Downtown GR featured a contribution from Founders Brewing Co. with their 100-Year Oak IPA (Centennial IPA aged on oak.) Founders also recently launched their latest Backstage release which coincidentally happens to be another tree-themed beer the Mango Magnifico con Calor. Hopcat went “wild” with their release of the grapefruit pale “Weird Ale Spankovic,” while Grand Rapids Brewing Co. released a bourbon-aged Brewer’s Grove Spruce IPA. Mitten Brewing served up a Pine Tar Maple IPA.
Also downtown, The B.O.B. had their own tapping release party featuring live music from singer/songwriter Sam Kenny and $2 off all tree themed beer of which they were featuring the following: Tangerine Trees, Smoked Wit & Robert the Barrel Aged Imperial Stout.
Elsewhere in the greater Grand Rapids area, the recently rebranded Cellar Brewing Co. in Sparta contributed an Apple IPA to the project, which also debuted at this year’s Summer Beer Festival in Ypsilanti. Rockford Brewing tapped a cherry-wood smoked Dunkelweizen dubbed “Kirsche Me Under the Cherry Tree” in conjunction with their Free Live Music Thursdays while the not so distant Perrin Brewing brewed up a White Fir Maple Wheat.
In yet another excursion, I was very impressed with Cranker’s Oakenshield Stout, White Flame’s Maple Cookie Monster Brown and Pike 51’s Life’s a Peach! all of which were participating in the Brewer’s Grove project. And likewise included was the Hideout with their Spruce Tip Summer Ale (also tapped at the WGRD Beer fest,) and Shmohz with two brews for the project, a Smoked Maple Brown and a Juniper Rye.
The project has been coordinated in conjunction with the Friends of GR Parks / Urban Forest Project and proceeds fund a “Brewers Grove” of trees (in most cases a $1 from every pint was used to build up a “tree bank” for the project.) A ceremony and growler-friendly planting event is scheduled for October 17th at Riverside Park, with the Mi Beer Film to be shown in the evening.
Apple IPA
Apple IPA
Barrel Aged Albius Vanilla Porter
Barrel Aged Albius Vanilla Porter
Big Red Coq Blackhand and Wit
Big Red Coq Blackhand and Wit
Brewers Grove Poster
Brewers Grove Poster
Brewers Grove Spruce IPA
Brewers Grove Spruce IPA
Dryad Ale
Dryad Ale
Erdbier Strawberry Wheat
Erdbier Strawberry Wheat
Ginger Dry Hopped Cider
Ginger Dry Hopped Cider
Harmony Brewing
Harmony Brewing
Maple Cookie Monster Brown
Maple Cookie Monster Brown
Oakenshield Stout Tree Beer
Oakenshield Stout Tree Beer
Pine Tar Maple IPA
Pine Tar Maple IPA
Smoked Belgian Brown and Tangerine
Smoked Belgian Brown and Tangerine
Taplist
Taplist
The BOB Smoked Wit and Robert the Barrel
The BOB Smoked Wit and Robert the Barrel
The Peoples Cider Company
The Peoples Cider Company
The Pleasant Peninsula "Vegan"
The Pleasant Peninsula "Vegan"
The Wilcox Pork
The Wilcox Pork
Vivant Taps
Vivant Taps
Vivants Tree Beer
Vivants Tree Beer
"Weird" Ale Spankovic
"Weird" Ale Spankovic
Whiskey Rooster
Whiskey Rooster