2014 Traverse City Summer Microbrew & Music Festival Mark your late summer calendars, there is a beer and music festival getting ready for your visit. The 2014 Traverse City Summer Microbrew & Music festival is scheduled August 22 and 23rd at the Village at Grand Traverse Commons. Your standard admission ticket ($40 for a single… Continue reading
Cryptic Review: Try City Brewing Loons Summer Ale
There are certain days, when it it cool outside, and a great comfort is sitting in a warm spot, perhaps by a fire, with a dark, heavy, full bodied beer. And there are also those days in early spring, when the wind is cool, but the daylight warms you, when a sweet, light, flavorful beer… Continue reading
Stone Brewing Company’s Crime
Let’s get right down to it here. This beer is for people who like pain. Are you part Cenobite? This is the beer for you. While drinking this I tried not to think of the words “searing” And “flesh.” but how does it taste? To be honest I’m not sure. As I sit here sipping… Continue reading
Cryptic Review: Stone Sublimely Self Righteous
Maybe I am a bad Michiganian Michigander Mi..chi..gan…ite Northerner. But I hate the winter. I am already all set for March to come around and spring to start. Some people will say, “Oh as long as it snows on Christmas, that is all the snow I need.” That is close, but I don’t think that is even… Continue reading
The Can Stamp
I really can’t not share this because I think I could have used this item last weekend. What you see here is a simple (good) and fun(better) solution to a common problem. The ‘is this my beer?’ problem. This is The Can Stamp Now it is true, this product is not for every occasion. I… Continue reading
Samuel Adams Utopias Cigar
I had the pleasure of trying Sam Adams Utopias a number of years ago, and I was rightfully blown away. It truely is an experience I would recomend to anyone. The metal bottle, the strong aroma and the pleasantly palatable flavor all create quite the memory. And I was content in the fact that I… Continue reading
Where have I been these past months
So it sure has been a while hasn’t it? well I would like to welcome you back to the new and improved This Week In Beer! So I have spent the last few months streamlining the website and cutting out much of the fat (no one really used that map anyway). So hopefully this new… Continue reading
It Goes Together Like Beer and Baseball
Is that a saying? it really should be if it isn’t. and you really don’t have to be a regular at Thirsty Thursday to know it. But do you realize how interconnected beer and baseball really are? If you are curious, or even if you aren’t curious yet, you might be interested in this. The… Continue reading
Cryptic Review Dark Horse Kmita Kolsch
A Cryptic Beer Review I bet you thought you would be going without any beer reviews again for a while. Well fear not my friends because I haven’t forgotten you, and the beer will keep flowing here and the beer reviews will keep being posted. Case in point, this particular cryptic beer review from me,… Continue reading
Cryptic Review: Brewery Vivant Escoffier
A Cryptic Beer Review Sometimes I find a beer to review that has a certain, experience, to it. I don’t mean the bottle of rolling rock that has been sitting in the back of your dad’s fridge for years, watching the leftovers get moldy and the milk go bad. That beer may have plenty of… Continue reading