Oktoberfest Dinner & Brew Cruise on MI Princess

Cranker's Brewery claimed two medals at the prestigious US Beer Tasting Championships (USBTC) competition. The USBTC is a multi-stage competition where a series of field trials take place from six different regions of the country: Northeast, Mid-Atlantic/Southeast, Midwest, Rocky Mountain/Southwest, Northwest/Pacific, and California. The field trials first determine regional winners in each category. The top beers are then pitted against each other in order to name a National Grand Champion.

While the Big Rapids Cranker’s location celebrated it’s one-year anniversary earlier this year, the Grand Rapids location quietly installed it’s own nano-brewery and began selling and serving it’s own beers along with the award-winning signature brews from the Big Rapids brewing headquarters.

Our next beer pairing event  at the REO Town Pub is set for Thursday, Sepetember 5th at 7:00 PM. This time we will feature beer from the newly opened Cranker's Brewery in Big Rapids paired with five mini cupcakes made by Jennifer Quin's Creative Cakes.

Billed as an “eclectic eatery,” Cranker’s Coney Island’s menu features an impressive array of breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert food, but is now well known for their beers as well. In fact, the Big Rapids location recently celebrated their one year anniversary as a brewery. Having seen sales quadruple at this location, Cranker’s has now begun expanding the brewing component to it’s other locations and the “Beer City” Grand Rapids location is the first to get the makeover.