On my trip down US-23, The Boathouse Beer Co. and Boozery may have closed a little earlier than some places. But about 20 minutes away in National City, Michigan, Sand Lake Micro Brewery was open and serving beers, so I started driving in their direction. Sand Lake Micro Brewery opened Read more…
After leaving Alcona Brew Haus I continued my journey South on US-23 and headed towards Tawas City, Michigan and The Boathouse Beer Co. & Boozery. This brewery opened in 2017 and has been carving out a name for themselves with solid beer for the last 7 years. The brewery is Read more…
Are you driving along Lake Huron up US-23 anytime soon? Looking for a place to grab a beer and some food along the way? Look no further than Alcona Brew Haus in Harrisville, Michigan. Alcona Brew Haus opened their doors in May of 2019 and has turned Harrisville into a Read more…
Since it’s been a while, I figured it was time to do another Throwback Thursday. This trip down memory lane takes us back to Kalamazoo (This will be a theme very often for Throwback Thursdays, Kalamazoo has lost a lot of breweries over the years), and Tibbs Brewing Company. Tibbs Read more…
Ever since Arcadia Ales packed up their operation and left town, the city of Battle Creek was waiting patiently for a new brewery to open. Enter Handmap Brewing Company, they began operations in 2019, but their grand opening was delayed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Handmap has been Read more…
Sticking with the theme from yesterday’s post, we are going to cross Lake Besser into Downtown Alpena and review HopSide Brewery. They opened their doors in 2021 and have wasted no time in offering a unique brewing experience in that span. Hopside is a wide open space, with a circle Read more…
Just outside of Downtown Alpena is another great brewery in Michigan that is making a whole lot of noise in the brewing industry, Austin Brothers Beer Company. Austin Brothers was established in 2015 and wasted no time becoming one of the more recognizable names in the Michigan Brewing scene. Austin Read more…
Another category of beer that I absolutely can not get enough of comes from the Bock family of beers. These include Traditional Bock, Maibock, Doppelbock, Eisenbock, and Weizenbock. Bock is a strong German beer, which is usually a dark lager. I will cover the history of the style and then Read more…
Keeping up with yesterday’s motif, we are going to go just a couple of blocks away in Grand Rapids to yet another brewery that has made my top 25 breweries in Michigan list, and visit Brass Ring Brewing Company. Opening in 2018, Brass Ring is located in the Alger Heights Read more…
Here we go again, we have arrived at another review of a brewery that has made it on my top 25 breweries in Michigan list. I am talking about Arvon Brewing Company in Grand Rapids. They have been producing beer since 2018 and in six short years they have really Read more…
