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AUSTIN, Texas – Flemish Fox Brewery & Craftworks, a new craft brewery founded by Christine Celis, and Atwater Brewery, Detroit’s largest and fastest growing craft brewer, have entered an agreement to brew beer in a new collaboration brewery in Austin, Texas. Flemish Fox Brewery & Craftworks has acquired property ...
Read More »Upper Hand Brewery to release Double Ringer DIPA
ESCANABA, Mich. – Upper Hand Brewery is excited to announce the upcoming release of its newest specialty beer, Double Ringer, a Double India Pale Ale (IPA). Meant to celebrate the spring thaw in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Double Ringer is the ninth beer to be released since Upper Hand opened its doors in November 2014, including f ...
Read More »High Five Co-op Brewery: For the people, by the people
High Five Co-op Brewery wants you! Michigan’s first cooperatively-owned brewery hosted their official investment launch party, seeking investors to help fund what will ultimately lead to a democratically-operated brewpub in Grand Rapids. High Five Co-op started in 2011 when founder Dallas McCulloch won $5,000 in startup capital from the G ...
Read More »Elk Brewing: Sours and a Second Location
As some of you may already have heard, Elk Brewing is expanding. The sudsy city of Grand Rapids contains yet another brewery with eyes growing larger at the prospect of snagging a good location and introducing more of their product into the market. Eric Karns, co-owner of Elk Brewing, is expanding the brewery into a second location in Comst ...
Read More »For The Love of The Mitten, Beer, and Baseball
If you’re in Michigan and encounter a business name that includes the word “Mitten”, you’ll find several possible descriptions; all referring to the shape of the lower peninsula of our great state. Two of them happen to be based in Grand Rapids and share quite similar names. MittenBrew.com , the online news source you&r ...
Read More »KBS WEEK 2016
Founders Brewing Co. is happy to announce the third annual KBS Week, in honor of the release of Kentucky Breakfast Stout (KBS) this year. The beer will be available starting March 14 in Michigan and April 1 across the remainder of the brewery’s distribution footprint, but visitors and residents of Grand Rapids will be able to enjoy it M ...
Read More »International Women’s Collaboration Brew Day 2016
REGIONAL—The days until the International Women’s Collaboration Brew Day (IWCBD) are being counted down all over the world. March 8, 2016 will be a day when breweries globally come together in the name of beer and women in the industry. Coinciding with International Women’s Day, the day will embrace the cultural, social, eco ...
Read More »Winter Beer Fest: 11 years of craft camaraderie
There’s something about having over 1,000 of the most cared for craft beers at your mitten-covered fingertips that makes standing outside in winter weather simply worth it. For the Michigan Brewers Guild ’s 11th annual Winter Beer Fest, they recognized the increasing demand for their signature February event and for the second yea ...
Read More »Founders Education Program: Spreading Gospel of Beer
“At first we thought, what more can we learn about Founders?” That’s what Eva and Bob Trudell asked themselves before attending a “Palate Exploration Series” event at Founders Brewery in Grand Rapids. The two Founder’s aficionados were given tickets as a Christmas gift from their children and weren’t s ...
Read More »GRBC: Changing Directions to Support Local
Established breweries that have survived the blood, sweat and tears faced by opening in a saturated market need to make a decision — stay the course, or make some changes . Grand Rapids Brewing Company chose to change its direction by no longer being a certified organic brewery as of 2015. “We did that mostly so we could u ...
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