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 KARL: It should come as no surprise that we like Shorts. Combine a minimalistic sensibility with an aptitude for amazing specialty brews and experimental fruit beers (paired with a little bit of demand from market limitation) and you’ve got a recipe for Shorts, and we like it. Despite being in Northern Michigan just a [...]  Yep, it's a barn. The first post in this series can be found here. KARL: It probably seems a little silly on the face of it to be spending a lot of time looking at trees and grass and an old barn and talking about the beer that’ll come out of this place eventually. [...]  Someday, all this will be beer. (Except that house back there.) KARL: The cool thing to do in restaurants for some time has been the farm-to-table movement, and in Traverse City, former Right Brain brewer John Niedermaier is currently building one of the first farm-to-kettle breweries. It may seem like a reaction to a [...]  Original Gravity says: “Amber Ale brewed with German smoked malt to give a pronounced, but well balanced smoke profile. Fresh Jalapenos added during several stages of the brewing process gives this beer the bold Jalapeno flavor and aroma that marries perfectly with the smoke flavor from the malt.” Original Gravity 440 Pepper [...] Karl made a jaunt to Chicago’s suburbs to look at some of the best brewpubs you may have never heard of. You can find his article in September’s Chicago Magazine, which is now available on news stands and online. Here’s an excerpt; Chicago’s beer renaissance focuses on city brewers such as Metropolitan, Half Acre, Revolution, [...]  If you follow my cobbled together guide of drinking your way through Houghton, MI, you have had a half-dozen beers or so (for very little money) over at Keweenaw Brewing Company. But now you’re hungry, still thirsty and in need of a change of scenery. That is when you walk out the door of Keweenaw, [...]  “It’s pronounced Kee-wah-naw,” the woman seated next to me said for the third time. I couldn’t quite wrap my mind around the name of the brewery or how a gem of a brewpub could be hidden away in a quaint town in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. from the outside, looking in For you geography buffs, [...]  Before visiting Michigan’s Upper Peninsula recently I knew four things about it. It was easier to get there, from Chicago, by driving up through Wisconsin than through central Michigan. Locals are called “Yoopers.” The local cuisine is a pasty. My wife spent the first 29 years of her life in Michigan and has [...]  If you missed it, you can find the first part of our look at Right Brain posted here. The other part of the pub, including the Mug Club wall – unfortunately not accepting any new additions right now. Yesterday we ran through a couple choices from Traverse City’s Right Brain [...]  I recently spent a couple days in Traverse City, Michigan. In a state that’s rich with excellent breweries, the Traverse area is particularly lucky to have not one but two restaurants with brewpubs (Mackinaw Brewing Company and North Peak Brewing, both with average to above-average beers) and a Jolly Pumpkin outfit up north on the [...] |    | ||
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