| Devon And Jeff Drink The Great Lakes |
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Hi all you Craft Beer Drinkers! For those that haven't checked out the forum, we've begun our Journey out to the midwest! We're on a 10 day, 2300 mile journey that will take us to 7 breweries where we'll be talking with brewers and owners. Our schedule is as follows: Friday Sept 7th We're on the road, but we'll do our best to give a brief daily recap of where we are and what we're doing, so check back often. Following the trip we'll have some great interviews and beer news for you all!
Day 1: Wed Sep 5th - We rolled into Buffalo, NY around 1am and set up camp...time for sleep Day 2: We left Buffalo around 10am and rolled into our campsite in Michigan around 3 after a LONG Journey through Canada...wow that's a boring drive but it's all ok now because we just picked up an awesome selection of beer from both Bell's and New Holland which we'll be sampling tonight. We're gearing up for a big day tomorrow speaking with both Jolly Pumpkin and New Holland. We got some Expedition Stout, Double Cream Stout, Batch 8000 and Oberon from Bells and the Ichabod Pumpkin Ale from New Holland. We can't wait to try some of these! It's 7pm on day 2 of our beer road trip, and we still have yet to have had a beer! Oh well... Soon! Day 2 UPDATE: We have a leak in our front driver side tire. Uh oh! Luckily we found a Sears Auto Center open late, and they fixed it! That would have seriously messed up our interview with Ron from Jolly Pumpkin and possibly our New Holland interview. Day 3: We interviewed Ron from Jolly Pumpkin this morning. He's a really good guy! Unfortuanately, schedules changed and he had to brew this morning. But, being the good guy he is, he made time for us. We spoke about some new Bam Bieres, what's going on at JP and lots more! Definitely look for this interview when we get back to Boston! Right now we're sitting in the New Holland Brewpub. This place rocks! We're right next to the brew system. We're getting ready to do our interview, and just drank a couple of delicious beers. The Road Brewer was recently here too! Read about is here. Jeff had the beer... Delicious! We're coming back tonight, after the interview, to do some more "research" on this "Art in Fermented Form!" We have nothing to do now until Monday when we meet with Dave at Founders. We have a whole weekend to chill and drink Michigan beer. We'll keep you all in the know! We then shot over to New Holland to meet with Fred Bueltmann. Their Dragon's Milk is amazing and the Poet Stout...well it kicks ass. We'll have a great full interview up on this soon, including some cool info on craft spirits. We love craft beer, but we're certainly intrigued by craft whiskey, gin, and rum as well. New Holland is doing some very interesting things in this area. Day 4: It's our first day off, so we decided to roam around a little. And by roam we mean we went to Founder's. Holy crap the beer is good here, not that we need to tell you that. The bar is great. Our bartender Melissa was awesome and gave us the lowdown on a lot of the beers, ad eventually put the porter on for us...mmmmm...porter. Well by mid afternoon we reaized that we prob needed to stop drinking or we'd be drunk soon. We got some food and then headed over to The Hideout, an AWESOME bar that Randy, a guy sitting at the bar at Founder's told us about. When we came in Randy was at the bar already. Once again we had an awesome bartender. Melissa was really helpful in telling us about the beers they made. Their Imperial Stout is amazing, and is a must try if you are in the area. Day 5: Another slow day we went to a bar in grand rapids, Grand Rapids brewing and a local liquor store, basically we bought a lot of beer. Day 6: We're off to interview Dave at Founder's. This will be our third time at Founder's this trip (yeah it's that good...and we went twice on day 4)
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