Blackrocks Brewery is a craft brewery in Marquette, Michigan. Taking the name from a local landmark, former pharmaceutical salesmen David Manson and Andy Langlois opened Blackrocks in 2010. They originally brewed their products in the basement of a Victorian-style house (pictured), and the building's two other floors were used as a taproom. By 2013, persistent high demand for Blackrocks' beer led Manson and Langlois to expand their brewing capacity, including the purchase and conversion of a former Coca-Cola bottling plant. In the early 2020s, they expanded Blackrocks' taproom into an adjacent property, which doubled its available indoor area. Blackrocks produced 12,687 barrels of beer in 2023, up about 11 percent from the year prior, and they are the largest craft brewery in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Their most popular beer is 51K, an American IPA named for a local ski marathon.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1909:

Fifty-nine days after leaving New York City with three passengers, Alice Huyler Ramsey arrived in San Francisco to become the first woman to drive an automobile across the contiguous United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Huyler_Ramsey

1944:

IBM presented the first program-controlled calculator to Harvard University, after which it became known as the Mark I (pictured). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Mark_I

1998:

Car bombs exploded simultaneously at the American embassies in the East African capital cities of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, killing more than 200 people and injuring more than 4,000 others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_United_States_embassy_bombings

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

mend: 1. (transitive) 2. To physically repair (something that is broken, defaced, decayed, torn, or otherwise damaged). 3. (figurative) 4. To add fuel to (a fire). 5. To correct or put right (an error, a fault, etc.); to rectify, to remedy. 6. To put (something) in a better state; to ameliorate, to improve, to reform, to set right. 7. To remove fault or sin from (someone, or their behaviour or character); to improve morally, to reform. 8. In mend one's pace: to adjust (a pace or speed), especially to match that of someone or something else; also, to quicken or speed up (a pace). 9. (archaic) To correct or put right the defects, errors, or faults of (something); to amend, to emend, to fix. 10. (archaic) To increase the quality of (someone or something); to better, to improve on; also, to produce something better than (something else). 11. (archaic) To make amends or reparation for (a wrong done); to atone. 12. (archaic except UK, regional) To restore (someone or something) to a healthy state; to cure, to heal. [...] 13. (intransitive) 14. (figurative) 15. Of an illness: to become less severe; also, of an injury or wound, or an injured body part: to get better, to heal. 16. Of a person: to become healthy again; to recover from illness. 17. (archaic) Now only in least said, soonest mended: to make amends or reparation. 18. (chiefly Scotland) To become morally improved or reformed. [...] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mend

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Thank you, Madam Vice-President, for the trust we have put in me — but maybe more so, thank you for bringing back the joy.   --Tim Walz https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tim_Walz