When the Grand Rapids Public Museum opens the doors on its “Thank you, BEER” exhibit next month, it’ll do so with its own signature beer to add to West Michigan’s rich craft brewing history. In celebration of the museum’s historic beer exhibit, we’ve brewed a limited-edition Furniture City Stock Ale that will be sold exclusively [...]
As we welcome in Stout Season, we will soon be saying “so long” to our new friend All Day IPA. But this isn’t goodbye. All Day IPA will be released across our footprint beginning on March 1, 2013. When we first launched All Day IPA in February of this year, we were limited by a [...]
Say goodbye to sunburns and uninspired citrus-soaked summer pilsners; we do nothing but offer bold flavor for the craft beer palate, and we’re doing it again this month with the arrival of this year’s Breakfast Stout. It will be available on tap and in bottles across our 23-state footprint beginning September 21. This beer carries [...]
The city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, is gearing up for the fourth annual ArtPrize, the world’s largest art competition, which means our hometown will be focused on art from September 19 to October 7. We’re a venue again this year and are excited to be showing the work of nine different artists in our taproom [...]
Our beer cheese dip (from our deli menu) is one of the hottest sellers in our taproom, and our deli manager Justin Golinski is cool enough to share the recipe with you all. Ingredients 1 pound cream cheese (softened) 1 ounce smoked Gouda cheese (grated) 6 ounces Founders Centennial IPA 1/2 ounce fresh baby [...]
We’ve begun distribution to quite a few new states in the past couple of months, and we understand if you’ve lost track. To help you out, we made this little map to show you where we distribute our beer as of today: Here are the dates of the first shipments to our most recently added [...]
Please check out this video produced by Krones, the machinery manufacturer that supplied us with some of our equipment, including the CombiCube B brew house that we began brewing on last fall. It includes an interview with our brewmaster, Jeremy Kosmicki, and great footage of our packaging line, cellar, and brew house.
Our taproom will be closed ALL DAY on July 29 and 30 for our first-ever employee getaway. The deli and company store will be closed, as well, and there will be no Discfunktional Sunday. We’ll also be using this opportunity to re-surface the taproom floors and make some other improvements so that your Founders experience [...]
Please check out this information from the Michigan Brewers Guild about Michigan Craft Beer Month! Michigan Brewers Guild Celebrates 15 Years With Annual Summer Beer Festival, “15th Anniversary Ale” Collaborative Brew & Craft Beer Month Designation (LANSING, Mich) – July 2012 is a big month for craft brewers in the Great Beer State as the [...]
A big thank you to everyone who came out to to Founders Fest 2012 on Saturday, June 23! We think the party was a great success, and those of us in the Founders Family enjoyed sharing it with all of you. Words can only say so much videos can say more. Please check out this [...]
Our next installation in our Backstage Series, Frangelic Mountain Brown, will be released beginning on Monday, July 2. To reiterate our previous announcement, while there will not be an official release party for Frangelic Mountain Brown at our taproom in Grand Rapids, the beer will be available on draft in the taproom beginning Monday, July [...]
We announced earlier today that Frangelic Mountain Brown would be the next release in our 750mL Backstage Series, with availability beginning in July. Part of what makes Founders Backstage Series so much fun is the period of speculation before the next release is announced. But the purpose of the series is to bring some [...]