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January 21, 2007 - FINALLY, got all our cavern
pictures posted (click here). Next, is the beer
tasting from last summer in Bay City. Wow, are we
way behind!
January 12, 2007 - Added more links to the upper
left. We appreciate the links from other sites and
our monthly visitors. Now that the holidays are over
we have some more plans and will get them going.
Look for new links from Black Lotus and Big Rock Chop
House for starters. Still haven't posted our
visit to Maumee Bay in Toledo, OH, but here are some pics
for now. Maumee
Bay Pics, click here. And for the spelunkers (if
you like caves) check out the Mammoth
Cave National Park - and other - pictures (click
here).
August 6, 2006 - Added a couple more links on the left
where people have posted links to our website from
theirs. Will get our Toledo brewery visit posted
soon.
July 10, 2006 - Busy spring planting and taking
vacations, finally getting our Detroit
visit posted. We'll soon have more updates from
our visit to a brewery in Toledo, spelunking in Kentucky,
and the Bay City Beer Bash.
March 14, 2006
- Finally got the Royal Oak area
visit posted (click here). ALSO, we worked
hard on organization - if you go to the List
of Michigan Breweries (click here), we posted links to
our visits to each of the listed breweries (which is
pretty much all of them).
March
11, 2006 - Cheryl was looking at website this morning and
found we did not have ratings or try food at Royal
Oak. This was a big blonde moment since we have been
there twice before. So off we go to Royal Oak and we
will take Lily's and Bastone's growlers with us for a
re-fill. All 3 breweries are within 3 blocks of each
other.
March 2, 2006 - Cheryl updated several pages by adding
picture pages of interesting stops we've visited along the
way on our brewery tours. The links are at the top
left of this page OR click here to see the "Breweries,
inside & out" which has several inside and
outside pictures of our recent visits to breweries.
Or check out "Things
to do" which contains the sunken boat tour,
lighthouses, waterfalls, Belle Isle, and other photo
albums.
February 25, 2006 - Decided to take a road trip to
Detroit. Visited Fort Street & Atwater and took
the elevator ride to the 72nd floor of the Renaissance
Center. Check out the
details and pics here! We're up to 66 different
Michigan growlers
now!
February 24, 2006 - Stopped into Lumber Barons' for a
couple growlers. Art Dore asked us to post this upcoming
event - the Bay City Beer Bash. (click
here)! We'll be there for sure! Sample
Michigan brews!
February 13, 2006 - We made another visit to C.J.'s
(actually a month ago) and finally got to sample their
food - excellent! Click here to
see. Also, stopped in Lumber Barons and they
have a new Doppelbock on tap - very good, you must try it!
February 4, 2006 - Headed to Mt. Pleasant for another
visit to Mountain Town Station since it's so close.
We also wanted to try some more items from their menu and
see if they had any new brews to sample.. Check
it out here!
February 3, 2006 - Visited Lumber Baron's a couple more
times to fill some growlers - how convenient. $5 a
growler (64 oz) on Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Also, added a map to our U.P. trip to show the long
journey we took - 1300 miles! Click
here to see!
January 27, 2006 - Lumber Baron's now has
growlers! We now have 64! Plus
updated our growler group photo
(click for bigger picture, or click here)..
January 22, 2006 - Visited CJs again and tried their
food. Also, revisited Bonfire and Redwood Lodge
(will have a review posted soon). We've also been
linked from some other beer sites and have posted their
links on the upper left of this page.
January 13, 2006 - Added a link above to a list of all
the Michigan microbreweries - includes addresses, phone
numbers, and web addresses when available. Click
here to see!
January 7, 2006 - We were heading to Livonia for a
friends birthday and decided to stop at CJ's. They
now have growlers! We purchased two - one for our
friend and of course one for us. We now have 63
growlers! We also took more pictures - click
here to go to the CJ link to check out the pics.
Or click here to go directly to the picture page.
December 31, 2005 - Made a visit to Quay
Street Brewing Co. and Belle River (our friend Fred)
to make some reviews. Click above to see!
December 28, 2005 - Todd was passing through Bay City
and decided to stop at Lumber
Barons' (click here) to check on the porter.
Just came out TODAY! Yes, picked up a growler and we
shared it later. Definitely my favorite! 5
Stars! They will be starting "growler
night" soon. It will be Tuesday evenings and
you can get your growler filled for $5. The growler
shipment should be here in the next couple of weeks.
December 11, 2005 - Visited the new Lumber Barons'
grand opening in Bay City. (click
here to check it out).
December 4, 2005 - Visited the Traverse City Area since
we didn't have notes for North Peak & Mackinaw, nor
did we get to visit Traverse Brewing Co last time.
Also, visited Shorts again to get some more pics and try
more beers. We now have 62 growlers and Todd did get 2
more pint glasses and 1 more shot glass. (Click here for links - Traverse,
North Peak and Mackinaw,
Shorts)
November
3, 2005 - Went to the Cork 'N' Ale 11th annual fall beer
tasting. Click here to
check it out!
October 22, 2005 - Re-visited Kuhnhenn (they now have
growlers, Bastone (they now have good beer), and Lily's
(not on the website from loss of notes and we never ate
there). Click
here and see our ratings! Up to 61
growlers now! (click
picture or here for bigger pic)
Plus, we went to Bonfire (went there years ago but
didn't take notes), and Etouffee (brand spanking
new)! Click here and
see!
October
9, 2005 - Had to re-visit Redwood because we lost our beer
rating notes from 2004. Click
here to check it out.
October 1, 2005 - went to 2 new ones - the
Livery and Saugatuck (and a couple of revisits).
Also, knocked 3 more off the list in the Grand Rapids area
- Middle Villa,
Schmohz, and The Hideout - check out the links!.
We now have 59 growlers and 27 pint glasses.
September
24, 2005, visited MBC
again along with Jolly Pumpkin and Redwood Lodge
again. Check it out!
September
10, 2005, newest update resulted from a trip to the Upper
Peninsula - see the links to the right labeled 2nd U.P.
trip, parts
1 and part
2 - or click these links. We're up to 54
growlers, 28 pint glasses
-click for pic (6 of these are of one set from
Thunder bay - not all shown in pic), and still 6 shot glasses. We also took
new trips to Mountain Town Station and Sanford Lake Bar
and Grill.
April 8, 2005 here is the latest update on what we've
collected so far. 50 growlers, 22 pint glasses
-click for pic (still including the 6 glass set from Thunder Bay) and 6
shot glasses (not many breweries have the shot
glasses). We got 3 more growlers on the November, 04
trip to Old Boys, New Holland, and Via
Maria.
October 10, 2004 we
have 47 growlers. Darn, we only got 7 on our last
trip. We did have a change in plan - check out the
links for Old
Hat and Arcadia. The
November tour will take care of that when we visit New
Holland and Grand Rapids
Brewing will be a re-visit.
Sept. 11, 2004, we now have collected 40 growlers.
On our next trip we hope to get 9 more when we
visit the Kalamazoo
area.
When we first started this adventure the ultimate
goal was to get growlers.
We didn’t stop at the microbreweries that
didn’t have them. Since
then we have decided to tour all of them regardless of
growler availability.
In the beginning we didn’t
take very good notes and we have since lost a lot of them.
It is easy to do when you have them on napkins and
such. Starting
in 2003 we decided to make more effort into rating using
the 1-5 stars for appearance, beer, food, and atmosphere. We now write down every brew tasted and make note of special
ones we don’t.
When
available, we also try to collect match books, coasters,
shotglasses, and pint glasses.
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