I have to give props where props are due. This goes out to Wizards Pinball Palace @ One Well Brewing in Kalamazoo MI. My wife and I made the trek from the Chicago area over the weekend to attend Pinball at The Zoo. We decided to stay overnight and were lucky enough to get a room around the corner from One Well Brewing. So after a lenghty day at PATZ and a couple hour rest, we headed over to One Well Brewing. We did a quick walk through at 1st and were amazed at the quality of the pinball line-up at this place. Heavy on Stern and the Bally/Williams era. There was a wall of video games, a couple of pool tables, air hockey and foosball too. Literally something for everone. However, the focus here was modern pinballs.

OK, let's grab some beer 1st and play later. We sat at the bar and each ordered an amazing array of beers on a couple of samplers. The beer list of their brewed beers was quite impressive and varied. Let's just say that the Maple Bourbon Barrel Imperial Stout @ 13% APV was outstanding.

OK, it's pinball time. Everything is 75 cent per game or 3 games for $2.00. No tokens, no game cards, pure cash. There are over 50 pinballs and each was clean, 100% functioning and palyable. There was not one machine that we played that had weak flippers or non functioning features. This was the most pristine collection of machines, for public use, that I have EVER seen. Sorry, but it puts PHOF to shame. I think there were only 2 games shut down, JJP GNR and something else. I got to play the heck out of Halloween CE with the latest code. I have zero clue as to why you guys are bailing on this machine. I think I played the cleanest and most perfectly working CV & WCS ever there. My wife played the heck out of RUSH and wants one. The kicker is, she could care less about RUSH. She also enjoys Mando. We both like TMNT, but cant stand the theme. Anyway, the point is if you are anywhere in the area, this is a MUST VISIT location to get your pinball fix. We stayed to about midnight playing. Already looking forward to doing it again next year.

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So the both of you know, my wife and I were so impressed that over Memorial Day weekend we went to Grand Rapids to relax and Saturday afternoon we drove down to Kzoo and spent about 3 hours there for beer n pinball!

bump for a great place!