Notes: Local Beer Groups

Furthering the goal of exploring Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Illinois breweries and brew-related events, I've added a few links to the page. Below are links to the relevant brewer's guilds (as registered with the Brewers Association). These links are great references, listing the names and locations of all member breweries within the state. Note that Ohio doesn't seem to have a guild.

I've included more informal beer guides. Again, not all states have them, and some states are better organized than others. But these sites can be good references for opinions or news that you can't get on the guild sites.

Brewer's Guilds

• Brewers Association (National)
• Illinois Craft Brewers Guild
• Brewers of Indiana Guild (BIG)
• Michigan Brewers Guild
• (Ohio does not appear to have a brewer's guild)

Beer Guides

• Indiana
• Michigan
• Ohio
• (There appears to be no beer guide for Illinois)

BeerAdvocate's BeerFly and RateBeer are also indispensable resources for locating good regional beer.

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