You don’t see this too often; an ad on Craigslist for a brewery. Well – believe it or not, there is one, and it’s real. MLive reports that Dan Humphrey, owner of the Michigan Beer Cellar in Sparta, Michigan, is ready to sell. “I’m looking to move on,” said Humphrey, whose son, Nick, recently completed [...]
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Today marks the beginning of the end for the palates of craft beer drinkers in southern Illinois; Stone Brewing Companies highly acclaimed beers are now available in the southern third of the state. The brewery recently inked a deal with Koerner Distributor, which is based in Effingham but also has locations in Carterville and New [...]
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The nation’s first Latin-themed craft brewery, who made a splash over the summer by luring John J. Hall from Goose Island to be its next brewmaster, will soon have its beer available at 15 Chicago area Chipotle restaurants. According to the Chicago Tribune’s Josh Noel, two of 5 Rabbit’s four year-round beers will be available [...]
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There are two interesting bits of information on the Illinois Liquor Control Commission’s mildly ambiguous meeting agenda for next week. The first is that the Commission will continue its closed-door, executive session from October 2nd – which was spent discussing the ownership fate of Illinois distributor City Beverage. The second is a footnote, nestled at [...]
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We get where the Associated Press was trying to go with a story titled, “World Series beer battle: Suds taps give insight into Tigers, Giants fans.” They wanted to highlight how different San Francisco Giants fans and Detroit Tigers fans are by talking about what beer they drink at the ballpark. Your typical Giants fan? [...]
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On October 18th, 1924, Grantland Rice famously penned an article about Notre Dame’s 13-7 win over then-dominate Army in the New York Herald Tribune which began: “Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death. These are only aliases. Their real [...]
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