When I was growing up I really enjoyed chocolate ice cream, and when my parents bought me ice cream that was what I always got. We frequently visited my grandma down in Lincoln Park and she always had Neapolitan ice cream in the freezer, so everyone had something they liked. Read more…
On the Beer Tour Guy Show Episode 9, we talk to Lee Roumaya, the owner of Fillmore 13 Brewery in Pontiac. Listen in for a one on one interview and learn about the yummy beers they are making!
Randy Marsh and his band of Confederate reenactors needed a little extra energy and alcohol to continue there brave and historically inaccurate conquest of Colorado. They turned to the power of S’mores Schnapps and its ability to get them blasted drunk. Short’s has thankfully spared us the Schnapps part, but Read more…
Bell’s just released Hopslam Ale, which means its time for me to drive to all my favorite liquor stores and pester the owners for release dates and times. Like many limited release beers, this one comes in and barely gets settled on the shelf before it is gone, and for Read more…
Welcome to 2018 beer lovers! I wanted to start out the year with something refreshing and complex. I landed on Brewery Vivant’s Triomphe, which is a Belgian Style IPA. I recently took a trip to their taproom out in Grand Rapids and I can’t remember having a bad beer there. Read more…
On this Episode, the Beer Tour Guy interviews David Youngman, the head of Marketing and manager of the public taproom for Rochester Mills Beer Co. He talks about his start in the industry and all of the fun projects that the brewery has in store 2018!
Myths surrounding the enigmatic Russian monk Grigory Rasputin have managed to survive to the present day. He supposedly had mystical powers that allowed him to survive being poisoned and shot, before succumbing to death after being thrown into a river. While the truth is certainly less interesting, North Coast Brewing Read more…
On this episode, Steve interviews Paul Star of I’m a Beer Hound. We discuss how he got started in the beer industry and what he is up to now.
It’s Christmas time and with it has come the first accumulation of snow and my annual cold. I apologize for skipping a week, but everything tasted like cardboard and off-brand cough syrup. Since it is the holiday season I picked up Weyerbacher’s 20th Anniversary Ale. It is a Belgian style Read more…
Trust me, anything with the word ‘Lazy’ in the title gets my attention. Lazy Hiker Brewing Company is in North Carolina and I’m starting to think this neck of the woods is a pretty good source of some good craft beers. The history of the junction of North Carolina / Read more…
