The Shed Beer Garden Grand Opening June 3 Look around you my friends in the north. If you wander about Traverse City, Michigan you may just find a new Beer Garden to try out, The Shed Beer Garden. Personally, I love enjoying the out of doors while partaking a refreshing brew. There is really something about the fresh… Continue reading
Nostalgia is a funny thing. Something will worm its way into your mind, and then you will start to see it everywhere. The connection is often extrememly tednuous as well. Sure, sometimes itis obvious. Sometimes you hear a Cyndi Lauper on the radio that reminds you of that scene in Goonies when you can see the video playing… Continue reading
Welcome to a new feature that I am going to try out for a bit to see how it goes. I am going to pick up a sampler pack of beers from a single brewery and go through it one at a time, leaving my thoughts here for you all to read in order to… Continue reading
My brother used to have a poster on his wall called ship of fools (you can buy it here), depicting a group of ducks on a boat, singing and laughing away, blissfully unaware of the raging storm around them. Somehow this beer gives off the feeling that I imagine those ducks have. It feels like… Continue reading
If you have five and a half minutes to spare, and have ever thought about what goes into making that delicious brew that you like so much, you could find worse things to do with your time than check out this video. It comes from the PBS series It’s Okay to be Smart, where you… Continue reading
Sometimes you want to go… Just had to get that out of the way. Now this beer review has a little bit of background music going through your head. I have to admit a healthy amount of skepticism when approaching a beer with such a big name licensing deal going on here. It kind of stinks of… Continue reading
I seem to be seeing more and more beers lately that have a very… two-sided personality. These binary beers, tend to take on two characteristics, that are not always as complementary as the seem like they should be. It sometimes appears that the visual characteristics and the saporific characteristics are diametrically opposed. The point being that age… Continue reading
I hope you are all Having a great 4th of July. and I hope you are all celebrating with your favorite Michigan Craft Beer. One of my choices today was from the Belgian brewery out of Grand Rapids, Brewery Vivant. Standing tall and unique in Michigan with Belgian style beer in cans, Brewery Vivant is… Continue reading
Everyone can celebrate Michigan Craft Beer Month As we roll into July, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that this is the month that we celebrate, not only our countries independence, but our rich culture of Michigan craft beer. Michigan stands at #5 if the country in number of Breweries (including brewpubs). We… Continue reading
Today’s message is about two things. The great feeling of going out camping, and the importance of double-checking that the audio didn’t get screwed up in the video you just shot of yourself reviewing a beer whilst experiencing that nature. Oh, and the beer. Three things I guess. Mostly about the beer. But the audio… Continue reading