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Drinking In Da UP – The Library

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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, [...]

Drinking In Da UP – Keweenaw Brewing Company

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“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.

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For you geography buffs, [...]

Drinking In Da UP – Marquette Harbor Brewery

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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 [...]