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Founders Brewing Company

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3.98/5
Very Good
138,972 Ratings

PLACE INFO

Type: Brewery, Bar, Eatery, Beer-to-go

235 Grandville Ave SW
Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49503
United States

(616) 776-1195 | map
foundersbrewing.com

Notes:
Mahou San Miguel has a 30% ownership stake since 2014.

Monday - Saturday: 11am - 2am
Sunday: 12pm - 12am
Non-smoking Indoors, huge front porch for smoking. (heated winter room coming!)
Much larger room, with huge 25-seat custom mahogany bar.
Expanded Deli Menu and Hours:
Monday - Saturday: 11am-11pm
Sunday: 12pm-11pm
Store: 12pm-8pm
Live Music Thursdays and Saturdays featuring Stage, House PA and Sound
Pool Table, Real Dart Board, and Shuffleboard.

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BEER STATS

Beers:: 108
Reviews:: 32,977
Ratings:: 138,972

PLACE STATS

BA Score:: 4.54/5
Reviews:: 322
Ratings:: 1,110
pDev:: 10.13%

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Beers: Current (108) | Archived (305) | All

Name	Style	ABV	Ratings	Score	Yours
10K IPA	American Double / Imperial IPA	9.10	87	4.19	-
All Day IPA	American IPA	4.70	7,415	3.87	-
All In IPA	American IPA	6.50	5	4.16	-
Angelic Revenge	Belgian Strong Dark Ale	8.40	15	3.94	-
Apricot Wheat	Fruit / Vegetable Beer	5.80	12	3.78	-
Arianna Piccola Lager	American Pale Lager	4.80	3	3.98	-
Azacca IPA	American IPA	7.00	1,556	3.9	-
Backwoods Bastard	Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy	11.20	8,442	4.35	-
Bale Finder IPA	American IPA	6.70	4	3.87	-
Barrel Runner	American Double / Imperial IPA	11.10	0	0	-
Barrel-Aged Baltic Porter	Baltic Porter	9.40	4	4.23	-
Barrel-Aged Rum And Hops Thang	American Double / Imperial IPA	9.30	14	3.8	-
Barrel-Aged Smoked Apple Ale	Fruit / Vegetable Beer	9.10	5	4.17	-
Beer City IPA	American IPA	6.00	9	3.87	-
Black Rye	Rye Beer	7.50	1,604	4.02	-
Blushing Monk	Fruit / Vegetable Beer	9.20	2,308	4.19	-
Brandankulous	American Double / Imperial IPA	11.70	18	4.15	-
Breakfast Stout	American Double / Imperial Stout	8.30	17,025	4.51	-
Bronto Brown Porter	American Porter	6.60	2	3.77	-
Brown Honey Bunny	American Brown Ale	6.20	1	5	-
Carlson's Cherrywood Rye	American IPA	7.60	1	4.04	-
CBS (Canadian Breakfast Stout)	American Double / Imperial Stout	11.70	5,518	4.66	-
Centennial IPA	American IPA	7.20	8,498	4.13	-
Cerise	Fruit / Vegetable Beer	6.50	1,505	3.62	-
Cerveza Especial	American Adjunct Lager	5.50	1	3.75	-
Chestnut Mountain Brown	American Brown Ale	7.60	1	4.03	-
Citra Gold	American Pale Ale (APA)	4.00	3	3.58	-
Crazpberry Sawce	Fruit / Vegetable Beer	7.20	6	3.27	-
Cryoats IPA	American IPA	7.00	2	4.05	-
CTRL ALT Delete	Altbier	3.30	7	3.68	-
Curly's Vienna Lager	Vienna Lager	5.40	2	3.57	-
Curmudgeon	Old Ale	9.80	4,805	4.03	-
Curmudgeon - Bourbon Barrel-Aged	Old Ale	11.10	38	4.24	-
Curmudgeon's Better Half	Old Ale	11.90	1,055	4.31	-
Dankwood	American Double / Imperial IPA	12.20	205	4.1	-
Dark Penance	American Black Ale	8.90	2,546	4.04	-
Dirty Bastard	Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy	8.50	7,726	4.05	-
Doom	American Double / Imperial IPA	12.40	2,220	4.08	-
Double Trouble	American Double / Imperial IPA	9.40	6,444	4.2	-
Equinot IPA	American IPA	7.50	1	4.13	-
Fest Wheat	American Pale Wheat Ale	?	36	4.01	-
Festivus Wheat	American Pale Wheat Ale	6.60	10	3.72	-
Freestyle Stout	American Stout	6.50	4	3.85	-
French Quarter Stout	American Stout	7.70	2	4.06	-
Frootwood	Fruit / Vegetable Beer	8.00	729	3.95	-
Fuzzy Sweater	American Pale Wheat Ale	6.50	4	3.95	-
Gail's Pale Ale	American Pale Ale (APA)	8.00	1	3.96	-
German Confusion	American Blonde Ale	6.60	3	3.83	-
Golden Naked Stout	American Stout	6.80	3	3.91	-
Gose	Gose	4.60	3	3.9	-
Green Zebra Gose	Gose	4.60	378	3.89	-
Harvest Ale	American IPA	7.60	4,575	4.25	-
Honey Wheat	American Pale Wheat Ale	?	41	3.69	-
Huns and Roses	American Blonde Ale	4.70	3	3.43	-
Imperial Lime Gose - Barrel-Aged	Gose	10.10	3	4.11	-
Imperial Stout	Russian Imperial Stout	10.50	7,918	4.36	-
Imperial Stout - Barrel-Aged	Russian Imperial Stout	12.60	47	4.57	-
Imperial Tropicus	American Double / Imperial IPA	8.40	1	4.04	-
KBS (Kentucky Breakfast Stout)	American Double / Imperial Stout	12.30	13,176	4.6	-
Knights Who Say "NE"	American IPA	6.60	3	3.92	-
Kölsch	Kölsch	4.30	14	3.63	-
Lemondrop IPA	American IPA	6.60	20	3.73	-
Lizard Of Koz	American Double / Imperial Stout	10.50	869	3.86	-
Looking Glass	American Double / Imperial IPA	11.10	42	4.19	-
Low Gas Pale Ale	American Pale Ale (APA)	?	4	3.5	-
Mackinaw Fudge Donkey Stout	American Stout	7.00	79	4.26	-
Mango Magnifico	Fruit / Vegetable Beer	10.00	1,555	3.6	-
MI Copper Red	American Amber / Red Ale	6.20	1	3.75	-
Mosaic Promise	American Pale Ale (APA)	5.50	2,255	4.05	-
Mothership Series: Red's Rye IPA	American IPA	6.60	0	0	-
Mothership Series: Sleeper Cell	American Double / Imperial IPA	10.80	138	4.21	-
Munich Man	Märzen / Oktoberfest	6.50	8	3.37	-
Oatmeal Stout	Oatmeal Stout	4.50	1,110	3.85	-
Paisley Park Pomegranate	Fruit / Vegetable Beer	7.00	12	3.89	-
Pale Ale	American Pale Ale (APA)	5.40	2,912	3.69	-
Pale Joe	American Pale Ale (APA)	5.40	344	3.93	-
Palm Reader	American Pale Ale (APA)	5.40	118	3.8	-
PC Pils	American Pale Lager	5.50	682	3.83	-
Porter	American Porter	6.50	7,563	4.25	-
Porter - Bourbon Barrel-Aged With Maple	American Porter	12.90	7	4.48	-
Porter - Bourbon-Soaked Oak Staves And Maple Extract	American Porter	7.00	1	4	-
Porter - Port Wine Barrel-Aged	American Porter	7.50	1	4.06	-
Project PAM	American Black Ale	10.80	1,054	4.2	-
Red's Rye IPA	Rye Beer	6.60	5,269	4.18	-
ReDANKulous	American Double / Imperial IPA	9.50	1,613	4.13	-
ReDANKulous - Boubon Barrel-Aged	American Double / Imperial IPA	9.50	26	4.12	-
Rocktoberfest	Märzen / Oktoberfest	5.40	5	3.74	-
Rübæus	Fruit / Vegetable Beer	5.70	3,644	3.88	-
Seis Estrellas	American Pale Lager	8.60	3	3.98	-
Skeleton Key	Schwarzbier	5.50	4	3.91	-
Smaug IPA	American IPA	7.80	3	3.93	-
Solid Gold	American Adjunct Lager	4.40	307	3.68	-
Spectra Trifecta	Kölsch	5.90	282	3.62	-
Spite - Barrel-Aged With Hungarian Wax	Herbed / Spiced Beer	7.90	8	3.81	-
Strawberry Rhubarb Randi	Fruit / Vegetable Beer	3.70	1	3.74	-
Sumatra Mountain Brown	American Brown Ale	9.00	1,689	4.29	-
Sumatra Mountain Brown - Barrel-Aged	American Brown Ale	11.80	57	4.59	-
Sweet Repute	Wheatwine	12.60	1,115	4.17	-
Tank Bender	Eisbock	15.00	39	4.26	-
Trigo	American Pale Lager	6.30	0	0	-
Trigo IPL	American Pale Lager	6.10	14	3.88	-
Werewolf Lazer Circus	American Brown Ale	6.80	5	3.83	-
West Side WLC	American Brown Ale	?	1	3.45	-
Winter Spice Black	Winter Warmer	4.90	2	3.86	-
Witchcraft Baltic Porter	Baltic Porter	6.40	8	3.97	-
Ziffy Whomper	Winter Warmer	6.40	13	3.4	-
Zuper Hophead	American IPA	5.60	17	3.74	-
Zythos IPA	American IPA	7.20	7	3.99	-

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