Category Archives: Breweries & Wineries

Michigan Brewers Guild Winter Beer Festival

February 15, 2008 – 7:29 pm

The 3rd Annual Michigan Brewers Guild Winter Beer Festival is scheduled for next Saturday, February 23, 2008. This year the event moves from Lansing's Old Town to Fifth Third Ballpark in Grand Rapids. It's a mostly outdoor celebration of Michigan Beer featuring 25 of Michigan's finest breweries and over 150 varieties of Michigan-brewed craft beer. [...]

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February is Dining Month on Absolute Michigan

February 1, 2008 – 9:16 am

Crab Rangoon by Shawn Botruff
(chef who made this at the Bluebird)
For the month of February, we'll be focusing on dining in Michigan. Starting Monday, we'll be offering daily profiles of restaurants. We'll begin with diners and dives, check out some casual and family restaurants, dress up for fine dining and sample some of the great [...]

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Michigan February Event Calendar

January 28, 2008 – 9:03 am

Our Michigan February Event Calendar seems to demonstrate that the more the weather tries to keepDownload free cingular ringtone, cingular wireless, download free cingular music ringtone! About Me Name: cingular sprint ringtones View my complete profile. us bottled up, the more innovative ways [...]

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Michigan Restaurant profiles

January 10, 2008 – 7:29 am

Frank's Restaurant by meanmustard1982
In February we'll be focusing on Michigan dining and cooking all month.
Every day, we'll profile a Michigan restaurant and we're hoping that you'll recommend some of your favorites in the comments below or by email.
From diner to four star restaurant and Detroit to Menominee, we want to offer up a palate-pleasing buffet [...]

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Michigan Books: From the Vine: Exploring Michigan Wineries by Sharon Kegerreis and Lorri Hathaway

January 10, 2008 – 7:09 am

Today's Notable Michigan book is From the Vine: Exploring Michigan Wineries by Sharon Kegerreis and Lorri Hathaway published by the Ann Arbor Media Group. The 192 page, coffee table book does a great job of taking both those new to Michigan wines and those who know a lot about them closer to the wineries and [...]

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Taste the Passion - a celebration of Wine, Chocolate & Love

January 9, 2008 – 10:16 am

The Leelanau Peninsula Vintners Association invites you to celebrate Valentine's Day (and wine and chocolate) at their annual "Taste the Passion" wine tour held February 9-10.
The weekend features special pours and tasty chocolate treats and many of the wineries along the wine trail are hosting special events including snowshoeing, cross country skiing, evening parties, a [...]

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Five things you need to know for Wednesday, November 14, 2007

November 14, 2007 – 11:20 am

Downtown, down the hatch, downriver, downstream - I'm sensing some kind of a theme here...

Quicken Chooses Detroit Yesterday's Detroit News reported that Quicken Loans has chosen to move its headquarters to Detroit:
The move, pending yearlong studies of the former Hudson's site on Woodward and vacant Statler Hotel site, would consolidate at least 4,000 employees in [...]

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Michigan November Event Calendar

October 22, 2007 – 9:48 am

Parade 2 by joojanta
Here's a few Michigan festivals & events for the month of November. As usual, there's no way to get them all, so please add links and information about the one's we've missed (or reviews of ones we have here) in the comments below.
October 26 - November 18
C.S.Lewis Festival - Petoskey
A four weekend [...]

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Five things you need to know for Wednesday, October 10, 2007

October 10, 2007 – 8:06 am

Welcome to a special "Big Wednesday" edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan.
Big Surf in Grand Haven
The Grand Haven Tribune has a feature on meteorologist Will Beaton, who has realized his life-long dream of surfing and reporting weather at the new web site surfgrandhaven.com developed by Masana, LLC of Grand Haven. The [...]

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Michigan Fall Color Tour: The Pictured Rocks

October 4, 2007 – 9:21 am

Miners Castle - October 2006
Let's jump over to the eastern side of the UP for the next color tour of Munising - Newberry - Grand Marais ... and the Pictured Rocks.
The highlight of this tour is of course the stunning Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore., (be sure to check out Lars Jensen's other Pictured Rocks galleries). [...]

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