Big Buck Beer Bottle

Gaylord, Michigan, United States

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A grain silo shaped like a Big Buck beer bottle stands on the grounds of Big Buck Brewery at 550 S. Wisconsin Avenue, Gaylord, Michigan. Its height is reported as 45 or 47 feet. A separate bottle at the former Big Buck Brewery in Auburn Hills was removed in 2016.

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Site-level location · 45.0218° N, 84.6845° W

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Gaylord's brewery has a beer bottle for a landmark: a grain silo built in the shape of a Big Buck bottle, standing on the lawn.

Big Buck Brewery is at 550 S. Wisconsin Avenue, just off I-75 in Gaylord, a northern Michigan city that its tourism bureau calls the "Alpine Village" and describes as the highest city in the Lower Peninsula, at 1,348 feet. Northern Express reported that the restaurant opened in early 1995 and, in 2005, described its decor as including a 47-foot grain silo in the shape of a Big Buck beer bottle.

The Gaylord Michigan Area Convention and Tourism Bureau gives the height as 45 feet. It calls the bottle a stainless steel structure that was once a grain silo and says it can hold 60,000 pounds of malt. The bureau credits the painting to Glen McCune, who also made the bar and the bear and eagle carvings inside.

The restaurant closed in 2017 and reopened in October 2018 as Big Buck Brewery under new owners, according to Northern Express. The magazine's 2018 coverage describes the silo as standing outside the building, and in 2022 it called it the "can't-miss-it beer bottle on the lawn".

It is not the bottle that stood at the old Big Buck Brewery in Auburn Hills. WDIV reported in October 2016 that that bottle, a steel silo 45 feet high and weighing 20,000 pounds, had been removed and was to go on display at Powers Beer Distributing in Orion Township.

The bottle stands at a working brewery and restaurant, and the brewery's own site lists Sunday as closed.

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A brewery and restaurant, so the bottle sits on business grounds beside I-75 exit 282 (Northern Express, 2018). The brewery's site lists Monday to Thursday 11:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday 11:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., Sunday closed.

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On the lawn of Big Buck Brewery, 550 S. Wisconsin Ave., Gaylord, just off I-75. Business property.

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