Giant Big Buck beer bottle reappears at new home

Bill Laytner
Detroit Free Press

Hey, who moved my beer?

Remember that giant beer bottle on I-75 north of Detroit? Said “Big Buck Beer”?

This 40-foot mock beer bottle, a landmark for decades on I-75 in Auburn Hills -- when it said "Big Buck Beer" -- went up on June 1, 2017 in Orion Township outside Michigan's biggest distributor of -- well, guess what beer brand.

Of course you do. It was a landmark for more than two decades, beside a microbrewery of the same name. When the micro-spot closed, that big bottle went up for grabs. And the folks who got it are just a few miles away.

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On Thursday, the 45-foot ad exec's dream icon went up with a new label in Orion Township, outside Michigan's biggest distributor of Miller Lite. So guess what the bottle says now.

Sadly, it’s out of freeway view, at 3700 Giddings Road, north of Silverbell Road, outside Powers Distributing. But it’s probably not moving again because the thing was formerly the micro-brewery’s grain silo, said Jeff Bright at Powers Distributing.

The beer may be less filling but the bottle is made of steel, “and really, really heavy,” Bright said. Not the beer, the bottle! (Like, over 5 tons.)

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