BY JOHN HOLL
(NJ) Star-Ledger Staff
WASHINGTON — For some, the difference between wine with dinner and beer with dinner has been compared to jacket and tie required versus no shirt, no shoes, no problem.
Wine aficionados have long known proper combinations, what vintage from what year goes best with what fish or meat. Sommeliers are [...]

The Brewers Association has announced “American Craft Beer Week,” May 12-18, and several Michigan microbreweries have planned special events to celebrate this growing industry.
Brewery: Fletcher Street Brewing Company
City: Alpena
Phone: 989-356-2314
Website: www.fletcherstreetbrewing.com
Description: Monday - $2 off Growlers & refills; Tuesday - Trivia Night starts at 7 PM; Wednesday - Hog Heaven Smokehouse Wings; Thursday - [...]

The following locations are selling tickets for the Summer Festival:
Arbor Brewing Company in Ann Arbor
Corner Brewery in Ypsilanti
New Holland Brewing Company in Holland
Kuhnhenn Brewing Company in Warren
The Livery in Benton Harbor
Rochester Mills Beer Company in Rochester
Gil’s Market in Kalamazoo
Crunchy’s in East Lansing
Right Brain Brewery in Traverse City
Sherwood Brewing Company in Shelby Township
Atwater Block Brewery in [...]

For those of you who haven’t seen the daily musings online at the new Kalamabrew blog…shame on you. Hop to it!
http://www.mlive.com/kalamabrew/

By David Farley, ForbesTraveler.com
Fragrant flowers, half-timbered windmills and friendly attitudes are just a few of the reasons travelers hit up Holland. But there’s another, just as kind, just as gentle land where wooden shoes and tulips rule: Holland, Michigan. Check in to the Dutch Colonial Inn B&B, which blends Midwestern hospitality with Old World atmosphere [...]

The Michigan Brewers Guild and Crystal Mountain Resort in Thompsonville are kicking off the summer in style at the 3rd Annual Michigan Beer & Brat Festival, planned for Saturday, May 24 from 4-8pm. As many as 40 Michigan craft beers from a variety of state microbreweries will be available for sampling throughout the day.
“The [...]

FROM APPLETON (WIS) POST-CRESCENT
May 7, 2008
Scotty Karate is aptly named for a 9.75 percent beer that kicked most of its competitors last fall by winning a silver medal for Strong Scotch Ale at the Great American Beer Festival.
Its strength puts it into a category that traditionally was referred to as a “wee heavy,” essentially a [...]

Categories: Executive Profile
Posted by John Turk | Oakland Business Review May 01, 2008 01:07AM
Although the words “beer” and “geek” might not seem to go naturally together, Eric Briggeman, the newly chosen president of the Michigan Brewers Guild, says those two words are what define most employees in the brewing industry.
Briggeman said he has a library [...]