Today's jaunt starts off at greenbush brewery... I felt i needed to be random and finally get out to this place, it's starting accounts around chicago, but i need sort of a "this is what it tastes like at the brewery" base to know if the beer is worth drinking in my area.

Greenbush had on like 16 or so beers, and i went in and had their sampler, with some extra samples.

Standouts for me were the Distorter (porter) and the closure which was the pale... they also had an old fashioned styled beer, i think was called LSD. That really was an interesting beer, something not the everyday.

The interior of the place is kinda fun... they have a handful of retro stuffs old ab/blatz/schlitz stuff but not everywhere, just thrown in here and there. I don't think i'd like to see this place busy as capacity is like 30ish people. I like the swag, tho i'll get some down the road, been on a swag buyin frenzy lately. Really impressed with the amount of specialty glassware this place had, maybe 6 different styles of glassware.

the cheese sammy is good here, they use 4 kinds of cheese and you get chips and a pickle.. it helped drinking the 60 oz of beer i took down at greenbush.

The patrons provided good conversation and that's the mark of a successful brewery. Folks who are there to have a beer, sit and enjoy... like minded is easy pickins here. all in all i'd go back or stop back from a michigan jaunt.

as for easy access, it's right off the highway, same stop as the lions den. exit 12.

From there i headed toward st. joe/benton harbor. I had left early in the afternoon and had spent maybe 2ish hours just chillin at greenbush, chatting with the patrons and bartenders and brewers and stuff. And down the road another 12ish miles is the livery...

I like hitting the lighthouse that's off the st. joe pier... so here's some shots.

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But as the sun set and my fingers fell off again, it was time to revive with beer at the livery...

I originally went to the livery before the lighthouse to grab this fine action shot, came back and it was a bit darker...

The livery is the basement brewery, with the upstairs bar and stage. I really like basement, it's comfy, it has enough vintage and modern swag to keep the eye roaming, there's a small sandwich station down there besides the bar with its dozen and change taps...

Only had 2 beers here and some samples, but what i had was quality.

Started off with their special bitter, as i like to do at most places that offer a bitter... it's a challenging style. And this one was very floral with slight bitterness, but tasty nonetheless. The beer that caught my eye was the barrel aged farmhouse... merlot barrels with brux. Everyone's usin brux these days and I couldn't be happier, fav strain of brett.

The sourness in the farmhouse was considerable, puckerable... most impressive livery.

On big brew day they had around 25 people brewing at the livery, and they beer competitioned that brew day beer at a later date... the winner was a robust porter... it was tasty too. Had spent grain pretzel bites with homemade honey mustard... yum. those were dense as fuck and really held things down as far as an app is concerned.

They were gearing up for their trivia nite and i finished my beer upstairs, don't usually get to sit up there so... a shot and i'm out...

and then a quick trip home stopping only at three floyds for a drunk monk, alpha klaus, and a moloko... cause who can resist moloko?

on the way to livery, ran into this americana... a dinosaur and the ten commandments? beat that!

and that ends today's adventure... up next san diego. 3 days of hard drinking.