Grand Rapids. Cool City. Great Beer.
We’re grateful to Experience GR for featuring us in their latest video about beer in our hometown (set to music by the Crane Wives, a local group that performs regularly in our taproom):
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July is Michigan Craft Beer Month!
Announcing International #IPADay: A Social Celebration of Craft Beer
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE San Diego, CA – July 7, 2011 – Attention all craft beer evangelists, brewers, bloggers, and suds-savvy citizens! On Thursday, August 4, 2011, you are cordially invited to participate in the largest international craft beer celebration and virtual conversation the world has ever seen. International #IPADay is a grassroots [...]
Thank You for Founders Fest 2011!
KBS + African Elephants
These are our favorite kind of emails to receive: Yo Founders! I just wanted to send you a brief email to tell you that I love your beer. In fact I love KBS so much that I actually brought a bottle to Africa on my honeymoon last year. My wife thought I was nuts bringing [...]
Founders Fest Last Minute Info!
Just over 48 hours remain before our biggest party of the year: Founders Fest! Scroll past the photo of the extra tall Backwoods Bastard that showed up last year to find answers to all of your last minute questions (if you have any others, please feel free to post them in the comments, and we’ll [...]
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.
Guard Dog
This is too fun not to share… Ozim is the dog of Ben Robbins, who works at our Indiana distributor, Cavalier (based in Indianapolis). He’s protecting some fresh cases of Centennial IPA, which had just been delivered to their warehouse. “My two favorite things: Founders Centennial IPA and my dog,” Robbins says. [...]
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 [...]