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Saturday, May 18, 2013
GR takes Beer City 2013 with Kalamazoo and Ann Arbor also among top vote getters
Michigan is starting craft beer out with a bang with competition among Michigan cities inciting some of the highest vote getters in last week’s Beer City USA polling. Grand Rapids, which tied for 1st place last year alongside Asheville, North Carolina, this year took exclusive rights to the title getting over twice as many votes as any other nominated city. Kalamazoo took 2nd place, with Asheville slipping to 3rd, cementing Michigan’s reputation as The Great Beer State. The only other Michigan city to be nominated, Ann Arbor, rounded off the top 4.
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Brewery News
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Cheers! Pure Michigan Launches Craft Beer Radio Spot
Craft Beer Contest Results Announced
Pure Michigan is building on its regional warm weather advertising campaign, launched last week, with a new radio ad showcasing Michigan’s craft beer offerings.
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Monday, April 08, 2013
Sixth Michigan Cask Ale Festival at Ashley’s to Showcase Largest Selection in the State
More Than 1,000 Expected to Attend Unique, Newly Expanded Event
The Michigan Cask Ale Festival returns Saturday, May 4, to Ashley’s Beer & Grill, 7525 Wayne Rd., with expanded hours and the largest lineup of cask-conditioned and served beers in the Festival’s six-year history – and the largest available at one time anywhere in the state.
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Spring Events
Monday, February 11, 2013
Wolverine State Brewing Company Announces Capacity Expansion
Leading The Lager Revolution Into 2013
The Wolverine State Brewing Company is expanding for the second time in two years. With the arrival and installation of new fermentation and conditioning tanks being added to its cellaring operation, the brewery’s production capacity is doubling. Sales in 2012 exceeded company expectations with nearly 1100 barrels sold between retail and wholesale business.
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Friday, January 18, 2013
Wolverine Brewing and RoosRoast to Collaborate on Coffee Beer
The Wolverine State Brewing Company is collaborating with RoosRoast Coffee to create a unique, coffee-infused lager: The Barista. THE BARISTA brings two of Ann Arbor’s new and successful businesses together for the project for the first time.
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Collaboration Beers
Thursday, October 04, 2012
Recap of American made Oktoberfest's at Ashely's in Ann Arbor!
Before I changed careers and became a teacher…before I moved to a college town…before I started following my religion again…September has always felt like the “new year” to me. The weather changes (sometimes drastically), people start buying new school clothes and there’s just a general feeling of settling into a new routine. Something else wonderful happens every fall: Oktoberfest beers start appearing at our favorite pubs!
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Restaurant / Bar Events
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Homegrown Festival: Homegrown food, music and of course—beer!
Last weekend, Ann Arbor hosted its fifth annual Homegrown Festival. Yeah, yeah, I can hear all of the pot jokes you naughty folks are making but seriously folks, this thing is a winner. The festival brings together farmers, gardeners, nonprofit groups, butchers, bakers, candlestick makers and brewers—all under one big tent! There was music, tons of food and a most wonderful beer tent where I am not at all ashamed to say I spent most of my time.
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Fall Events
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Ann Arbor Welcomes Mash at Blue Tractor, a Bourbon and Beer Bar
Located on E. Washington in downtown Ann Arbor, Blue Tractor BBQ & Brewery recently expanded hiring 20 employees and taking over the space formerly occupied by Café Habana. The lower level is now occupied by Mash at Blue Tractor – a beer, whiskey and bourbon bar that specializes in the craft cocktail tradition.
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Restaurant / Bar News
Thursday, July 12, 2012
The Future is Now: Solar Thermal System at Arbor Brewing Company
The flying cars and the jetpacks never really thrilled me. I knew even before I ever stepped foot on an airplane that I would hate flying. And, hate on me if you must, but I love cars—always have and always will. Many of my childhood cartoons spoke of flying this and flying that and so to me, the magical “21st century” never looked all that awesome. None of that stuff really spoke of the future to me.
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Tuity Fruity: Recap of Arbor Brewing Company's Fruit Beer Tasting
For the longest time, I eschewed fruit beers. I’m not really sure why except that it might have started the first time I ever drank a Corona, which of course had the eponymous lime wedged into its neck. I remember thinking, “Huh! This is kinda good!” and then I realized that what was “good” was the freaking lime. (Speaking of Limes, is there a cooler dude than Harry Lime in The Third Man? I mean, that fat dude who sold no more wine before its time was spot on in that role…spot on).
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