MIchigan Brewery Updates for your Memorial Day

This weekend has a host of awesome events and news worthy beer stops for your memorial day celebrations.

For anyone heading to The traverse City area this fine memorial day, Jolly Pumpkin Artistry Ales will be hosting its grand opening in Mission Point on Friday the 22nd. Jolly Pumpkin is known for its routinely sour beers, which is a fermentation process of superior control. This expanse shows the popularity of these beers and also serves as a platform for more more experiments, both sour and non.

Also in the North Western is the 4th annual Beer and Brat festival at the Crystal Mountain Spa and Resort, Saturday the 23rd. Over 50 craft beers will be available from many Michigan breweries.

If your traveling to the Grand Rapids area, or anywhere South of that, you can stop by The Round Barn's "6 pack" release party on Saturday the 23rd. Another great crafter is making their mark in packaging and distribution. the Round Barn has grown extensively in their beer production process in the past few years. When I first visited, they only had a couple beers on tap. They are also a very good winery and produces of the popular DiVine Vodka.

If your stranded with a stay-cation this weekend, head over to your best Michigan craft beer supplier and look for two great new additions to the bottled arena. Dragonmead is now bottling its Armageddon Grand Cru in 750ml bottles. If your a fan of Final Absolution, which is a Belgian Triple, then you can up the game a bit with a Grand Cru, which is a Belgian quadruple. At 11.6% this is no joke. Also, Mount Pleasant Brewery is bottling. They are offering Railyard Raspberry Wheat, Coal Stokers Blackberry, Steam Engine Stout, Iron Horse IPA and the Cow Catcher Red Ale all in six packs.

A very exciting weekend indeed. I hope to find some of the bottled products for this weekends adventures!