Making Good Beer: Microbrewing in Lansing

By Daniel Strum
This is a story about the art of making beer. It was a cold afternoon when I met Thom Cannell, a local beer connoisseur at Harper’s, a combined microbrewery and brewpub in East Lansing. And it was a magical moment when we began tasting beer (they have six different beers on tap). Cannell inhaled, took a whiff of his sleeves, and exhaled before taking his first sip of the brown beer in front of us. "Your sleeves are neutral, so you can better perceive the maltiness and the bitterness of the beer," he explained, as if it were the most natural thing.
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Antiwar rally draws 2,000 to Lansing
Last Saturday might well have been a day for the history books. On five continents 12 million people took to the streets to demonstrate against war. Lansing joined 603 cities worldwide under the slogan "Say No to War in Iraq." The statewide Michigan rally organized by the Greater Lansing Network against War in Iraq attracted 2,000 protesters, making it the largest state demonstration since the Vietnam War protests in the early 1970s. David Wiener, assistant to Lansing Mayor Tony Benavides, said the last time he saw such a large crowd was when 800 people rallied against the Ku-Klux Klan in 1994.
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MSU students make uphill bid to renew energy, hope
Student environmental activists on the MSU campus are about to launch an election campaign with odds almost as long as the Rev. Al Sharpton’s bid for U.S. president. But their determination to win the support of undergraduate students for a tax to pay for clean energy on campus is at least a sign that environmental concern among young people, like wind and solar power, is renewable with each generation.
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GoLocal lunch set for Thursday at Tripper’s
City Pulse and Urban Options, a nonprofit environmental organization, will host the second GoLocal lunch at Tripper’s at noon Thursday, Feb. 20.
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Letters to the Editor

Civil Liberties: Henry Silverman
Administration steps up opposition to UM affirmative action policy

Health : Howard Brody
Split your pills and save money? In some cases, yes



Live & Local:
Your guide to live entertainment in Lansing and the surrounding area!

Art:
Eating chocolate at its finest . . . for art’s sake

Film:
Warming up with the global rhythms of The Flow

Music:
The Fags’ manifesto: No mediocrity in rock music
Techno brings out a crowd for DJ contest

Theater:
DeWitt students seeking life answers
Innocent or guilty: The audience gets to decide at LCP
tick, tick...BOOM: As if your were living it yourself
LCC’s ‘Spring Awakening’ mixes rock music, dose of ‘nightmarish’ realism

Advice Goddess: Amy Alkon
Could it be that you’re just a little bit too hard to please?

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