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Detroit's Pop Up Beer Garden Returns This Weekend

By Christy Strawser
CBS Detroit Managing Editor

DETROIT (CBS Detroit) Detroit's first and only pop-up beer garden is back by popular demand starting this weekend, May 19 and 20.

More than 7,000 people visited Tashmoo Biergarten in a Detroit neighborhood when it popped up for five weekends last fall. With Michigan beer on tap, tasty Mitten-themed treats and a hearty dose of gemutlichkeit, organizers are hoping for another big hit this year.

"This year it will be just (this) Saturday and Sunday, but it's our hope that we'll do a longer one in the fall," said organizer Suzanne Vier. "It's very community oriented, neighbors, families, people from Detroit and beyond, get together drink a beer and look at the sky and eat some great food."

The non-profit event is sponsored by community volunteers with proceeds going to the neighborhood's school, the Detroit Waldorf School, and the neighborhood's community development corporation. The beer garden, which is open noon to 9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, takes over a vacant lot in Detroit's West Village, 1416 Van Dyke.

Attendees can buy tickets that are used to buy brews. An average beer will cost four tickets, with tickets at $1 each. Entry is free.

Featured Michigan Brewers include:  Arcadia Ales - Whitesun Ale, Atwater - TC Cherry Wheat / D-Lite/ Purple Gang Plisner, Short's - ControversiALE, New Holland - Poet, Founders - All Day IPA, Motor City - Hard Cider, Jolly Pumpkin - Calabaza Blanca / Bam, Milking It - Red Brick.

Food will come from the People's Pierogi Collective, Corridor Sausage Co., and Porktown Sausage.

And while it is a free-wheeling day, there are some rules: No smoking, ticket buyers must be 21 years old, no dogs, no outside food and beverages, and shirt, shoes, pants and/or shorts are required at all times

"It's really a pop up that brings the community together in the great outdoors, there's definitely open air spaces (in Detroit), but ours is the first beer garden," Vier said.

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