Three Michigan Breweries Are Hot Commodities Right Now In The U.S.

Breweries are some of the best places to sit back, relax, and chit-chat with some friends while enjoying a fresh ale.

Each brewery has its own unique feel, but some are among the nation's hottest right now. Just in time for National Drink A Beer Day, Thrillist released a list of the hottest breweries around America and three of them are located right here in Michigan.

The list has a variety of breweries ranging from "old-school favorites making new waves to up-and-comers offering destination-worthy pours."

So, which three Michigan breweries are considered to be hot commodities in the states?

City Built in Grand Rapids.

Here is what Thrillist had to say about City Built:

"With Grand Rapids consistently regarded as one of the best beer cities in the country, City Built CEO Edwin Collazo and team have done a stellar job making their name known. With a knack for captivating the eye thanks to award-winning can labels including a recent national winner, Prague Underground, Collazo makes sure the beer warrants the same accolades. From imperial stouts to IPAs, sours, and pilsners, the beers showcase the brewery's inventiveness using an array of spices, exotic fruit, and other adjuncts the right way: balanced and simply delicious."

Another hot brewery in Michigan is HOMES Brewery in Ann Arbor:

"Michigan beer geeks were already hip to HOMES for its sought-after tart IPAs, heavily fruited sours, and hazy IPAs. But then the brewery blew up the hard seltzer market with a curious new product called Smooj. Launched in summer 2020, Smooj—a loose portmanteau of smoothie and juice—can claim most of the credit for the subsequent smoothie seltzer craze that took hard seltzers from clear and bubbly to creamy and fruit-heavy. HOMES is still kicking out cool beers besides Smooj, of course, and dabbling in styles as disparate as rice lagers, triple IPAs, and imperial cream ales."

The third hottest Michigan brewery is Speciation Artisan Ales in Comstock Park:

If you're a fan of wild, fruited, spontaneously fermented, or sour beers, you probably know Denver's Black Project. One of its earliest employees, Mitch Ermatinger, now has his own (non-Denver) brewery at which he's turning out beers in the same vein to similarly rave reviews. Speciation's ales range from tart and acidic to saison-yeast-and-Brett-forward, and about half of them spend some time in the brewery's foeder. A new, upgraded coolship is set to arrive this summer, allowing even more experimentation with wild microbes, and plans for a taproom are gaining momentum."

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