Follow Steve Siddall as he travels around the state visiting and reviewing craft breweries.
After a long travel time between breweries, we have reached Michigan’s Northernmost brewery, Brickside Brewery in Copper Harbor, Michigan. Opening in 2012, Brickside Brewing has been serving beer to thirsty residents and tourists for the last dozen years. The first thing that you will notice when you walk in the Read more…
Now that we have reached Houghton, Michigan the first brewery that we are going to stop at is going to be The Library Houghton/ Copper Country Brewing Company. They started brewing under the Copper Country Brewing Company name in 2019, and have been producing beer for people to study at Read more…
Up next on our brewery tour is Calumet, Michigan and Michigan House Cafe & Red Jacket Brewing Company. I researched the hell out of when they started brewing, I could not find a definitive answer. If Red Jacket sees this post and lets me know when they started brewing beer Read more…
As we keep heading West across the Upper Peninsula checking out breweries, we have to travel super far to the next destination. A whole 8 minute drive and 4.4 miles away from yesterday’s visit to Negaunee sits Ishpeming, Michigan and Jasper Ridge Brewery & Restaurant. Jasper Ridge opened in 1996 Read more…
We are going to take yet another break today from our trip throughout the Upper Peninsula and come back down state for the afternoon to show a brewery a little closer to home some love. I was saddened by the news last week of Arctic Circle Brewing Company in New Read more…
Now that we have left Marquette on our tour of the Upper Peninsula breweries, we are going to continue heading West into Negaunee and Upper Peninsula Brewing Company. The brewery was established in 2016 but did not open their doors to the public until 2021. In those 3 short years, Read more…
Since we have finished up our beer travels in the great city of Marquette. Today we are going to take another break from traveling around the breweries of the Upper Peninsula and check in with another familiar face in the brewing industry a little closer to home. Don’t worry, we Read more…
Now the reason we finally ended up coming to Marquette and crossing all of their breweries off of the list was spurred by one event, the 14th annual Upper Peninsula Fall Beer Festival. The festival is held the Saturday after Labor Day every year in Mattson Lower Harbor Park overlooking Read more…
We have now come to the last of the breweries in Marquette, Michigan. Barrel + Beam is located a couple of miles West of Downtown Marquette (It was actually within walking distance of our hotel for the weekend). Barrel+Beam opened in January of 2018 and has been making high quality Read more…
It took a while to get here, but we have finally gotten to my favorite brewery in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Kognisjon Bryggeri. Although the Upper Peninsula has a lot of great beer to offer, this is the only brewery North of the Mackinac Bridge that made my list Read more…
