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Ye Olde Taproom: Detroit MI

Front and back of the beer list
What do you get when you take a prohibition era speakeasy, keep it open as a bar well into the 21st century and continue to be one of the best beer joints in all of Detroit. Only answer has to be "Ye Olde Taproom", a bar with such an impressive beer list that promises to take you "Around the World in 250 beers".

That promise of a world spanning beer list is true to its word. The Beer list (shown above) boasts beers of all different styles, genres, nationality, and tastes. Something for everyone here.
 With such a beer list it is easy to be overwhelmed and not be able to decide. We have favored many different strategies, all of which help assure a night of beer sampling un-paralleled in Michigan.

  1. Enter the Tap Room
  2. Decide a beer genre:
    1. by nation
    2. by style
    3. by color
    4. by name
    5. For example: tonight we only drink beer whose names include the word "______" or beers starting with the letter "____".
  3. Drink the beer
  4. Repeat as necessary

Mr Hops with the German "Smoked" beer 


On this trip, Mr Hops suggested Smoked Beer or Rauchbier we started with one of the most famous, a Bavarian beer from the city of Bamberg. We followed it up with the "Stone Smoked Porter" from the USA.






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