This Michigan beer celebrates Black-owned businesses, family
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Brewer Kuma Ofori-Mensa and Five Shores assistant brewer Ellie Maddelein, collaborated on a new beer, Saldanha. They worked together with the Siren of Stout on this next release for the Black Owned Business series.Photo provided by Five Shores Brewing, used with permission.
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A three way partnership is resulting in a very special beer release this weekend. Brewed as part of the Support Black Businesses beer initiative, the beer, called Saldanha, reflects the African heritage of the brewer, while also raising money for charity.
“In December of 2020, I kept thinking, how can we support black owned businesses?” Barb Baker, known as the Siren of Stout, said. Baker is a beer connoisseur, and Vice President of the women’s brewing collective Fermenta. “I patronize a lot of black owned businesses, and I kept hearing that they weren’t getting the PPP or the PPE, and they
Gonzo’s Top 10 Michigan beers of 2020
Updated Jan 09, 2021;
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How do you pick a list of Top 10 beers in a year that was nothing like normal? Typically, I’m checking out new breweries and sampling as many Michigan beers as possible while out and about. What happens when there is no “out and about”?
This year my list is about those “taste memories” my colleague Amy Sherman likes to say shape our decisions of where to eat and what to drink. These were my personal favorites because they made an impression. They captured a moment in time during a year like no other.