The Buzz: Siciliano's Market News & Notes

By Steve Siciliano Occasionally the staff and I get our hands on highly sought after beers that are not distributed in the Grand Rapid...

By Steve Siciliano Like every Grand Rapidian who is passionate about craft beer,  I am hoping that our town retains the coveted designat...

The question is, what will  this look like 10 days from now? By Steve Siciliano Yesterday I watched a pair of mallards happily padd...

2007 San Leonino Castellina Chianti Classico, $14.39/750ml By Steve Siciliano Sometimes I can’t remember where I put my car keys, but...

By Steve Siciliano Beer tokens, 2013 MI Winter Beer Fest Of the 6000 craft beer lovers who attended the Michigan Winter Beer Festival...

Two generations, hard at work on the wine presses By Steve Siciliano Because we post many more articles in The Buzz about homebrewing...

A homebrewer weighs out grain at Siciliano's By Steve Siciliano Recently I’ve been reflecting about how inadequate the word “hobby...

Russ Smith & Sierra Nevada's Jim Macielak, soon after Russ was presented the trophy for 2012 Best of Show . By Steve Siciliano...

Former Siciliano's employee, current head brewer, Jacob Derylo By Steve Siciliano Over the past fifteen years I’ve had the pleas...

By Steve Siciliano When I was very young I was afraid of the dark. Now, over fifty years later, I must admit that I can’t ...

By Steve Siciliano If you watched any televised sports over the weekend chances are good that you saw the Buffalo Wild Wings commercia...

Timmermans Pumpkin Lambicus, $11.99/750 By Steve Siciliano In view of the current popularity of pumpkin beers in this country it shou...

By Steve Siciliano Maybe it’s because I generally ignore politics that I only recently heard that President Obama had purchased homebre...

By Steve Siciliano It certainly was a busy week at Siciliano’s. Our week long sale on beer- and wine-making supplies kicked off last Mond...

By Steve Siciliano Last week Barb and I accompanied Siciliano’s Homebrew Contest 2012 Best-of-Show winner Russ Smith on a three-day visi...

In which the bossman reflects on beer in advertising, then shares some of his favorite "commercials" (see below) with readers of T...

Forget how much it sounds like a field sport for stoners, "highball" is a once-popular term for a tall mixed drink, also a word th...

Fiction by Steve Siciliano In exchange for the six hours he spent raking leaves at the Dominican convent Vito Brunelli got a ham sandwic...

By Steve Siciliano In the Academy Award winning film The Lost Weekend (see trailer below), Ray Milan won an Oscar for his portrayal of ...

When it comes to selling, serving, or brewing craft beer, no one business can afford to be an island unto itself (a peninsula maybe). ...