief thank you for their support of both small brewers and you, the craft beer drinker and enthusiast.
Please visit the official U.S. House of Representatives web site http://www.house.gov/ to access your Representative’s personal web page and contact information – just enter your zip code in the “Find Your Representative” search box in the upper left-hand corner and then click on your Representative’s name on the page that displays to enter his/her personal web page.
House Small Brewers Caucus Roster (as of July 28, 2009)
District
Representative
District
Representative
AR-02
Vic Snyder
MT-AL
Denny Rehberg
AZ-05
Harry Mitchell
NE-02
Lee Terry
CA-01
Mike Thompson
NY-12
Nydia Velazquez
CA-02
Wally Herger
NY-17
Eliot Engel
CA-06
Lynn Woolsey
NY-22
Maurice Hinchey
CA-49
Darrell Issa
NY-24
Mike Arcuri
CA-50
Brian Bilbray
OK-03
Frank Lucas
CO-01
Diana DeGette
OK-04
Tom Cole
CO-02
Jared Polis
OR-01
David Wu
CO-03
John Salazar
OR-02
Greg Walden
CO-05
Doug Lamborn
OR-03
Earl Blumenauer
CO-07
Ed Perlmutter
OR-04
Peter DeFazio
GA-05
John Lewis
PA-06
Jim Gerlach
HI-02
Mazie Hirono
PA-08
Patrick Murphy
IA-02
Dave Loebsack
PA-15
Charles Dent
KS-03
Dennis Moore
SC-01
Henry Brown, Jr.
MA-01
John Olver
TX-23
Ciro Rodriguez
MA-09
Stephen Lynch
TX-25
Lloyd Doggett
MA-10
William Delahunt
VA-05
Tom Perriello
MI-01
Bert Stupak
VT-AL
Peter Welch
MI-02
Peter Hoekstra
WA-02
Rick Larsen
MI-04
Dave Camp
WA-04
Doc Hastings
MI-06
Fred Upton
WA-08
Dave Reichert
MI-11
Thaddeus McCotter
WI-02
Tammy Baldwin
MO-03
Russ Carnahan
Suggested letter for your U.S. Representative
Dear Representative _____________,
As your constituent, I am writing to ask you to join the House Small Brewers Caucus, co-chaired by Representatives Peter DeFazio and Denny Rehberg.
The purpose of the Small Brewers Caucus is to provide Members of Congress and their staff an opportunity to learn about activities of the American craft brewing community, which includes over 1,500 small and independent American brewery businesses, and beer and homebrewing enthusiasts that participate in and contribute to local community activities and economies. The Small Brewers Caucus also offers opportunities to learn about the science and art of beer and brewing, the dynamics of running a small business as a brewery, the associated regulatory and societal issues and the value of craft beers and small brewing activities.
As a beer enthusiast and ardent supporter of America’s small professional and amateur brewers, I appreciate the many contributions their small, independent businesses make to their local communities. From their flavorful and distinctive locally brewed beers to their community involvement, small breweries are important economic and social hubs in their local communities.
Please contact the Washington office of either Representative DeFazio (202-225-6416) or Representative Rehberg (202-225-3211) to learn more about the Small Brewers Caucus and to join. Thank you for considering my request.
There are two more reasons to go to Original Gravity this week. Although, I never have a shortage of reasons to go to the OG. Sadly, I do have way too many reason why I can’t get to the OG.
The first event is Thursday is a Michigan Fruit Beer Small Batch Release. Below are the details from their website.
“MI Fruit Beer Small Batches- Thursday August 6th @ 6:00pm We will have (3) seperate small batches of beer this Thursday August 6th. Each Beer is showcasing a unique MI grown fruit. A common beer style (Belgian Training Wheels) was used as the vehicle for each of the following fresh fruit varieties. Red rasperries, blueberries, and red currants.”
The next event is on Saturday at 6pm. It is a Beer 4 Boobs event which is a fundraiser for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Please come out and join the fight against breast cancer. You can come early with the whole family or later to enjoy the music of In Stone. Below are the details from their website.
“Beer 4 Boobs – Breast Cancer Fundraiser – Saturday, August 8th
Join OG and local 3-day participants, team Guardian Girls, to help end breast cancer with a fundraiser for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure. BBQ, Live music from In Stone !!!”
If you are in the Downriver area there is a great beer event today at Fort Street Brewery that runs 1pm to 8pm. Here are the details from Doug Beedy.
Title: Fort Street Brewery’s Brew-Ha-Ha! Location: Fort Street Brewery Link out: Click here Description: We’ll have six new beers on tap and 14 beers total on tap. If you think you can come Sunday or Monday and get them, you’ll be sorry! This is one day only and the six new one’s will be gone! In addition to the beers, we’ll have a special beer inspired food menu all week, with a couple of extra items on Saturday. More about the food later.
We’ll also have some great local homebrewers brewing up some beer all day long if you’re interested in the brewing process or getting into homebrewing. Jason Smith from Adventures in Homebrewing will be one of those brewers, and he’ll be happy to answer your brewing questions.
For beers, we’ll have our normal seven beers, plus: “Ring Around the Roselare” (a Flemish red style), “Hops in the Shade” (an IPA made witha couple of new hops I got and fermented with the same yeast as Summer Sunsation), “Brown Coffee” (a brown ale made with coffee), “Bourbon Cherry Brown” (a brown ale made with 40% wheat that I added bourbon soaked cherries to), “The Grapes and Grains of Wrath” (grape and grain fermented together. Essentially a porter/port combination), “Cherries Gone Wild” (malt and cherry juice fermented together with wild yeast. Unlike any fruit beer you’ve ever had!), and finally “Up North” (a rye pilsner).
It’s $5 to get your official logo pint glass and your first 5 oz sample. Additional samples are just $1 and all pints are just $3 for the duration of Brew-Ha-Ha! Five of the beers will be set-up out on the patio, and that’s where you can get your glass and tickets. The big brewery door will be open, so feel free to wander around in the brewery and see what’s going on back there.
Mead Day, organized by the American Homebrewers Association (AHA), is a national event to help increase camaraderie among homebrewers and meadmakers to introduce or reintroduce the meadmaking hobby.
Each year on the first Saturday in August, homebrewers around the nation are encouraged to invite non-brewing and brewing friends and family to celebrate by making mead.
One local event can be found at B. Nektar Meadery in Ferndale, MI. Here’s the days events:
B. Nektar Meadery is proud to host Mead Day at our facility once again this year. It just-so-happens to be the 1 year anniversary of our official opening! This year is sure to be fun with mead making demonstrations, a Ken Schramm honey presentation, food, music, and of course – mead tasting all day.
All of our meads will be available for purchase as well as some bad-ass t-shirts, sexy tank tops for the ladies, and logo glasses (we do take credit cards). Ken Schramm will also be selling and signing his book, “The Compleat Mead Maker” (cash or check only).
Mead Day Schedule:
·10:00 – Open – Mead Tasting
·10:30 – 11:30 – Mead Making Demo ( Ancient Orange )
·11:30 – 1:00 – Food and Music (BBQ w/ different mead/honey BBQ sauces)
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 King Brewing website.
Comarades in Beer:
Well…. You can’t say we haven’t tried. Unfortunately, we came up short. King Brewing Co., after almost 15 years of fighting the good fight, will be closing on July 29th. We have laughed, we have cried, we have lost money….In the end, our landlord wanted his building and we couldn’t do a thing about it.
Maybe in the future we will have an opportunity to brew again, but right now we are focusing on the next two weeks. Therefore, we are going to party like rockstars! There is beer to be consumed!! Please, please, please come by. Drink beer. Get your mug. Say goodbye for now. We will be filling mug club beers for happy hour prices until the 29th. On the 29th we are celebrating, appropriately, with ZAPPA. Ugly Radio Rebellion will be here to say goodbye. Please come by, often, to see us off.
If you have time and want to move large #&*@, we could certainly use the help. And please if possible, attempt to say little about our situation. Or at least nice things about us. Thank you, thank you, thank you for your support and allowing us to enter your lives. I can’t imagine a better group of people. From the bottom of my heart, I thank you. It has been an amazing run and you have been the most important part.
Inspired by, and in tribute to, the “I am a Craft Brewer” video shown at the 2009 Craft Brewers Conference. This is dedicated to all of the men and women who comprise the American Craft Brewing Movement and to the countless others who comprise the Home Brewing Movement.
Ann Arbor, MI July 10, 2009: Arbor Brewing Company is pleased to announce that we will be going smoke-free effective August 3, 2009. We are making this change in our operations in order to provide a safer and more comfortable environment for our customers and staff.
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 , sell or promote Michigan’ s brewing industry.
Still,we have to face the fact that the majority of beer drinkers are men. On a crowded and competitive beer shelf, it is important to catch the eye of the consumer while establishing your own style of label. One thing I have noticed is the use of attractive women on the some Michigan beer labels. I wondered, I’m sure it was after a few beers, the real story of the women of Michigan beer labels. The women I am spotlighting in this post all represent a different style of woman. They run the gamut from a working frontier woman to a free spirited modern girl.
I e-mailed some Michigan breweries and asked them to add some depth to the two dimensional ladies we see on our beer. Read the rest of this entry »
August 19, 2009 by Kevin Nash 
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B. Nektar Meadery is proud to host Mead Day at our facility once again this year. It just-so-happens to be the 1 year anniversary of our official opening! This year is sure to be fun with mead making demonstrations, a Ken Schramm honey presentation, food, music, and of course – mead tasting all day.
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