Coming right up is the Officially Unofficial Start of Summer in Michigan! Whether you’re heading up north to the cottage or grilling and chilling at home, there’s no better holiday companion than a bottle, can, growler, or even keg of your favorite brew produced in the Great Beer State. Celebrate ...
Novice and casual beer drinkers tend to shy away from stout, thinking to avoid a highly alcoholic or overly bitter offering designed for hardcore beer hounds. This misleading profile hampers the acceptance of stout by the general population and, for many, closes the gateway to a finer appreciation of beer.
Happy fifth birthday to Plum Market! Jolly Pumpkin is helping celebrate with a special oak aged plum beer, available Wednesday. It’s still American Craft Beer Week, all the way through Sunday, and Mother Nature loves a delicious craft brewed local beer as much as anyone, with warm temperatures and sunny ...
You know what time of year it is? The time your dear old mom looks forward to with much anticipation? Yes, it’s American Craft Beer Week, from May 14-20. Mom is really hoping you’ll take her out and about to sample some of her favorite microbrewed beverages. Can you deny ...
The new dinnerFeed web site is a lean, mean fighting machine! Here's an easy "I'll be anything you want me to be" recipe. If only personal relationships could be as simple.
Hola, senors and senoritas! Shake off your siesta because there's a whole lot going on this Cinco de Mayo (aka National Homebrew Day), and you don't want to nap through any of it. Afterward, maybe, but not during. Forget the Most Interesting Dos Equis Guy and the Corona beach bums; ...
Mother Nature has thrown me a curveball as far as cliches to use in introducing this Week in Beer. April showers? Despite recent weather, it wasn't particularly rainy this month. May flowers? They've been up since March. Maybe instead of blathering about the weather, we should talk about beer. Spring ...
I've been worried about the asparagus crop this year. Our weird spring has left Michigan's asparagus threatened by unusually warm weather and Michigan's asparagus farmers needing workers to harvest the early crop.
Dr. Steven Yarows with IHA Chelsea Family and Internal Medicine Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a very significant health issue, but one that can be controlled easily and inexpensively. We heard that message from Dr. Steven Yarows on the show this past weekend. Dr. Yarows is a specialist in ...
As you read this, I should be slowly recovering from my vacation down in New Orleans, where I in fact did drink and do shots* before leaving. (Sorry, Lynne Truss.) Perhaps you followed my Big Easy odyssey on the Twitters. Anyway, enough about New Orleans. I'm back in the Deuce, ...
Craving a Two-Hearted firkin? Anxious to try the hard-to-find Black Note Bourbon Barrel Aged Stout? You can stop by Conor O'Neill's on Tuesday, April 17 for a "Bell's Tap Takeover." The festivities begin at 5:30 with the tapping of a firkin of Two-Hearted Ale, Bell's IPA. There will be two ...
With apologies to T.S. Eliot, April is the coolest month, and I'm not talking about the recent dip in temperatures. I mean, of course, the return of our lush flora along with so many great spring and summer seasonal beers, not to mention the various and sundry activities associated with ...
Don Henley, call your office. The Boys of Summer are back, and it’s time to enjoy some America’s Pastime with America’s Other Pastime. That’s right, I’m talking about baseball and beer. There’s plenty of both to be had in the days ahead, so let’s quit talking about it and get ...
It looks as if our preview of summer weather is over, but that’s OK — maybe a freeze or two will help kill off some of the mosquitoes, wasps, and other nasties faked out by Mother Nature into spawning early. In the meantime, there’s no shortage of tasty local beer ...
Oberon, the summer wheat ale produced by Kalamazoo's Bell's Brewery hit shelves and taps across the state to much fanfare Monday. According to Forbes' Micheline Maynard, more than 60 Michigan bars celebrated by throwing "Oberon Day" parties. At least one Michigan beer lover isn't buying into all the hype, however. ...
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