December 2001

We ended up making a few different trips here.  This time we took Cheryl’s brother to try some microbrew. They have cook your own steak, kind of a bummer you pay $12.00 for a steak and cook it too.  To save $2.00 you might as well have them cook it for you.  Isn’t that what going out is for?  Wonder how many people burn them selves.  Another attraction they have is the Clydesdale horses and carriage rides. 

We all sat the bar and we shared a sampler.  The one we liked the best was Cleary Red and if they had growlers we would have filled it with this.  So instead we bought a 3 pack of 22 oz bottles:  Stump Sitter Stout, Cleary Red, and October Fest.

The brews here were average at best and we were surprised that the stout wasn’t better.   We tried the stuffed mushrooms and they were good.  At this time we were told they would fill a growler from somewhere else, unfortunately, we didn’t have a growler with us.

March 2002

The second trip here was for a family birthday dinner.  We thought this was a great opportunity to bring a growler for a fill.  They still had no growlers and would not fill the one we brought.  They were hoping to have growlers soon.  The food was okay, nothing real spectacular.  The steaks came with this huge pile of mushrooms and onions, so many you couldn’t eat them all. 

March 2003

Finally after making several, phone calls, they now have growlers on March 3, 2003. We were able to get one.   Cleary Red was the one we chose to fill it with.

Too bad they’re closed now after putting so much into the place.  There is a Hereford & Hops in Escanaba.  When we did our U.P. trip we didn’t go to this one, ended up being out of the way.

September 2005

We did a U.P. trip and hit the Hereford & Hops in Escanaba.  Click here to check it out.

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