The Michigan Brewers Guild’s 3rd Annual Inaugural Spring Beer Festival will take place on Saturday, May 7. Yes, you read that right – “3rd Annual Inaugural.” The first two Spring Beer Festivals were cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID-19.
The festival will take place at Turtle Creek Stadium, which is south of Traverse City. Gates will open at 1 pm and close at 6 pm. Enthusiasts will be allowed in an hour early per usual of the Michigan Brewers Guild festivals.
Most thought the festival would take place in the parking lot of the baseball stadium like the Winter Beer Festival in Grand Rapids. The festival program and map were released to show that the festival will take place in and around the stadium.
Upon first glance, the festival layout seems spread out. Instead of having tents to reference and areas around the tents, this festival references the bases on the field, concourses, fences, and roads.
We’ve scoured the beer list of over 450 beers from 98 breweries to come up with this list of the 20 beers we think you need to try at the Spring Beer Festival. In order to help you navigate where our top 20 beers are, we’ve provided both the name and number of where the beer will be in reference to the map.
MAY 7 UPDATE – Arvon Brewing Co reached out to inform us that they had to cancel their tent at the festival. We’re looking forward to checking them out at the next festival.
20. Happy to Be Here
Dixie Saloon Brewery | Mackinaw City | North Fence (5)
American Pale Wheat | Unknown ABV
19. Chocolate Covered Potato Chip Milk Stout
Snowbelt Brewing Co | Gaylord | East Concourse (2)
Milk Stout | 5.8%
18. Bear Paw Porter
Grizzly Peak Brewing Company | Ann Arbor | East Fence (6)
Porter | 6%
17. South Branch Summer Ale
Paw Paw Brewing Company | Paw Paw | East Fence (6)
Blonde Ale | 5.2%
16. Bastard Bourbon Brown
Fresh Coast Beer Works | Traverse City | First Base (4)
American Brown Ale | 5.5%
15. Fuzzier Farmer Imperial IPA
Brewery Terra Firma | Traverse City | East Fence (6)
Triple IPA | 10%
14. Coffee Peanut Butter Chocolate Stencel Stout
Unexpected Craft Brewing Company | Oak Park | North Concourse (2)
Coffee Stout | 6.5%
13. Third Eye IPA
Brose Brewing | Beulah | East Fence (6)
English IPA | 5.1%
12. Chocolate Hazel
Black Fire Winery & Brewery | Tecumseh | East Concourse (2)
Milk Stout | Unknown ABV
11. White Russian in a Flannel Speedo
Tantrick Brewing Co | Allegan | East Concourse (2)
Milk Stout | Unknown ABV
10. Belgian Maple Sap
Four Leaf Brewing | Clare | Outfield Road (7)
Belgian Pale Ale | Unknown ABV
9. Night Moves
Townies Brewery | Ann Arbor | North Concourse (2)
American Red Ale | 5.7%
8. Little Spruce IPA
Silver Spruce Brewing | Traverse City | Outfield Road (7)
Session IPA | 5.3%
7. Chocolate Dip
Arvon Brewing Co | Grand Rapids | North Fence (5)
Fruited Sour | 5%
6. Uncle Green Guy
Hop Lot Brewing Company | Suttons Bay | First Base (4)
Session IPA | 4.7%
5. Kushy Punch
Rare Bird BrewPub | Traverse City | East Fence (6)
American IPA | 6.8%
4. BBA Mean Vanilla Bean
Drafting Table Brewing Company | Wixom | East Concourse (2)
Imperial Stout | Unknown ABV
3. Fritts Lager
Old Nation Brewing Co | Williamston | North Fence (5)
Helles Lager | 5.5%
2. Depth II
Brew Detroit | Detroit | East Concourse (2)
Imperial Stout | 14.1%
1. Ancestor’s Wildest Dreams
Five Shores Brewing + Black Calder Brewing Company | Beulah + Grand Rapids | East Fence (6)
Imperial Stout | 10.5% Collaboration beer also included A Mazion Cakes and Siren of Stout.
Which beer or brewery are you looking forward to checking out at the Spring Beer Festival?
In order to view the full beer list, click here.
Cheers!
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Michigan Spring Beer Festival Review (2022) - Better On Draft · June 2, 2022 at 8:02 pm
[…] The 3rd annual Inaugural Michigan Spring Beer Festival is the newest of the now five major festivals that the Michigan Brewers Guild throws every year. Michigan boasts 400 breweries that have seating and around 100 of them were there on Saturday. The full list of beers can be found HERE and you can find our list of beers to check out HERE […]