Editor's note: The name of a council member has been corrected. Also, the council did not vote on the company's application. That's been corrected also. Northern United Brewing Company, LLC, doing business as Jolly Pumpkin is a step closer to redeveloping the former Martinrea/Pilot building in the industrial park on ...
My son Jeremy had been wanting to try the Truffled French Fries at today's Frugal Floozie Friday feature — the Jolly Pumpkin Cafe & Brewery — since I first told him that I'd found the intriguing dish while searching through a variety of menus one day while making a list ...
Ashley's in Ann Arbor was listed as a 'best beer restaurant' in the annual Ratebeer awards. Ratebeer, a consumer-driven beer rating site, has released the list of winners in its annual Ratebeer awards, and Michigan beers, brewers and restaurants fared especially well this year. Michigan beers took the top three ...
Sandwich lovers will delight in a charming blog, run by a pool of traveling sports writers, that celebrates road food with a focus on sandwiches. Or, as they describe it: "We're sportswriters by trade, sandwich writers by passion." Sports metaphors abound, and the authors have a particular affinity for everything ...
The Dexter Leader reports that Men's Journal has released its annual list of "The 25 best beers in the world," and Dexter brewery Jolly Pumpkin's Oro de Calabaza has made the cut. Calling the beer "oaky, spicy, floral and slightly tart," Men's Journal writers Christian Debenedetti and Seth Fletcher noted ...
So many of my fondest food memories are simple tastes and smells from my childhood. I remember helping my mom add the chocolate chips to the cookie dough, or the smell of Campbell’s tomato soup simmering on the stove. And this time of year, as the tomatoes in the garden ...
I was looking through the pictures on my camera the other day, and realized that I take a lot - I mean a lot - of pictures of hamburgers. This led to two epiphanies. First, I realized that this burger eating might be one of the reasons that all my ...
Ron Jeffries doesn’t care that his craft brew beers aren’t to everyone’s taste. Jeffries is owner and founder of Jolly Pumpkin breweries in Dexter, Ann Arbor and Traverse City, and he uses unique “sour” bacteria that impart a distinct flavor to his brew. He said this means he’s had a ...
Spring has sprung both temporally and meteorologically, but where does that leave you in relation to the world of beer? What should you be drinking in this most temperamental of seasons? Unfortunately the answer is not simple. While fall can lay claim to Oktoberfest, winter to stout, and summer to ...
No, it's just master brewer Ron Jeffries. The New York Times has a blind tasting review of Belgian-style ales today, and Dexter's Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales took the top spot with their Oro de Calabaza Golden Ale. Also in the top 5 is Good Harbor Golden Ale from Leelanau, also ...
Limité Magazine has a glowing story up on the Ann Arbor area dining scene. Vinology, Paesano, Arbor Brewing Company, Mediterrano, The Jolly Pumpkin and The Common Grill are profiled. The author, Leslie Long, expressed surprise that a college town of Ann Arbor's size focuses on sustainable, seasonal, organic and artisanal ...
Beverage prejudice is a problem I am confronted with on a daily basis: the beer drinker who doesn't drink wine, the scotch drinker who doesn't drink bourbon, the vodka drinker who has no interest in any other alcoholic beverage. While all such prejudices are equally egregious, both the nature of ...


This small house on South Industrial Highway in Ann Arbor is packed with environmentally friendly features from roof to floor. But no one lives in this green house. Instead, it’s used as a model for energy efficiency and environmentally friendly living, from its metal roof to its natural linoleum floors. ...
Former teen idol Davy Jones, who performs at Tecumseh Center for the Arts at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, fully acknowledges that when he and Mickey Dolenz, Mike Nesmith and Peter Tork starred in the television show “The Monkees” from 1966-68, they bypassed the typical hoops that most music acts had ...
Cindy Hegenauer and Dede Phillips-Hoydic got what they came for. So did 200 others willing to wait in line nearly two hours. “We got here at 11,” said Hegenauer. “We wanted to make sure we got ours.”
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