Kalamazoo is a contender in the Beer City USA 2013 vote, alongside the other great Michigan beer cities Grand Rapids and Ann Arbor. We feel that Kalamazoo is already the best beer city in the USA, and that’s part of the reason that we set up shop here. But more than the local beverages that [...]
Boatyard Brewing Company Now Licensed to Sell It’s Unique Michigan Craft Beer
Dan Gilligan and Brian Steele of the Boatyard Brewing Company would like to announce that the brewery has met all state and federal licensing requirements for the operation of a microbrewery. We would like to thank all the great people that have guided us through this past year. Our legal team from Miller Canfield led [...]
Artistic Fermentations Inspired by the Flavors of the Holiday Season
One of the first things you figure out as a brewer is that commercial brewing is all about the numbers. I have always been a left-brained person, so this stark fact gave me great comfort. My left hemisphere was always happy thinking about strike temperatures, attenuation curves, IBU’s, and oxygen concentrations. Keep the numbers where [...]
Behind the Name, Boatyard Brewing Company
In this video provided by the MLive website as part of a great article about the booming craft beer industry in Kalamazoo, Boatyard owners Dan Gilligan and Brian Steele discuss what they love about Michigan and why the Boatyard Brewing Company name fit the brewery.
Boatyard Announces Partnership with Imperial Beverage
Boatyard Brewing Company is pleased to announce that we have reached an agreement with Imperial Beverage of Kalamazoo, Michigan to distribute our products. After numerous meetings with Larry Cekola, Anne Drummond, and Joe Cekola, BBC found a kindred spirit in the family that is Imperial Beverage. Boatyard Brewing has sought to align itself with quality [...]
Tasting and Celebration on September 14th
Save the Date… The Long Awaited Tasting and Celebration at the Boatyard Brewing Company Friday, September 14th at 5 PM Boatyard Brewing Company 432 East Paterson Kalamazoo, MI Dear Friend, Over one year ago Daniel Gilligan and I started on a journey to create an exceptional craft brewery in the city of Kalamazoo. What a journey it [...]
A Perfect Summer Tasting
It was a hot summer evening at 5:00 when they started to arrive. Fans, friends, vendors, equipment manufactures, distributers, and city officials all came together to share the longest day of the year with the Boatyard Brewing Family. Over one hundred people mingled over the lawn as we passed out samples of twelve different ales. It was perfect. The [...]
New Brews at the Summer Solstice Tasting
Last month we introduced our Kalamazoo Cream Ale, Black-Eyed PA and Sunset Amber to our fans at the Summer Solstice Tasting. All three of these were well received by our fans; each finding a niche to satisfy. The Kalamazoo Cream Ale was a big hit, especially with drinkers of light lager beers. The keg was [...]
June’s Experimental Brewing
Despite all of the energy that is going into the rebuilding of 432 East Paterson, we still had time to come up with something new. When we created our Fair Winds Oatmeal Stout, we knew there was another beer to be made; a naughtier, spicier beer. Dan and I put our collective brewing minds together [...]
Ideas A-Brewin’
Over the past few weeks, the braintrust and brewers at the Boatyard Brewing Company have developed a few experimental ales that are going through a series of taste-testings. Sunset Amber: All of our tasters kept clamoring for us to make an amber ale. So we sat down a created our Sunset Amber. We used a pale ale [...]
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