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Pub Crawls
Bier Distillery opening August 18th
Bier Distillery is set to open August 18th, 2016 according to social media. As far as I can tell this will just be spirits and not beer. Located at 5295 WEST RIVER DR. NE, STE 100, COMSTOCK PARK, MI 4932 get ready for some liquor!
TagaBrew “tag your beer trail”
Have you seen anyone wearing small copper tags around their necks, or hanging from their growlers? Or maybe for sale at a local brewery? It was probably a TagaBrew! Created to provide people that visit breweries a cheap and tangible way to remember where they’ve visited without having to buy a mug or tshirt. It’s an interesting concept sure to appeal more to the female demographic and die hard brewery snobs but I’ll admit they caught my attention recently for sale at Dutch Girl Brewing.
Beer City Brewsader Passport
It’s official, I’m a Beer City Brewsader! Just picked up my free tshirt at the GOsiteGR after hitting 11 of the 23 breweries listed in the passport.
If you don’t know what a “Brewsader” is or why I would need a passport to drink beer don’t worry I’ll explain.
Experience GR has created a small booklet called a ‘passport’ that lists 23 of Grand Rapids breweries and as you visit each one they will stamp your book. If you visit 8 or more you can redeem the passport for a free tshirt that brands you a “Brewsader” or a person that enjoys drinking at breweries. Free, fun, simple, basically it’s a self guided brewery tour and the passport is full of information as well as space to write your favorite beers and breweries. I was also told that they are considering an even better prize for people that visit all 23 breweries but as of yet they are working out the details.
You can get your own Brewsader Passport at any of the participating breweries or the GOsiteGR inside the Grand Rapids Art Museum. To redeem it you can just mail it in or personally visit the GOsiteGR as I did, they are friendly!
Beer on Tap this week
B.O.B.’s Brewery
•Hopsun, Belgian summer whit
•AHA Bread Beer, Belgian saison
•Full On IPA, India pale ale
•Spaceboy Stout, English oatmeal stout
•Crimson King, amber ale
•Blondie, golden ale
•Spooky Action, way beyond IPA
•Robert the Barrel, bourbon barrel ale
Brewery Vivant
•Farm Hand, French Farmhouse Ale
•Triomphe, Belgian IPA
•Big Red Coq, Red Belgo-American IPA
•Undertaker, Belgian style dark ale
•Contemplation, Belgian inspired golden ale
•Wit, Belgian wit
•Plowhorse, Belgian style imperial stout
•Tripel, Belgian style ale
•Sgt Peppercorn, Rye ale
•The Cheetah, defies beer styles
•Whiskey Rooster, Wood aged selection
•Zaison, Imperial Saison
•Vander Mill Totally Roasted, Cider with spiced, roasted almonds
•Vander Mill Blue Gold, Cider with blueberries
Elk Brewing
•Hefeweizen
•ESB
•IPA
•Porter
•Scotch Ale
•Black IPA
Founders Brewing Company
•Pale Ale
•Centennial IPA
•Dirty Bastard
•Red’s Rye IPA- draft
•Porter
•All Day IPA
•Pale Ale- nitro
•Oatmeal Stout- nitro
•Headless Harvest IPA
•Double Trouble
•Curmudgeon Old Ale
•Rubaeus
•ChDevil Dancer
•Barrel-Aged Spite Blend
Grand Rapids Brewing Company
•Silver Foam
•Rosalynn Bliss Blonde
•John Ball Brown
•Ominous Rapids
•The Fishladder IPA
•Senator Lyons Stout
•Roasted Rapids
•Violet Macmillan’s Pale Wheat
•Brewers Heritage Hefeweizen
•ChristaVice
•Downtown Dank
Gravel Bottom Craft Brewery and Supply
•Bottoms Up, amber ale
•Chain Saw Charlie’s Wacky Wit, belgian wheat beer
•ZSB
•Highland Fantasy, scottish ale
•English Brown Porter
•Crusher Coco Brown, the brown ale that imploded our fermenter
Harmony Brewing Company
•Ali-ien Abduction, black IPA
•Black Squirrel, smokey porter
•Grand Jollification, berliner weisse available in plain, juniper, cherry, strawberry or black rose tea flavors
•Beach Wedding, saison
•Brownson, American brown ale
•Star Stuff, belgian dubbel
The Hideout Brewing Company
•18th Amendment Gluten Free Ale
•Black Hearted Bitter Ex IPA
•Black Rye
•Blueberry Stout – nitro
•Blueberry Wit
•Cherry Wit
•Citrus Pilsner
•Hefeweizen
•Hoppy Lager
•Jail House Black IPA
•Lemon Shandy
•Light Amber Ale
•Light Coconut Brown Ale
•Rye Pale Ale
Jaden James Brewery
•Gluten Free Ale
•Cream Ale
•Winter Ale
•Apple Raz Wheat
•IPA
•American Brown
•Porter
•Hazelnut Porter
•Black IPA
•Cherry Hard Cider
•Apple Hard Cider
•Raspberry Hard Cider
•Peach Hard Cider
•Root beer soda
Mitten Brewing Company
•Ryebaby
•Mitten Scottish ale
•Kissing bandit blonde
•Maple toasted pecan brown
•Triple crown brown
Osgood Brewing Company
•Yippee-ki-yay, blonde ale
•Sol seeker, American wheat
•Slam dunke, dunkleweizen
•Wingman, wheat IPA
•Hammer, gluten free IPA
•Journey, IPA
•Best day ever, DIPA
•Brownie bite, Belgian brown IPA
•Bee line, American brown ale
•Oakestown, amber ale
•Notley, porter
•Big spring, stout
•Blackbird, barrel aged stout
•Under the bridge, strawberry blonde
•Riverbend, rye IPA
•358, pale ale
Perrin Brewing Company
•Perrin Gold
•Perrin Pilsner
•Call the Banners
•Single Track
•Perrin Black
•Nitro Dry Stout
•Veteran’s Pale Ale (VPA)
•Grapefruit IPA
•Rain Dancer
•IPA
•I.I.P.A.
•Kingdom of Tonga Vanilla Porter
•Razzberry Blonde
•Hopwood
•Stoutwood
•Redwood
•Quadwood
•Black Goat
•Rye Wine
Schmohz Brewery
•Valley City Cream Ale
•Treasure Chest ESB
•Amber Tease Ale
•Pail Ale
•India Pail Ale
•Hopknocker Imperial IPA
•Bone Crusher Stout
•Bloody Red Ale
•Pickle Tink Ale
•Razzmanian Devil
•Cirrus
•Zingiberene Ale
•Schwartz
•Miracle Off 28th Street
•Kiss my Scottish Arse
•Mad Tom’s Robust Porter
•Oktoberfest
•Gypsy’s Kiss Back
•John T. Pilsner
•Barley Wine
•Sammi Rae Root Beer Soda
•Sammi Rae Black Cherry Soda
Source: The Rapidian
Teazers 12th Annual Pub Crawl
Saturday Feb 8th, 2014 is Teazer’s 12th annual pub crawl in Grand Rapids. A $5 fee (to help support the Veteran’s Home in Grand Rapids) gets you in on this crawl. Registration at 2:30pm, Crawl starts at 3:30pm. The crawl starts at Teazer’s Bar and Grille, and goes to; Broadway Bar, Speakez Lounge, Rocky’s Bar & Grille and ends back at Teazer’s!
Trivia at Mitten Brewery
It’s Trivia night at Mitten Brewery!! Money for winners, so come with your brains. And while you’re here, grab some Christmas gifts!
Chicago heads to Grand Rapids
The Chicago Beer Society is planning a day long brewery trip to visit Grand Rapids area breweries and then back down the west coast of Michigan hitting a few other breweries too. Sounds like a good time and well planned for a very good price. Come on up Chicago and see what Grand Rapids has to offer!
More information and signup link
Hopcat beer school
Hopcat beer school with Ben Darcie at 3pm for $5
National Bourbon Day today!
Apparently it is National Bourbon Day today, June 14th. Luckily New Holland Brewing Co also distills spirits so you can sip their Beer Barrel Bourbon today to celebrate and support a local west Michigan distillery. There is also Prohibition Edition Bourbon Whiskey from Artesian Distillers in Grand Rapids you can try in celebration of this great day!