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Atwater Decadent Chocolate Ale 5.5% ABV — Atwater’s Decadent is a strong brown chocolate ale that pours with a huge nitro head full of carbonation. The color is brown and caramel-like. As you raise the glass to your nose, there is a strong chocolate aroma with some smoky qualities. The brew is heavy on the chocolates and ma ...

TRAVERSE CITY — When craft beer is aplenty, a beer festival needs to make a unique statement; it needs to provide enthusiasts with new opportunities and experiences. This year’s Traverse City Microbrew & Music Festival, held on Friday and Saturday, did not disappoint. The Microbrew & Music Festival has continued to evolve in ...

For the second straight year, Founders has collaborated with ArtPrize to produce a beer specific to the world’s largest art event. The beer, Mosaic Promise, was highlighted during ArtPrize on Tap on Wednesday night at Founders. The brew will be released in bottles at Meijer stores throughout Michigan on Sept. 14, and released elsewhere on ...

Style: American Amber Ale ABV: 5.8% Glassware: Nonic Pint Appearance: Certainly not clear but not exactly cloudy either. As I’m drinking I notice that it has a chill haze because the brew cleared up after I let it warm up for awhile. The beer has an off white to tan colored head and a beautiful sienna colored body. Aroma: A crisp, c ...

GRAND RAPIDS — Class is in session. Everyone find a seat. Take out a pen. Please don’t drink any of the beer in front of you just yet. This is no back-to-school dream. This is reality, thanks to the new Founders University courses, now enrolling for the fall. Last Tuesday, Founders held its first “Sensory Perception” cla ...

No longer is Northport just a quiet village at the tip of the pinky. Northport Brewing, the only microbrewery in Leelanau County, opened its doors on June 25. And, with Lake Michigan in the background, community members filling the outdoor patio and excitement pouring into the streets, Northport Brewing held its Grand Opening Celebration o ...

Benjamin Isbell and Josh Chilcote of Harmony Brewing Company start the brewing of the brewery’s tree-themed beer, Sumac Attack. For the second year, Grand Rapids breweries will join together, creating a tree-themed beer for the Brewer’s Grove project. The project, in collaboration with Team Beer City and the Friends of Grand Ra ...

Tell me about yourself and how you came to be involved with Atwater. Jeff Levine: “I started, like a lot of people did, home brewing in the ‘90s. I was actually living in Ohio at the time and moved back to Michigan and stumbled upon Dragonmead. They weren’t even open yet but they were putting all of the equipment in. They ...

GRAND RAPIDS — Sometimes, siblings are so inseparable the only thing that comes between them is one particular beer. Chat with Jacob and Sarah Derylo, brother and sister separated by three years, the friendship is obvious. There’s a natural bounce to their conversation, mostly supported by Sarah’s tendency to speak for Jacob. ...

Today many beer lovers will celebrate IPA Day, a beer holiday of monumental enjoyment for hopheads around the world. IPA — which stands for India Pale Ale — is a beer style encompassing characteristics such as a resinous, citrusy, floral, piney smell and taste due to the hops used in creating it. Established in 2011 by social m ...