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o floors and quite spacious but still manages to feel cozy there is a sizeable bar flanked with tvs for those who don t have tickets to the game and many booths lining the wall upstairs has another bar and more tables which were completely packed with boisterous tigers fan on a recent visit despite the crowd the service was excellent and our waiter attentive and friendly the beers were likewise very enjoyable the beers 7 cs rye pa this is a hoppy beer that doesn t let the hop character overwhelm the rye flavor copper color citrus nose and smooth finish definitely rates up there with the finest rye pale ales hop rod red pleasant coppery red appearance and toasty notes highlighted this beer the malty flavor was well balanced with hops extremely easy drinking with a bite of hops in the finish cinq etoiles amazing example of a tripel the nose was a bit spicy and the beer sweet and easy drinking the body was extremely light for a tripel and went down smooth and easy belgian dubbel as with the tripel the dubbel really stood out the aroma was sweet and fruity and the body sweet less sweet than than the tripel but again very light for its style as such it went down well and complimented the other beers in the sampler the food the detroit beer company has a full menu of appetizers soups salads main dishes and desserts the brewery pretzel was good and the accompanying cheese dip made it excellent likewise the brewer s bread their pizza dough topped with garlic butter basil red pepper flakes and cheese made a great appetizer and complimented the beers very well it was savory but not too greasy and extremely filling the detroit burger was juicy and tasty didn t need any toppings likewise the motown philly detroit s take on the classic tasted fabulous who needs philadelphia anyway overall if you find yourself in detroit before a ball game detroit beer company is the perfect place to gear up for the tigers or wind down after the lions disappoint you once again and heck you don t need a ball game for an excuse to head down to the d just grab your taste for good beer and visit the dbc published in uncategorized on june 24 2013 at 7 54 pm leave a comment what am i drinking lots and lots of water folks cuz it s been freaking hot i did however manage to consume some beer last night after seeing a movie at the always amazing cinetopia film festival we wandered down to the blue tractor let me say that the beef brisket sandwich is excellent it really didn t need any of the sauces but i like their mustard bbq sauce so i slopped some of that on it i also wanted a beer they had an orange zest seasonal which was amazing but of course it was a wheat beer which i cannot drink i liked my taste of it so much that i was almost willing to risk a migraine for it almost instead i impulse ordered the demonic ale but i kept calling it denomic ale because sometimes i have trouble with certain words medicinal is often mecidinal to me i didn t get a sample or ask what kind of beer it was i just went for it and i m really glad i did from some internet research i found out that it is an american style black ale i don t know that i ve ever had one of those but this was a nice introduction dark dark brown in color spicy nose and small head on the beer the initial sip had sort of a fruitcake taste to it that i normally find in christmas beers it worked in the summer though it had a nice spicy finish and a good amount of hops not too hoppy in other words further research found some folks saying it is a black ipa if it was it wasn t very hoppy which is great for me because i am not a hophead whatever the case may be hop on over to the tractor and get yourself some published in uncategorized on june 10 2013 at 7 45 pm leave a comment yes virginia biercamp has beer now if i hear one more person say biercamp doesn t sell beer lol i will lose my mind a two second query of the google tells the interested person that this wonderful place specialized in artisan meats but fine yeah whatever bier is the name so ha ha where s the beer oh can t you imagine the ghost of clara peller asking that question in heaven where beer and beef have no calories well folks the beer is finally here biercamp started selling growlers a couple of weeks ago and you know that boyfriend ken and i were there on that first saturday we had our choice of a vienna ipa or a smoked porter and of course we chose both brewed by teo watson ahlbrandt these beers have something for everyone the ipa is definitely hoppy but did not overwhelm the balance of the beer the smoked porter had a nice hit of smoky taste before mellowing into a gentle porter there are two sizes for your take out beer 32 oz or the standard 64 oz quite honestly i wish more places would do this fun fact in florida they can only offer 128 oz or 32 oz growlers because apparently you can t buy two 32 oz ones to make your own standard size oy selections will be rotating frequently so hurry and try the two that are available now and the next time someone asks you why biercamp doesn t have any beer well send them directly to me published in uncategorized on june 5 2013 at 7 40 pm leave a comment dinner at lena one could say that i tend to be a creature of habit one could also say that i need routine in my life one could further say that any change of my behavior is merely the beginning of a new routine to supplant an old one this is certainly true when it comes to going out to eat i have my go to places arbor brewing company our dearly departed ann arbor pizza and subs the food co op and rarely break out of the mold unless i happen to be going out to eat with someone who picks somewhere else this is what happened this past weekend and how ken i ended up at lena a newish within the past year or so restaurant at the corner of main liberty what i consider to be one of the hearts of downtown note i am not now nor have i ever been someone who takes pictures of my food i certainly respect and admire people who are good at that sort of thing but i m not so i invite you to kick it old school and use your imagination to conjure up the dishes that i am about to describe for the appetizer i ordered the guacamole i m a late adopter of guacamole and am trying to make up for lost time by ordering it frequently the guac came with nacho chips which were not only good but had a bit of zest to them too often the nacho chip serves as merely a very high calorie device to get the guac into my mouth these chips had some sort of spice on them and they were warmed which made them an enjoyable part of the dish the guac had fresh cilantro scattered on top and it was good on its own but great when you got some of the cilantro on the chip for my main dish i got the beef brisket tacos which were excellent three corn tortillas beef brisket black beans rice cheese and an aioli sauce neatly arranged on a plate for just 11 i was completely full after eating them they were messy and fun to eat as tacos should be my cocktail was a raspberry fresco which was raspberry infused gin raspberries cucumber and raspberry infused ice i could have went slurp and drank it all down in one but i paced myself and enjoyed it it was kind of hard to drink through the straw the berries kept getting caught but that was a small price to pay for a drink that screamed summer in my mouth changing things up is hard for me for reasons i don t really understand part of it could be an anxiety disorder that has plagued me since i was a lass and finds comfort in routines and knowing what to expect in this case though screw you anxiety disorder because lena proved to be a very pleasant surprise john steinbeck said something about how it s hard to leave a routine even if you hate it then again i had to read that guy in high school and he kind of sucked so published in uncategorized on june 2 2013 at 5 05 pm comments 2 what i ve been drinking the past weekend took me to two somewhat nearby brewpubs liberty street in plymouth and fort street in lincoln park both were excellent beerventures serving up tasting beverages and nice atmospheres at liberty street i had my tried true steamy windows a california common style beer i briefly considered trying the new dopplebock but i knew it would be too much for me early in the day i generally like this style of beer which is an ale that is brewed with a lager yeast there is an interesting to me anyway story behind how this type of beer came to be the steamy windows is like a pale ale but with a crisp taste i always feel weird writing that you kind of have to taste it to know what i mean i picked up some hints of fruit and a low hop profile extremely easy drinking at 4 7 while at fort street i enjoyed their keppen farm stout i meant to order the imperial stout as that is one of my favorite types of beer but for some reason the milk stout came out of my mouth instead happily i enjoyed this beer it began with some chocolate notes and then mellows into a nice sweet well balanced brew light head attractive brown color light medium carbonation glad i made a mistake in ordering prost published in uncategorized on may 27 2013 at 6 36 pm leave a comment new holland tap takeover there is something special about tap takeovers there is an excitement in the air as people try new beers or enjoy old favorites the brewpub representatives mill about and share news about the brews and friends who haven t met in a while get reacquainted over delicious beer earlier this month i got to experience some new beers and a totally new to me bar in saline when i went to the new holland tap takeover at dan s downtown tavern the sheer number of available beers was impressive 12 of new holland s beers were available including the imperial hatter sun dog and the poet boyfriend ken and i got the sampler and each picked three beers my favorites are as follows 1 dragon s milk bourbon barrel stout seriously can this ever be bad i m beginning to think that it could be poured out of a monkey s behind and it would still taste awesome rich vanilla flavor along with roasty malts all wrapped up in an oak bow smooth and filling 2 did someone mention monkeys the monkey king saison was a new to me beer and a terrific example of the style fruity peppery and medium bodied this would be perfect on a hot summer s day 3 another beer i hadn t tried before was the paleooza this is an american pale ale which as a style are hit and miss for me some are just too hoppy and my opinion is dude if i want hops then i will get an ipa the paleooza definitely had a taste of hops but they didn t dominate and made for a solid easy drinking ale 4 pilgrim s dole to my chagrin i have found that wheat beers give me a migraine headache i know that causation isn t correlation but when you get migraines after wheat beers four out of four times well that s enough for me since this startling discovery earlier this year i have had to limit my wheat beer intake that is very sad when one is faced with a sampler glass of pilgrim s dole wheatwine the beer was sweet and malty with a warm mouthfeel i also picked up some hints of caramel and oh how i hope they come up with a cure for migraines soon 5 full circle kolsch if ever my day job becomes one of manual labor i want this beer with me light malts light hops and crispy all the way through this is the beer that i want if ever we revert back to an agrarian based society and i m up at dawn milking cows and picking up eggs or whatever special thanks to the one and only jimmy alcumbrack mcdaniel se michigan beer spirits ambassador for getting this together and being a terrific host prost published in uncategorized on may 25 2013 at 10 30 pm leave a comment strawberry blonde every warm day reminds me that summer is coming the signs are everywhere leaves on the trees daffodils on the lawn and arbor brewing company s strawberry blonde in my glass this past tuesday marked an annual rite of spring for me the yearly release of the most summery of beers some fruit beers forget what they are and leave you feeling like you are drinking an alcoholic red pop fortunately the strawberry blonde is one of the ones that does an excellent job of balancing fruit and fermented grains the nose gently entices you with the strawberry aroma the end is a slight hint of citrus the middle is malty goodness with strawberry and perhaps a hint of spice this tasty well balanced beer is over 7 a b v so go easy but if you want to experience some summer in a glass be sure to go to arbor or the corner and order this one up published in uncategorized on may 1 2013 at 7 22 pm leave a comment royal oak brewing company ken i found ourselves with a free saturday and also found out that the dia had free ann arbor people day they weren t like giving us away we got to go for free it wasn t a tough choice to decide to trek out to the dia to see us some art we spent a lot of time in the american art section and particularly enjoyed the modern art ken had a great query what separates modern art from contemporary art i don t know but one of them involves me staring at three red blocks stacked on top of a yellow circle and going come on section after we were done we moseyed up to royal oak naturally my spidey sense started to tingle at the all of the brewpubs but first boyfriend ken wanted to check out the salvation army thrift shop as he needs some new shirts he didn t find any but i found some new pants and wtf i had size x jeans on and they are huge on me but the only pants that fit me were also size x so am i size x or size x minus 2 fuck you women s clothes makers and a couple of shirts i was having a fat day anyway so i decided to change clothes and see if that helped it turned out that the royal oak brewery was right across the street from the shop and so i suggested we go there and get a beer and i could change clothes it turned out that changing into new old clothes was just the thing and i felt better when i got back to the table boyfriend ken had ordered a sampler for us bless his heart he had memorized the order they were in and recited them back to me i didn t have the heart to tell him that i could tell by how they looked he did such a nice job and it was so sweet anyway i have to say that i really liked every single beer on the sampler that is rare by the way as one usually blows here is what we had saison seasonal this was an excellent saison light and fruity with some hints of spices i could definitely see drinking this as i worked on the farm 4th street wheat okay recently i figured out that wheat beer triggers migraines so i could only have but a sip but what a sip it was not too heavy on the banana not too clovey if you can only drink a sip of a beer this was a good one brewhouse esb i ve been weary of esbs in the past as some just taste like beer to me this one was packed with flavor oh yes sweet but not cloying with a hit of hops yum northern light this was the gateway beer and the beer that my dad would have drank w...