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Each week Brad and Bryan from White Pine Coffee arrive at our place with a sack full of our favorite caffeine fix. These Pontiac-raised gents run a small-batch roastery in Oxford located along the Polly Ann trail. Their brews are a key ingredient in our Coffee Porter and Coffee Blond, and you can also order their coffee off our menu to enjoy anytime….mmmmm, coffee….
We source the majority of our hops from Top Hops Farm in Goodrich MI. This is one of the largest family-owned hop farms in Michigan and operated by father and son team Mark and Sean. They are proud to be a MAEAP certified farm, meaning high quality hop production along with responsible and environmentally conscious farm practices. We especially enjoy our trip there each late summer to take the freshly harvested Cashmere hops to put into our wet hopped Johnny Cashmere Farmhouse Ale - a 2 hour time span from field to kettle.
Wherever we can, we get the produce for our made-from-scratch kitchen from local farms, fresh markets and organic suppliers. One of the advantages if living in the northern part of Oakland County is being surrounded by farms and dedicated growers - and we want to support them. We also source our produce from Del Bene, a long time supplier operating out of Eastern Market in Detoit.
Mark Spencer, founder and owner of Spencer's Apiary in Lake Orion has been producing local raw honey, bee pollen and hive products since 2013. His golden harvest goes into our Witbier and Honey Lager, mixed into our cocktails and gets used in our kitchen to sweeten some tasty morsels.
We're proud to partner with Fairway Packing, a family owned and operated purveyor located at Eastern Market, Detroit They've been supplying the highest quality meat and fish/seafood to metro Detroit restaurants since 1956​. Our chefs create magic with their product!
All of our base malt comes from RAHR in Minnesota, which is unique for its fossil fuel-free malting plant. A hundred per cent of the energy used in the plant comes from a biomass-powered boiler (the first of its kind in the US, and only the second one in the world). Pretty cool, huh? And you thought malt was just a simple grain….
After our brewers are done with the grain used to make your beer, we pass it on to the cows at Upland Hills Farm and Labrie Farm both in Oxford. Don’t worry, it’s non-alcoholic. UHF and owners Leslie and Steve have provided employment for every broke teenager in our family as camp counselors. About time we gave something back…