GR Beer Tours.com is open for business with tickets for sale and tours starting in June, 2014! Now you can book a prepackaged tour or get a group of friends and devise your own private outing to all the best breweries in Grand Rapids, MI (Beer City, USA) without worrying about the driving.
The tours involve a ride in a 15 passenger van with stops at 3 or 4 craft breweries, beer samples at each stop, a tour of one of the breweries and an energetic guide that will teach you about beer and the local brewing history in Grand Rapids.
There are a variety of public tours you can join covering various areas of Grand Rapids city and the outlying regions too. Each tour should run between 3-5 hours and provide time for lunch (not provided in price).
For complete details and to book your tour visit their website GRBeerTours.com
Or you can also call their reservation department at 616-901-9719 and you can email requests to grbeertours@gmail.com
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Brewery tours in Grand Rapids and West Michigan
Peaches B&B Beer Weekend Package
Peaches Bed & Breakfast is proud to announce its inaugural three night Sit. Stay. Beer. Weekend for the ultimate craft beer aficionado. If you love craft beer and great food or if you’ve always wanted to learn to homebrew, this package is a must attend event. Limited availability, so reserve now!
Thursday night- arrive at Peaches and settle in. Join the Welcome Happy Hour from 5-7 if you wish. Then wander downtown for dinner or brews.
On Friday wake up to the smell of freshly brewed coffee and enjoy a scrumptious breakfast at Peaches and a short orientation before heading out to the party limo for your guided tour of the beer supply super-store, Siciliano’s, where we’ll purchase the ingredients for the beer we’ll brew.
The tour will continue with four fabulous Grand Rapids breweries. We’ll get a backstage tour at one and there will be plenty of time to enjoy the brews & stories of all. The limo returns to Peaches and you’ll have the evening to check out Grand Rapids’ restaurants or more breweries for dinner.
On Saturday, after another yummy breakfast, there will be a hands-on brewing lesson from a local award-winning brewmaster. Yes, it IS possible to brew excellent beer in your own residential kitchen with a limited set of equipment! This brew demonstration is suitable for everyone from never-brewed-yet beginners to long-time homebrewers. There will be two sessions with a break in the middle to get lunch or relax.
Saturday evening, the festivities will continue with a highly entertaining and educational four-course beer pairing dinner by Chef & beer expert Amy Sherman, host of “The Great American Brew Trail” TV show. Learning has never been so much fun!
Sunday morning, whether you started as strangers or have known one another for years, the group will have lots of stories and memories to share on your final morning at Peaches while enjoying a breakfast that includes spent-grain bread homemade from the brew lesson the day before.
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Great Lakes Pub Cruiser
Great Lakes Pub Cruiser
If you want some exercise while visiting breweries and bars in downtown Grand Rapids and have a group of like minded friends then the Great Lakes Pub Cruiser might be what you are looking for. This large contraption is powered by the riders pedaling just like a normal bike except you are moving a 15 person cruiser. Unfortunately you aren’t allowed to drink alcohol while on the pub cruiser but it has preset routes that can take you to many bars and some craft breweries or you can customize a route to hit whatever local businesses you might want. While pedaling can be a workout especially if you are going up some of the steep hills downtown it does give you a different perspective of the city and a nice break from drinking if you are doing a brewery tour. The pub cruiser driver doesn’t leave the cruiser while you go inside the bars and breweries to drink so it isn’t really a brewery tour in the traditional sense but if you plan ahead I’m sure the breweries will provide someone to give you a tour inside as well. Also realize you have to pedal to make the cruiser move and will be on the streets with car traffic so becoming too inebriated could prove problematic making this more of a leisurely pub cruise rather then a drunken college pub crawl idea.
West Michigan Beer Tours
West Michigan Beer Tours
Based in Kalamazoo, MI West Michigan Beer Tours does public and private brewery tours all over Western Michigan. This is a new company but they have a few tours under their belt already and seem to do a public tour every few months at least hitting new breweries in large groups with knowledgeable guides. They seem to stick with visiting a smaller number of breweries but promise to provide time at each one to sample the beers and get a feel for the breweries.
According to their website:
West Michigan Beer Tours offer a variety of public tours. A typical public bus tour will last approximately 5 hours and transportation will be 29 person mini-coach buses. Most tours will include:
3 Brewery Stops
Tour director knowledgeable in both the beer industry and our local area
Introduction to brewery owners and/or brewers
Tours of their facility
Sample at each brewery
West Michigan Beer Tours is dedicated to providing beer lovers with fun, flavorful and relaxing tours. We encourage every passenger to drink responsibly and have a designated driver. After each tour we will also provide access to a local taxi service. While we encourage everyone to purchase beer at the breweries to take with you, we do not allow any consumption on the buses.