CBS on the Bottling Line
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Beer Releases
Canadian Breakfast Stout: Taproom Release Information Announced
Grand Rapids, Michigan, September 1, 2011—Founders Brewing Co. Vice President/Director of Marketing Dave Engbers announced last month that the highly anticipated Canadian Breakfast Stout (CBS) will be the second release in the company’s 750mL “Backstage Series”. It will be released to the market on October 3, 2011, with a taproom release party on October [...]
Canadian Breakfast Stout To Be the Second Release in Founders Brewing Company’s Backstage Series
Grand Rapids, Michigan, August 19, 2011—Founders Brewing Co. Vice President/Director of Marketing Dave Engbers announced today that the highly anticipated Canadian Breakfast Stout (CBS) will be the second release in the company’s 750mL “Backstage Series”. It will be released to the market on October 3, 2011, with a taproom release party on October 1. There [...]
Bottling Blushing Monk!
Tap List RSS Feed
If you’re a frequenter of our taproom—whether you live in the Grand Rapids area or not—we have something that may interest you: an RSS feed for our tap list. What this means: you will be able to receive live updates whenever we update our tap list. Been wanting to try CBS? Were you sitting at [...]
Blushing Monk in 750mL
You may have seen that we plan to release a 750 mL Backstage Series. Well, we recently announced that Blushing Monk will be the first in the series. Partner and Vice President Dave Engbers explains, “We haven’t produced this product in over four years and people have been begging for it—so this is [...]
2011 Availability Calendar
We’ve made a couple of adjustments to our availability for 2011, most notably by changing the seasons a bit for our seasonals. Please see the updated chart below.
750mL Bottles To Be Released This Year
As was announced in this MLive article, we are planning to release specialty beers in a 750mL bottle format later this year. Our new packaging line allows us to use this new bottle size—and we’re excited to be able to distribute some of our limited release beers, which were previously only available in kegs and [...]
Help Us Pick a Label!
We’d been working on developing a cutting edge beer for two years or so, and we were able to perfect the recipe recently. Unfortunately, we ran into some rights issues with the working name we’d been using. But we’re brewers and craft beer geeks. When we run into obstacles, we see opportunities. We realized this [...]
NYC Bottle Release
Bottles of Founders beer will be available in the NYC area starting March 26. Bottles of KBS will be available (in limited quantities) starting April 2. Check our beer locator to see where we are currently distributed and to find contact information for our distributors if you’re interested in locating a particular beer.
Crimson Dynamo Now on Tap!
Yes, there’s a new addition to our in-house tap list: Crimson Dynamo. This beer is a session red (4.7% ABV) bursting with flavor: amber caramel malts are balanced by Simcoe and Cascade hops. And here’s a pint, on our bar, in all of its glory (and ready for you to try!):
KBS 2011
Bourbon barrels filled with KBS have been aging in the caves beneath our fine city of Grand Rapids for a year and were delivered to our production facility yesterday (see above). The official distribution release date for KBS is the Ides of March (3/15). However, we’re having our KBS release party in our taproom three [...]