We're in the last two days of voting for Beer City this year, and there's no better time to cast your vote! Now is the time! Remember, you can vote once a day on each web-capable device you own.

There is no question 2012 was great year for Grand Rapids and beer. A record number of brewery openings included Eastown’s Harmony, Mitten Brewing, and Grand Rapids Brewing Company as well as both Pike 51 and White Flame in Hudsonville, Perrin in Comstock Park and Rockford Brewing Company. Additionally Grand Rapid’s most successful brewery Founders celebrated their 15-year anniversary in style which included the release of their 15% Bolt Cutter Barleywine. But perhaps the defining moment in 2012 was the nomination and securing of the title Beer City USA in a tied vote along with previous year victors Asheville, North Carolina.

Construction continues at the future site of Arcadia Brewing Company in Kalamazoo. New details continue to be unveiled by Arcadia President, Tim Suprise, as the opening date approaches and the focus shifts from remedying delays to progress.

Grand Rapids Magazine-branded travel retail stores will be a part of a future construction project at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport. HMSHost Corporation of Bethesda, Maryland, will manage the project, initially planning to rebrand the airport’s current newsstand location as “Grand Rapids Magazine travel retail store” in June 2013. Two additional stores—one in concourse A, planned for completion in January 2014; and another in concourse B, with a planned completion date in June 2014—will also be part of the efforts intended to “localize” the airport.