Alcona Brew Haus
Up North along the winding U.S. 23 Lake Huron sunrise side in Harrisville, the Alcona Brew Haus offers an appetizing variety of menu items,...
Boathouse Beer Co. & Boozery
Lifelong friends serve up tasty grub and brews with Tawas Bay views
Centennial Celebration
St. Julian Winery plays key role in the success of Michigan’s wine industry
Lake Country Sipping
Sampling new varieties of wine is a refreshing way to enjoy a delightful Up North afternoon, especially when you’re surrounded by acres of vineyards and the backdrop of a scenic 113-acre nature preserve.
Michigan Grown
There’s a good chance the hops in one of the Michigan craft beers you’re sipping this autumn came from a bucolic farm on the Leelanau Peninsula in the northwest corner of the mitten.
All in the Family
In many ways, Good Harbor Vineyards and Aurora Cellars are like sisters in a close-knit family but with different outlooks on life or, in this case, wine.
Grand Haven’s First Brewery Marks 10 Years with Big Expansion
Oddside Akes in Grand Haven began as small taproom serving small-batch brews. Today it is a major destination.
Raising the Wine Perception
William Schopf is a storyteller, though not in the traditional sense of taking pen to paper or tapping away on a keyboard to craft novels, short stories or screenplays (though he majored in English literature at Princeton University).
A Wine Grape for the Time
Geoff Frey’s palette was wowed when he sipped his first glass of Marquette, a red hybrid grape, during a wine event in St. Paul, Minnesota, nearly a decade ago.
Brews in an Igloo
By the time the first serious snow blankets northwestern Michigan, a village of igloos has been firmly planted in the barren woods behind the taproom at Hop Lot Brewing Co., an idyllic winter landscape illuminated by strings of glimmering white lights and blazing campfires.