KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN
On the corner of Michigan Street in the heart of Kalamazoo, OLDE PENINSULA BREWPUB had a central bar with extravagant mahogany mantle, back-and-side dining, and fine pub fare, August ‘06.
Glass-encased brew tanks served barley-dried wheat-chaffed popcorn-like Haymarket Light, slimly grape-soured apple-spiced pear-juiced caramel-dipped Sunset Red, soapy raspberry-tart lemon-pitted sourly-embittered Rockin’ Razberry Wheat, and creamy black coffee-chocolate-fronted, oaken black cherry-dried, nutty-tarred Midnight Stout.
Better choices were sweet banana-ripened nutty-hopped clove-spiced Summer Hefe-Weizen and piney red-fruited floral-spiced alcohol-empowered Opie IPA.