Karl Klockars | Author

Brewery Terra Firma’s Vanilla Ancho

Oct. 29, 2022

For nearly 10 years, Brewery Terra Firma has offered a hard-to-say but awesome-to-drink beer: the Ancho Chile Dutch Double Chocolate Porter. It was among the first to hit draft lines and recently returned to BTF’s offerings. Unlike other beers, the recipe has never been tweaked&hellip… Read More >>

Hoping for Homes: Local humane societies share triumphs and challenges

Oct. 22, 2022

It’s been a couple of years since the phrase “pandemic puppy” entered our lives, and for those among us who helped empty the shelters and added a new pet to the family in 2020, it might be almost time for another Gotcha Day. But how are our humane societies and animal shel… Read More >>

West Coast Fare on the Third Coast

Sept. 17, 2022

If you catch Adrienne Brunette—restaurateur, CEO, and co-founder of Honest Hospitality, which runs Mama Lu’s, Flying Noodle, and now The Burrow—on her phone, she’s not going to be flipping through Facebook or Twitter.

“People ask what I do in my free ti… Read More >>

Brew North

July 9, 2022

Throughout the rest of Michigan, anything above Clare is generally thought of as “Up North,” but up here we know that the true line of demarcation is the 45th parallel: Once you’ve crossed that line of latitude, every step gets you closer to the North Pole than you are to … Read More >>

Focus on the Foam

March 13, 2021

As Farm Club approaches its first full year in business, it’s appropriate to look at some of the things that the agriculturally focused brewery, restaurant, and market has brought to the Traverse City area. 

A destination for literal farm-to-table vegetable-focused cuisin… Read More >>

Getting Wild with the Foeder

Feb. 20, 2021

Drinkers with a discerning eye may have noticed a couple interesting-looking wooden containers in the back of Traverse City’s Silver Spruce Brewing. Behind a row of wine barrels sit two tall vertical barrels clad with stainless steel, huddled into a back… Read More >>