Arbor Update

As always, please add in the comments section any events that I missed.

Please do not bring the Israel/Palestine conflict into the comments section for this post. This post has nothing to do with that issue. Thank you for understanding!

I’m envious! Of course, here in Kalamazoo we have Bell’s, just a mile from where I live, so I can’t complain. but what a line-up of events!

Mark, check http://www.mlive.com/kalamabrew/ for all of your Kalamazoo beer needs :)

I knew my support of Rebekah Warren for state rep was a wise decision!

I was totally thinking there should be an Ann Arbor Beer thing at some point. Glad the Beer Gods and Goddesses were listening!

What about Palestinian beer?

Glad you brought that topic up.

The West Bank has a rich history of beer consumption, including the renowned Palestine Beer Festival.

Here’s the link: www.nowpublic.com/palestine_beer_festival

The best beer I can remember was home-brew in a dry county in Tennessee; it was explained to me that the moonshiners would stagger to the polls to vote dry. So I suppose we should expect something similar from Muslim fundamentalists. Let’s hear it for Hamas beer and Taliban heroin!

We must be living in a golden age of beer. When I was not yet 21 and in college near Kansas City, Mo., the beer all tasted the same (vapid). The really big issue then was the alcohol content. Missouri had a drinking age of 21 and beer could be 5% alcohol. Kansas allowed 18-year-olds to drink, but beer was 3%. Bars on the Mo. side actually had banners out advertising 5% beer. The big adventure for me and my friends was to find someone with a car who would drive us to “Fritz’s” in Kansas City, Kansas, a family-type bar with wonderful hand-cut ham sandwiches and 3% beer that we were allowed to order without being 21. The beer was awful, but it was the thrill of the thing.

Hooray for microbrews!

Thank to those who followed my request. Good job!

That dry county information is interesting. While the county was not “dry”, the county that New Holland Brewery is in had a “blue law” that required it to be closed on Sundays. I understand that this law has been changed by the voters :)

I found another list of beer events…I got most of them, but there are a few more on here:
http://www.ashleys.com/a2beerweek.html

And again, thanks to those who followed my very simple request. I do have ways of making folks follow my edicts in my classroom, by the way…(cue evil teacher laughter) :)

I just wanted to tell you, Patti, that even though my earlier comment was removed, it did not fail to honor your request. Here was my comment –

The teacher’s request was about as effective as telling kids not to have sex or smoke pot (or drink beer, there, now this comment is on-topic).

As you see, I was referring to the fact that several of the recent comments had brought up the Israel/Palestine subject even though you had explicitly requested them not to. But I was not bringing up the subject, myself, so I don’t know why my comment was removed along with theirs. I even added a slight bit of humor, as my comment compared the futility of your request to that of the failed abstinence and “Just Say No To Drugs” programs. I thought the implied comparison of the rebellious commenters with the kids that just want to do the things they’re told not to – was also appropriate.

This new “aggressive moderation” policy on Arbor Update is hard to figure out. Why was my comment deemed to be off topic when it mentions beer, the subject of the thread? Did I piss off “the authorities” by implying that I was intentionally skirting the on-topic requirement by forcing the word “beer” into my sentence?

I agree that goilem’s comments were off topic. But (s)he was only responding to the earlier comment’s mention of “Palestinian beer”, which seems to have been brought up only to defy the teacher’s request. Yet that comment was allowed to remain…?

But to get back on topic, Patti, I visited your blog and I like your irreverent writing style and who wouldn’t like all the recipes for beer and food. I admire the fact that in this thread, you have resisted the urge to plug it, so I’m doing it for you. BTW, I live right around the corner from the Original Gravity in Milan, so if you pick up a few of their beers and you’re trying to guzzle them before you get back on the expressway – feel free to hurl the empties into my yard! :-)
(Wait, are drinking and driving jokes allowed here? That was sarcasm and I really wasn’t trying to encourage anyone to break the law or endanger anyone.)

Don’t forget this BEER event tomorrow, the 22nd!

From the Corner Brewery: Garden Party

Come and join us for a summer evening open house on the garden grounds of the Growing Hope Center . Tasty adult beverages are being provided by Corner Brewery. Donations are welcome but not required so please stop by and grab a beer and check out one of the coolest things happening right here in our community.

Host: Corner Brewery

Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Location: Growing Hope Center

Street: 922 W. Michigan Ave

City/Town: Ypsilanti , MI

Email: rene@arborbrewing.com

If you are on facebook, please use this link, http://www.facebook.com/reqs.php#/event.php?eid=112444343024&ref=mf, to RSVP to this great event!

re michael schils’(#14)… a fair minded and good post,( although in other contexts ive not always been a fan, nor he of me)….but re drinking and driving, sometimes one get’s the impression on this site that there’s alot of “drinking and posting” ( which is not totally irrelevant to my comments on the AU thread about the news/blogosphere)…anyway,the moderators are seemingly more attuned to that possibility than previously ;and although im a near-teetotaller i dont mind occasionally getting caught up in the net if the guilty are too.

Michael, thank you! We almost bought a house in Milan but we found out that my husband couldn’t fit in the upstairs bathroom. That sounds wrong so let me explain: he is 6’6”, normal weight…ceiling sloped way down and he couldn’t, er, make it work. Oh God now that sounds really bad. I’ll stop.

Thanks again Michael and yeah…no drinking and driving. We are taking the bus to the beer fest this weekend and busing/walking/crawling back home after. I handled one DUI case back in my law days and they aren’t playing. (btw, I didn’t delete any comments but trust my fellow AU’ers…I honestly haven’t paid attention b/c I’ve been too busy watching and praying that my school district doesn’t disappear).

Don’t drink and post either. Seriously. Take my word on that one.