This Week in Beer

For those of you who were wondering about the winners of the Great American Beer Festival, we have a link to the winners list here (pdf).  Looks like I have alot of good looking beers to track down now (if anyone wants to send me a couple bottles of Dude Where’s my Vespa?, I won’t stop you).  Congrats to a couple of Michigan breweries that won awards,

Arcadia for their gold medal in the Wood- and Barrel-Aged Strong Beer Category with Cereal Killer Barleywine,
Short’s for their Silver in the Experimental Beer category with Bloody Beer,
Big Rock Chop House for their silver in the Belgian-Style Lambic or Sour Ale category with Red Rock
Redwood Brewing for thier silver in the Sweet Stout category with their Cream Stout
Bells for thier bronze in the Bohemian Style Pilsener category with Bells Lager Beer,
Jolly Pumpkin for their bronze in the Session Beer category with Bam Biere.
Bastone for thier bronze in the French- and Belgian Style Saison category with Saison Du Bastone
and Kuhnhenn Brewing Company for thier bronze in the Old Ale or Strong Ale category with 4th Dementia Old Ale

Great American Beer Festival

This Memorial Day, Paul and I talked taxes, the economy, Michigan Craft Beer Month, and upcoming events.

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So to make it up to everyone for missing a week, Paul and I decided to give you a gift of an extra episode.  so for all of your Beerfest-Distribution-Oberon-StPatricks-March Madness-Twitter information, we have a new episode here waiting for you, enjoy.

Beernews.org article on breweries using twitter

National IPA Chapionship

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Sorry for leaving everyone hanging waiting for word on the Bells situation in mid-michigan, but we are pleased to say that we have an update for you.  To make a long story short, you will still be able to get your Bells beer here like you always have.  More information on this as well as this coming weekend’s Michigan Brewers Guild Winter Beerfest, Crunchy’s Brewer’s Nights, and Sierra Nevada Gasoline in this weeks episode of This Week in Beer.

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Michael Jackson, The Beer Hunter

Merry Christmas, and Happy Holidays everybody!  In today’s episode we bring you great breakthroughs, including beer from the stars, beer from the past, and beer from the fountain of youth.  We also discuss seasonal beers including one of our absolute favorites (we will even tell you what this guy here said about it.)

Music by Kevin Macleod

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