by localpourmag | Oct 24, 2022 | 2022 Fall, Feature
Point of View with Sage Creek Winery By Gabriella Baldwin / Photography by Mike Ferdinande When pairing wine with food, it is very important to place your wines in the correct order of tasting. The perfect tasting order only exists in the menu creator’s mind, but...
by localpourmag | Oct 21, 2022 | 2022 Fall, Feature
Chilled to Perfection By Alexis Bohlinger Creating a cocktail takes the perfect recipe, the proper technique of crushing or muddling elements, adding precise amounts of liquors and even shaking or stirring to ensure proper mixing before serving in the proper...
by localpourmag | Oct 21, 2022 | 2022 Fall, Feature
Love is Honeymoon with Mead By Nick Lico / Photography by Mike Ferdinande Exact records do not exist, but it is thought that the first alcoholic beverage was not wine or beer, but mead. Made by fermenting honey mixed with water and sometimes adding ingredients such as...
by localpourmag | Oct 21, 2022 | 2022 Fall, Feature
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...
by localpourmag | Oct 19, 2022 | 2022 Fall, Feature
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...
by localpourmag | Oct 18, 2022 | 2022 Fall, Feature
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...
