Every year, like clockwork, we celebrate the winter solstice in December. Kuhnhenn Brewing is celebrating this year by releasing 13 heavyweight beers. They will be on draft and your preorder bottles are ready for pickup. Wendy and Rob catch up with Eric and Bret on the night before their festival which begins December 20th and they still have a lot of work ahead of them.

Kuhnhenn website with more information!

Wendy and Rob prepare for Christmas with a little beer news and a lot of Christmas beer discussion.

39 Affordable Towns With the Most Craft Breweries Per Capita -- With some suspicious math but could help with planning a move or vacation.

MLive's Analysis of the brewery scene in Michigan with parallels to the US.

The Michigan Craft Beer Community on Discord.

What Christmas beers are you looking forward to? Let us know!

Wendy and Rob talk with Carmen Amato, author of the Galliano Club book series. This series takes place in upstate New York (Rome, NY is the inspiration) during prohibition. Beginning as a murder mystery and continuing as a power struggle for different factions related to the distribution and consumption of alcoholic beverages (such as beer, of course!). We ask Carmen about her research into this series and learn a few things about bootlegging during prohibition.

You can learn more about the Galliano Club books and Carmen Amato at her website.

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