Oktoberfest Dinner & Brew Cruise on MI Princess

Motor City Brew Tours started the bike season off with a bang in May with their annual Cruisin’ for the Trail bike ride where they had record attendance of 600 people and was able to donate $6,600 to the Friends of the Paint Creek Trail.

On May 2nd, the Motor City Brew Tours held their “Cruisin’ for the Trails” event on the Paint Creek Trail and raised $3,100 for trail improvements.

In May, we're offering 3 beer and popcorn paring events. The first will be held at REO Town Pub in Lansing on Monday, May 12th. In honor of American Craft Beer Week which May 12th to May 18th we'll be featuring New Belgium Brewing Company which is our first non-Michigan brewery. This event will feature popcorn from Cravings Gourmet Popcorn out of Old Town, Lansing.

97.9 GRD, Channel 95.7, Classic Hits 98.7 WFGR, 100.5 The River and 1410 The Touch are celebrating the great tradition of Oktoberfest and ArtPrize during the first annual Oktobeerfest on Saturday, September 21, at The Intersection. The event will feature a variety of seasonal Oktoberfest and Pumpkin Ale beers from microbreweries including Sam Adams, Perrin, Arcadia, Frankenmuth, Rochester Mills, New Belgium and Summit.

Under the Solstice Supermoon, New Belgium Brewing’s Clips Beer & Film Tour raised more than $13,500 for the Greater Grand Rapids Bicycle Coalition on Friday, June 21. About 1,000 people came out to Ah-Nab-Awen Park to sample beers and enjoy films.

February 2013 brought the 4th Annual Winter Microbrew & Music Festival to Traverse City, MI with plenty of food, music, and brews. Over 50 breweries from around the world featured over 200 different beers, ciders, and meads spread out among the festival’s several tents. Not just a beer festival, the focus also included dozens of bands including one tent featuring exclusively polka for the entire duration and also a multitude of food vendors offering everything from venison specialities to hot dogs, veggie chili, gyros, ribs and more.

Today, October 26th, both Reno's locations will be holding a New Belgium Tap Takeover to celebrate the brewery's new draft beer presence in the Michigan market. If you are unfamiliar with New Belgium, they began brewing European style beers in the early 1990's out of Fort Collins, Colorado and have steadily grown into one of the country's most popular, innovative, environmentally friendly, and people-first micro-breweries in the country. They have built a strong and fierce following in many different markets by sticking to those simple virtues...and by brewing some really damn good beer!

The fourth annual Detroit Beer Week is currently underway. This event is aimed at celebrating the great city of Detroit in a positive way by bringing people together through beer and good food. It's also a great chance for people to experience some of the unique bars and restaurants throughout the city and to grow awareness & appreciation for these local businesses. This year will be similar to the rest in that it will be chock full of fun events, and the World Series coming to The D is certainly an added bonus!