New Beer Releases

New Beer Releases

New Releases The Good & The Not So Good By Mike Lerchenfeldt Beer is the most widely consumed fermented beverage in the world, and based on data from the Brewers Association, Michigan ranks sixth in the nation for the number of craft breweries. Which means this...
On Top On Scene

On Top On Scene

On Top On Scene Variety and Flavor Profiles keep Hard Ciders on Top By Rebecca Calappi / Photography Mike Ferdinande There’s something cozy about hard cider, whether you enjoy it on a crisp autumn evening, or snuggled up in front of a fire in the winter. Hard ciders...
Your Craft Crawl

Your Craft Crawl

Your Craft Crawl Spanning the Hills from Rochester to Auburn By Alexis Bohlinger / Photography by Mike Ferdinande While Michiganders used to have to travel far and wide to get “local POURS,” today the abundance of new microbreweries, wineries and distilleries makes it...
CO2 Shortage

CO2 Shortage

CO2 Shortage What’s Going On?   By Kenneth Konarzewski Jr. Better on Draft Kendall Jones, of the Washington Beer Blog, first reported in April of 2020 that the production of carbon dioxide (CO2) was beginning to slow down, which would cause a dwindle of (beer)...
Your Craft Crawl

Your Craft Crawl

Your Craft Crawl Cruise Your Favorite Local Crafters By Mike Lerchenfeldt / Photography by Mike Ferdinande Have you ever gone on a Pub Crawl? Well, the folks here at Local POUR are all about crawls, but we call them CRAFT CRAWLS. In our second edition, we thought it...