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Young Chefs' Big Bets III

Jolly Pumpkin Cafe & Brewery opens.

by Tony McReynolds

posted 10/12/2009

Ron Jeffries loves beer so much that he once tried to design his own master's degree at the U-M--in beer brewing. But after one term, "I got pretty depressed at the state of the world," he says. "So I decided to devote my life to humanitarian efforts--which I think making good beer qualifies as." He quit school to become one of the first brewers at Grizzly Peak.

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