Archive for January, 2009

Winter Festival Hotel Suggestions

Monday, January 26th, 2009

If you are looking for overnight accomodations for the Winter Beer Festival, some suggestions are listed below. Be sure to mention the Michigan Brewers Guild Winter Beer Festival to get the specified rate. Rates are not guaranted and are subect to availability and hotel policies.
Comfort Suites Grand Rapids North
616 785 7899
$89.99 per night based on [...]

Winter Festival Tickets on sale now

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Tickets for the 4th Annual Winter Beer Festival at Fifth Third Ballpark are now on sale. In addition to on line sales, tickets can be purchased in advance at participating member breweries and select retail outlets. Here is a current list of tickets sales outlets:
Whitecaps box office in Comstock Park
Rochester Mills Beer Co. in Rochester
Olde [...]

Buy Tickets HERE for Michigan Winter Beer Festival 2009

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Fifth Annual Michigan Winter Beer Festival
at Fifth Third Ballpark, Comstock Park (just north of downtown Grand Rapids)
February 28, 2009 from Noon - 5:00 P.M.
Taste a wide variety of more than 300 specialty beers brewed right here in Michigan. The Great Beer State!
Tickets: $35 in advance (Includes 12 drink tokens) and are available online [...]

Kalamazoo bus trip to Michigan Brewers Guild’s Winter Beer Festival is taking passengers

Monday, January 19th, 2009

by KalamaBrew Staff
Monday January 19, 2009, 12:00 PM
Jonathon Gruenke / Gazette
Josiah Benjamin of Hastings samples a beer during last year’s Winter Beer Festival.GRAND RAPIDS — Kalamazoo homebrewers Chet Emmons and Colt Dykstra are again organizing a bus trip to the Michigan Brewers Guild’s Winter Beer Festival Feb. 28 at Fifth Third Ballpark.
The bus will leave [...]

Michigan Brewers Guild Announces 2009 Board of Directors

Monday, January 19th, 2009

The Michigan Brewers Guild elected its 2009 Board of Directors at its annual meeting, January 15 at the Radisson Plaza Hotel in downtown Kalamazoo.
Eric Briggeman, Brewmaster at Rochester Mills Beer Co. in Rochester, was appointed to his second year as Guild President. He has been on the board for six years.
Steve Berthel, Brewmaster and [...]

Breweries of Northern Lower Michigan, Chapter 1

Friday, January 16th, 2009

Michael and Kelly explore Northern Lower Michigan’s Craft Brewery scene. In this first chapter, the brewers explain some of the science behind what they do… in the name if beer!
Breweries Visited
Right Brain Brewery
Short’s Brewing Company
Mackinaw Brewing Company
http://www.mynorth.com/My-North/January-2009/Breweries-of-Northern-Lower-Michigan-Chapter-1/

Chill Out at the 2009 Michigan Winter Beer Festival

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

Fourth Annual Event to be Held at Fifth Third Ballpark, February 28
WHO: Michigan Brewers Guild
WHAT: 4th Annual Winter Beer Festival
WHERE: Fifth-Third Ballpark – Comstock Park (just north of downtown Grand Rapids)
WHEN: Saturday, February 28, 2009 (Noon-5pm)
WHY: To celebrate Michigan’s craft beer industry and the winter season!
INFO: Tickets are $35 each in [...]

Winter Festival Tickets

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Tickets for the Winter Beer Festival which will take place February 28, 2009 were scheduled to begin January 1st. Due to a technical problem the on line sales did not open as planned but tickets are now available for distribution to brewery members who would like to sell tickets. The on line sales error should [...]

DETROIT NEWS: Michigan’s winter brews

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

Thursday, January 1, 2009
Melody Baetens: Glass Acts
Without a doubt, winter is in full effect. On the upside, however, Michigan brewers are rolling out their fabulous winter beers.
This year, Rochester Mills Beer Co., Dragonmead in Warren and Woodward Avenue Brewers in Ferndale offer barley wine, which is fermented, like, forevercompared to other beers.
Dragonmead [...]