CBS on the Bottling Line
Comin’ atcha… The Founders Family, hard at work on the line!
Brewing
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!
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 [...]
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 [...]
Taproom Closed Sunday and Monday, January 2nd & 3rd
As you may have noticed, we are knee-deep in the process of our expansion, and are currently undergoing a series of interior renovations. As a result of this, the Taproom will be closed Sunday, January 2nd and Monday, January 3rd. We will reopen on Tuesday, January 4th at 4pm and will resume normal business hours, 11am-2am on Wednesday, [...]
Our New Mash/Lauter Tun
Check out our new mash/lauter tun! This photo is from the day it was delivered to our production facility. For those of you who don’t know, a mash/lauter tun is where the malted barley and water are incorporated and the starch converts to fermentable sugars. Our spent grain then goes to a farmer to use [...]