Ann Arbor is a trip
My sister Cheri and her husband Rechard have lived in Kalamazoo, Mich., for several years, and for at least a year or so we have been talking about visiting Ann Arbor together. Last weekend we were celebrating two milestone birthdays and decided that Saturday would be a perfect occasion for the day trip. I’m a bit of a Big 10 [...]
That good old bier
The latest in the ongoing series I Never Met a Beer/Cheese I Didn’t Like. Altbier or alt, is a German style that sits happily somewhere between an ale and a lager. The word alt translates roughly to old, and in German beer culture that also means ale—the family of beers that chronologically preceded lagers. Altbier is [...]
Welcome Firestone Walker
Chicago beer drinkers may have never had it so good. Three or four new local breweries have opened in the last couple of years, while extra-regional breweries are finding distributors here who can get their beers in front of the hop-thirsty masses. And now the two are happening together. In a couple of hours, Firestone [...]



















