Founders Brewing Company

Founders Brewing Co. today announced plans to expand distribution into the four major metropolitan areas of Tennessee with a network of distributors. Beginning in April, the Grand Rapids, Mich.-based brewery’s year-round and seasonal offerings will be available on draft throughout Nashville, Memphis, Chattanooga, and Knoxville, with bottles arriving in subsequent shipments.

Grand Rapids, MI – We are delighted to announce the launch of Founders Brewing Co on draught in the UK. The first kegs will be served from March 13th in a select group of accounts with a wider roll out later in the year.

Founders Brewing Co. is expanding its distribution footprint to include Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Arkansas, the company announced today. Beer is slated to hit retail shelves and tap lines throughout each of the new markets this April. Founders, which has expanding quickly of late from its home base in Grand Rapids, Mich., has signed distribution agreements… Read more »

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.— Founders Brewing Co. is launching a new mobile app in the App Store and Google Play today.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.— Founders Brewing Co. is happy to announce that they’re doing something a bit different for their release of Kentucky Breakfast Stout (KBS) this year.

Add Founders Brewing to the growing list of craft breweries now producing more than 100,000 barrels annually (there’s 30 of them). The Grand Rapids, Mich,-based brewery cranked out 111,000 barrels in 2013, a 63-percent uptick from the 70,800 it produced in 2012. In fact, over the last six years, Founders has averaged a compounded annual… Read more »

It’s not a full suitcase, but Founders Brewing’s new 15-pack of All Day IPA is halfway there and might even fit in an overhead bin. The Grand Rapids, Mich.-based craft brewery today announced it will begin shipping canned 15-packs of its 4.7 percent session IPA to distributors in March, one year after the company first… Read more »

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Founders Brewing Co. will introduce Smoked Porter, brewed with a combination of beech wood—smoked barley and oak-smoked wheat malt along with a generous helping of chocolate malt, on shelves and draft lines beginning in February 2014. Like all Founders’ Backstage Series beers, Smoked Porter will be sold in 750mL bottles, with… Read more »

For the brewer and the drinker, the act of delving beyond the familiar creates one of the most alluring dimensions of the craft beer movement. Brewers aiming to reach this point — to define a brewery by its fabric and its fibers, rather than outside fashion — continue to make porters and stouts. And as drinkers gradually dismiss the psychological hindrances of darker beer, the creations register.

Most arguments can be settled over a couple beers. That is, of course, unless the beer industry is spearheading the offensive. The Chicago Tribune has the story of how beer lobbyists have started a fight with Wall Street over an aluminum market rigged to line the pockets of big banks. As the Tribune explains, the… Read more »

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., November 1, 2013 — Founders Brewing Co. has created a special label for its Pale Ale in honor of the christening of the Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) aircraft carrier, named for the 38th President of the United States who grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. During the week of November 3,… Read more »

All eyes were focused on D.G. Yuengling last week as news broke that the brewery was eyeing new distribution in the New England market. Yuengling distributes nearly 3 million barrels of beer across a 15-state footprint, but that could change next year with a return to Massachusetts, a state where it hasn’t sold beer since… Read more »

Rapidly growing Founders Brewing Co. today announced that it is expanding its distribution territory to include Kansas and Nebraska. The Michigan-based craft brewery, ranked as the 29th largest in the country by trade group the Brewers Association, has inked distribution agreements with three wholesalers.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Founders Brewing Co. will introduce Sweet Repute, a wheat wine aged in maple syrup bourbon barrels, this December to mark the eighth installment in the brewery’s popular Backstage Series. Like all Founders Backstage Series beers, Sweet Repute will be sold in 750mL bottles. It has a suggested retail price of $17.99—$19.99… Read more »