Nice article Yooper - congrats. Have you checked out Black Husky Brewing - just over the border in Pembine, WI. Its a cool operation and they are doing some neat things, like the Sproose Juice double IPA that uses spruce tips from local trees.
http://www.blackhuskybrewing.com/
We have a place near Pembine and its always been hard to find good beer up there, but the Black Husky guy has given us at least one really good option in the area.
Oh, yes. They are actually really "good people"!
I had another topic that they deleted, about our local homebrew club, and about HBT. Both are important to me, of course!
My "local" club is way too big geographically so I don't go to many meetings (over 50 miles each way) but Tim and Toni are members (from Black Husky) and awesome people. Tim has offered me supplies and of course beer, but they are about 75 miles from me so I rarely see them. I'm not such a fan of Spruce Juice, but they have a fantastic APA that I consider one of my favorites in all of Wisconsin, and of course I've told Tim that! Really great people, and I highly recommend their brewery!
I blabbed about that homebrew club, and about HBT since I rely on HBT so much for all of my brewing information. But, somehow, all of that didn't get published in the article.