American English accent for an audiobook sample completed for ACX
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Craft beer comes to the upper peninsula. The craft beer revolution started in California in the late 19 seventies, adding such beers as India pale ale, He of Ween and Belgium triples, all of which were much different from the Pale American Loggers that had long dominated the American beer drinking scene. It reached Michigan's lower Peninsula in the mid 19 eighties but did not arrive in the upper peninsula until the mid 19 nineties in 1994 2 years after a Michigan law was passed that allowed restaurants to brew and sell beer on premises. Hereford and Hops Steakhouse and Brew pub opened in Escanaba. Five more brew pubs had opened in 1998. During the first decade of the 21st century, the number of openings slowed down one brew pub and three breweries with tap rooms. However, during the second decade, the upper peninsula shared in the rapid growth of craft breweries and brew pubs that swept the country. And by the end of 2022 28 were in open for business. 16 of these breweries operate in population centers of over 10,000 people with Marquette, the host to seven of them what is surprising is that six breweries are in small towns, villages and even a two acre private lot in a state park. According to 2021 production statistics, three breweries produced over 10,000 barrels of beer while six produced under 100. However, whether they are located in larger or smaller communities, whether their annual production numbers in barrels is in five or two figures or whether their product is available across the upper peninsula and sometimes beyond or only in the tap room of the brewery itself. All of these breweries see themselves as important parts of their local communities. They create as one punster put it lo ale. The personnel are active in the communities. The breweries support local charities and civic activities. The tap rooms are gathering places where in addition to drinking local beer and visiting with friends, coworkers and neighbors, patrons can enjoy listening to local musicians and frequently look at the work of local artists displayed on the walls around them or at the area's natural beauties beyond those walls. Newer ale trails presents a description and celebration of the 28 craft breweries and brew pubs operating in Michigan's Upper Peninsula as of April 1st 2023 along with short notes on two scheduled to open in spring 2023. The stories of the breweries are geographically organized into eight ale trails starting in the eastern up, proceeding westward across the northern parts of the peninsula, often near shores of Lake Superior to the Wisconsin border and then eastward, close to Wisconsin's northeastern border and then Lake Michigan's northwestern Shores in Manistique. Essays for the breweries present back stories explore relationships between these breweries and their communities, profile owners and brewers and for each brewery offer tasting notes on a six pack and sometimes more of different beers selected by the head brewer. Each chapter draws on background research. The authors visits to Upper Peninsula breweries in 2017 and 2022 and tasting notes made during and after the visits. One final note brewing is a fluid industry, literally and figuratively breweries open close move or are purchased by larger breweries owners and brewers change, certain styles are dropped and others added tap room hours and services can be altered if you are planning on visiting breweries and brew pubs located in the Upper Peninsula. Be sure to check brewery websites and Facebook pages before you go and then enjoy drinking your upper ales locally as close as possible to where they are brewed. Periodic updates are available on the author's blog www dot beer quest west dot org.