Other than the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, that scene from Spinal Tap and that time they set the river on fire, most people probably don’t know a ton about Cleveland. Craft beer aficionados like you and I know it mainly for another reason: Great Lakes Brewing Company. After that, though, what else is [...]
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The grand opening of a new brewpub or brewery tap room often comes with it a bit of insanity. Everyone wants to go see the new place, drink the new beer, and get the lay of the land as soon as they can. After a day’s deliberation on what Half Acre has done with their [...]
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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 short [...]
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The first post in this series can be found here. 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. But you probably haven’t drank John [...]
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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 trend, but this particular plan has been in the works for oh, around [...]
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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 Smoker Chile Beer, [...]
~ read more ~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, [...]
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