WIDR Sliders & Brew Craft Beer Tasting Returns to Kalamazoo Beer Exchange

On Sunday, April 29th from 2-6pm, fourteen craft brewers from across Michigan will join WIDR fm at the Kalamazoo Beer Exchange for the second annual WIDR Sliders & Brew event, a fundraiser for the non-profit, student-run radio station. Admission is $15, which includes nine tickets for sliders and samples, and a souvenir tasting glass. Additional sets of five tickets are available for $5. This event is part of the WIDR 60th Anniversary Celebration. Grown from the seed of an idea found in a single sip of craft beer, WIDR Sliders & Brew has nearly doubled in size in a single year and turned into one of WIDR’s most talked about fundraisers....

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The High Five Co-op Brewery

The Michigan beer market embraces many trends; from a focus on community action to the use of  locally grown ingredients and fostering great respect for the consumers of locally produced beer, Michigan craft brewing takes pride in the state from which it originates. Yet it still came as a surprise to me that Michigan was home to an effort to create the first Co-op Brewery in the Midwest. Employee owned and operated beer cooperatives are a brand new idea to the craft beer market.  To my knowledge, only one example of an open cooperative brewery exists, down in Texas.  From High Five Brewery's own web site, their organization adheres...

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