2 things! Michigan and keg/bittling help.

Ok first thing is I'm curious if I keg my beers and then want to bottle then can I pour them straight in from the tap without adding sugar to the bottle? Another thing is I'm just curious who on this forum is from Michigan. I was just curious if there was anyone near me that I could compare ideas with etc etc I'm in lower michigan. I'm in lapeer which is near flint,davison,grandblanc.......

 

I am not from Michigan but you can do that with a special wand attachment. I am not sure what the wand attachment is but I know that they exist and friends of mine have done it. Basically you can not put the bottle up to the faucet and pour that way.

 

A huge majority of this forum seems to be from MI.

 

I remember one being called a "bottling gun" by a home brewer on youtube. The co2 tank powers it I think. It's like a pressurized bottling wand.

 

Michigan rules. Hey Lapeer, I grew up in Almont and lived in Imlay City before moving down south.

Here's a great thread about bottling from the keg.
http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f35/we-no-need-no-stinking-beer-gun-24678/

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Tons of great brewing going on in Michigan with places like Bell's, New Holland, North Peak, Jolly Pumpkin, Right Brain, Detroit Beer Co., Sherwood Brewing just to name a few. That has got to trickle to the home base!

To answer your second question, I'm in Macomb MI now (walking distance to a great homebrew store Cap N' Cork!), but grew up in Fenton which is in the Flint Metro League with the Lapeer schools.

 

It appears that those of us from Michigan are the largest geographic sector on this forum. There's over 500 of us on the Michigan Masher's Subforum alone.

 

I'm from Michigan and am currently living in the Communist City of Ann Arbor. I am not an experienced brewer tho

 

that's a funny one.

 

Well no offense to other states but Michigan is the great beer state lol. I was just curious because for all the people I know I only know a few who are into brewing and I don't know any any shops that are too close to here... Like we have lager mill in frankenmuth, cap n cork, and hop mans but there all over a hour away for me

 

I drive about 40 minutes to cap and cork.

Are you sure none of these homebrewshops are nearer?

Michigan Home Brewing Stores & Suppliers
(Alphabetically by City)

Clearview Draft Services
534 Robbin Avenue
Alpena, MI 49707 Map/Directions
Phone: (989) 354-5111

Leopold Brothers of Ann Arbor
529 South Main Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48104 Map/Directions
Phone: (734) 747-9806

Begick Nursery & Garden Center
5993 Westside Saginaw Road
Bay City, MI 48706 Map/Directions
Phone: (866) 323-4425

Home Winery and Supply Company
208 Main Street
Dundee, MI 48131 Map/Directions
Phone: (734) 529-3296

The Red Salamander
205 North Bridge Road
Grand Ledge, MI 48837 Map/Directions
Phone: (517) 627-2012

Siciliano's Market
2840 Lake Michigan Drive Northwest
Grand Rapids, MI 49504 Map/Directions
Phone: (616) 453-9674

Park Winery
15230 Charevoix Street
Grosse Pointe, MI 48230 Map/Directions
Phone: (313) 821-9463

Keweenaw Brewing Company
408 Sheldon Avenue
Houghton, MI 49931 Map/Directions
Phone: (906) 482-5596

Things Brewed
1062 Boardman Road
Jackson, MI 49202 Map/Directions
Phone: (517) 768-2739

Cork N Cap
904 Lansing Ave.
Jackson, MI 49202 Map/Directions
Phone: 517-784-0687
http://www.corkncap.com

Bell's General Store
355 East Kalamazoo Avenue
Kalamazoo, MI 49007 Map/Directions
Phone: (269) 382-5712

BrewGadgets
322 S. Lincoln Ave
Lakeview, MI 48850 Map/Directions
Phone: 866-591-8247
http://www.BrewGadgets.com

Materagaia Organic Brewing Supplies
333 N Cedar St
Lansing, MI 48912 Map/Directions
Phone: 517-242-2880
http://www.materagaia.com

Brew & Grow
32610 7 Mile Road
Livonia, MI 48152 Map/Directions
Phone: (248) 442-7939

Wine Barrel Plus
30303 Plymouth Rd.
Livonia, MI 48150 Map/Directions
Phone: (734) 522-WINE (9463)
http://www.winebarrel.com/

Pauly's Wine, Beer and Spirits Shop
11250 Fulton East
Lowell, MI 49331 Map/Directions
Phone: (616) 897-2669

Cap-N-Cork Home Brewing Supplies
16812 21 Mile Road
Macomb, MI 48044 Map/Directions
Phone: (586) 286-5202

White's Party Store
1001 North 3rd Street
Marquette, MI 49855 Map/Directions
Phone: (906) 226-6781

Dusty's Cellar
1839 West Grand River Avenue
Okemos, MI 48864 Map/Directions
Phone: (517) 349-5150

Eastern Shores Brewing Supplies
510 Pine Street
Port Huron, MI 48060 Map/Directions
Phone: (810) 985-3757

The Spirit Shoppe
3550 Gratiot Avenue
Port Huron, MI 48060 Map/Directions
Phone: (810) 985-8261

Daane's Wine & Liquor
8901 Portage Road
Portage, MI 49002 Map/Directions
Phone: (269) 327-5500

Fieldstone Winery
223 South Main Street
Rochester, MI 48307 Map/Directions
Phone: (248) 656-0618

Cork'n'ale-Oppermann's
2940 Midland Road
Saginaw, MI 48603 Map/Directions
Phone: (989) 797-8466

Keueenaw Brewing Company
10 Fourth
South Range, MI 49963 Map/Directions
Phone: (906) 482-1271

Adventures in Home Brewing
23869 Van Born Road
Taylor, MI 48180 Map/Directions
Phone: (313) 277-2739

Wholesaledraft.com

Utica, MI 48317 Map/Directions
Phone: 1-888-393-2203
http://wholesaledraft.com

Kuhnhenn Brewing
5919 Chicage Road
Warren, MI 48092 Map/Directions
Phone: (586) 979-8361

Hopman's Beer & Wine Making Supplies
4636 West Walton Blvd.
Waterford, MI 48329 Map/Directions
Phone: (248) 674-4677

Michigan Brewing Company
2582 North M-52
Webberville, MI 48892 Map/Directions
Phone: (517) 521-2337

Things Beer
2582 North M-52
Webberville, MI 48892 Map/Directions
Phone: (517) 521-2337

U-Brew Homebrew & Winemaking Supplies
1486 Washtenaw Ave
Ypsilanti, MI 48197 Map/Directions
Phone: (734) 337-2015
http://ubrewmichigan.com

 

Leopold brothers was closed back in 08. Adventures in Homebrewing is supposed to be opening a second store in that area though. It's a bit far from Lapeer though.

I've heard Hopman's is good but I don't think it's a straight shot from Lapeer. Might be closer than cap and cork.

 

It does suck to live so far away from a quality HBS. However, if you are like me, you want to support Michigan businesses and try to improve the sorry state of our economy. Adventures in Home Brewing is a Michigan company that has online service. They are opening here in Ann Arbor as they expand their customer base. It is still at least an hour drive for you.

 

There is the Lager Mill in frankenmuth..... they have an decent selection..... I live in Caro which is about 40 minutes north of lapeer..... I also belong to the Lapeer Area Brewers.... check us out www.lapeerareabrewers.com we meet the 3rd sunday of the month at the Lapeer VFW on Daley Road @ 3pm

 

I'm down in Westland and go to Adventures in Homebrewing for most of my supplies. I wasn't aware that Brew and Grow was open on 7 Mile. I thought they closed shop when they closed the 8 Mile location.

 

Hahaha I have been talking to mike Mullins for about a month now he's been helping me do my first brew I made a American cream ale and a canadian blonde 5 days ago I weasel so worried that they weren't gonna turn out cuz the cream ale was like green when I put it in the fermentor and it just today started to slow on the fermentor and it's now a nice gold color.

 

Also very funny my fiancé is from fair grove and I dislike lager mill I went in there and they didn't have much when it comes to brewing supplies

 

I got a buddy in Lapeer. If you see an old biker wearing a fedora and smoking a cigar, it's him.

 

Michigan (Downriver) checking in. :rockin:

I'm spoiled. I have 2 LHBS to choose from, one 10 min away (Great Lakes Homebrew Supply) and the other 20 min away (Adventures in Homebrewing).

 

Grew up in Ypsilanti, home of Beerfest and now live in Dearborn about 5 min from Adventures in Homebrewing which is also on the way home from work if I feel like taking 94.....very dangerous.

 

Well, I grew up in Oxford, just south of ya, but since I now live in Tacoma, I'm not much help.