Tour-a-palooza!
Folks, it's been too long since I hollered at you - my apologies. But it's for a very good reason: I've been too busy guiding brew tours...
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John from MBT
- Mar 13
- 2 min
C'mon, winter! Give us a break!!!
A great group of guests, a stellar variety of tour stops, and a blustery day that made you question your life choices. Saturday's "The...
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John from MBT
- Mar 11
- 1 min
We're back, Ferndale! We're BACK!!!
Old friends, new tour, GREAT beer and mead! We here at Michigan Brew Tours are excited to be returning to a couple of our favorite craft...
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John from MBT
- Feb 27
- 1 min
A new tour is born!
In 2014, the City of Oak Park repealed a 1945 law prohibiting the sale of beer and wine by the glass - and there was much rejoicing!...
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John from MBT
- Dec 1, 2021
- 1 min
Tours are back!
We're back, baby! WE'RE BACK!!! Michigan Brew Tours is absolutely geeked to announce that we are resuming our public tours in March 2022!...
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John from MBT
- Nov 15, 2021
- 2 min
Beerchelor Party!!!
Eleven guys, four breweries, one van, a whole lotta beer. We at Michigan Brew Tours have been honored to be a part of many important...
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John from MBT
- Nov 7, 2021
- 2 min
A Summer of Getting Back Out There
As difficult and traumatic as 2020 was, 2021 has proven to be as challenging and often quite confusing. Masks or no masks, vaccination...
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John from MBT
- Dec 14, 2020
- 2 min
Happy Holidays!
Now, F**K OFF, 2020! It's been a long year, folks. I've joked in the past about certain years being best forgotten, but 2020 is unique in...
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John from MBT
- Jun 26, 2020
- 2 min
So, there's this virus going 'round...
It's been three months since Michigan Brew Tours ceased operations due to COVID-19. (BTW, the "19" stands for 2019, the year that the...
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John from MBT
- Mar 17, 2020
- 2 min
URGENT: Breweries need your help!
Let me start by saying that the Coronavirus can suck it. Moving on... During this time of global crisis, Michigan Brew Tours needs YOU to...
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John from MBT
- Mar 16, 2020
- 1 min
A note about MBT and COVID-19
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has announced that all Michigan bars and restaurants will need to be closed starting at 3 p.m. today....
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John from MBT
- Jan 16, 2020
- 2 min
Cocktails on ice
Ice storms be damned! There's booze that needed drinkin'! The latest installment of our popular Corktown Craft Cocktail Tour appeared to...
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John from MBT
- Dec 31, 2019
- 2 min
...and a Happy New Year!
2019 was a dynamic year for the Michigan beer scene: we welcomed some new friends and bid a teary farewell to others, but overall, a lot...
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John from MBT
- Aug 30, 2019
- 2 min
Founders doesn't need us anymore.
Following its sale to Mahou San Miguel, Founders Brewing is - sadly - no longer available as a tour stop with Michigan Brew Tours. The...
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John from MBT
- Aug 28, 2019
- 2 min
We had a Mead/Cider/Kombucha tour and "somebody" forgot to take photos.
A visually undocumented good time was had by all. Mead, cider, and kombucha - who could ask for anything more? (Well, we did squeeze a...
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John from MBT
- Jul 28, 2019
- 1 min
We had a Mead, Cider, Kombucha Tour...
...and some beer showed up. Our inaugural "unbeer" tour took place Sunday in Fashionable Ferndale. Kombucha, mead, cider, melomel, cyser,...
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John from MBT
- Jul 21, 2019
- 1 min
Heat advisory? What heat advisory?
Our tour group laughed in the face of triple-digit temps. The heat never had a chance. Yes, it was HOT. BUT the breweries were cool, the...
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John from MBT
- Jul 10, 2019
- 1 min
Go West (and slightly north), young man!
When newspaperman Horace Greeley coined the phrase "Go west, young man!", I happen to know FOR A FACT that he was referring to our new...
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John from MBT
- Jul 7, 2019
- 1 min
MBT takes Corktown by storm
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these [tour guests] from the swift completion of their appointed rounds [of...
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John from MBT
- Jul 1, 2019
- 2 min
Afternoon Stroll, Evening Cruise
Saturday was a hot one, but, man, was it a good time! Our first tour on Saturday was a stroll to three of Royal Oak's finest breweries,...
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