A brewery hall with steel tanks behind long tables under industrial windows
A brewery hall with steel tanks behind long tables under industrial windows

Cold lager from
the old foundry.

Taproom daily from noon

1120 Leonard St NW

Est. 2016

Tap Flight $14

A bartender filling a glass of amber beer from a row of steel taps
A bartender filling a glass of amber beer from a row of steel taps

Fall 2026 tap list

Eight taps
from one brewhouse.

Pull up a stool at the long bar or carry the flight out to the beer garden. Four 5 oz pours take about half an hour, and nobody will rush you.

$14

The Tap Flight

Four year-round pours, about 30 minutes

Helles lager, 4.8%

Leonard Street Lager

Bread crust, honey, clean finish

Pint $6, 4-pack $12

Pale ale, 5.6%

Fish Ladder Pale Ale

Orange peel, pine, cracker malt

Pint $7, 4-pack $14

Hazy IPA, 6.4%

Cold Front Hazy

Mango, peach, soft and juicy

Pint $8, 4-pack $16

Kettle sour, 5.0%

Tart Cherry Sour

Michigan cherries, lime, bright

Pint $8, 4-pack $16

or

$22

The Brewer Flight

Four stronger pours, about 45 minutes, seated

West Coast IPA, 6.8%

Six Bridges IPA

Grapefruit, resin, firm bitterness

Pint $7, 4-pack $14

Oatmeal stout, 6.2%

Furnace Stout

Cocoa, coffee, oat silk

Pint $7, 4-pack $14

Bourbon barrel stout, 11.2%

Barrel-Aged Furnace

From the barrel room, 5 oz pour only

Poured with the flight

Wheatwine, 9.5%

Grand River Wheatwine

Caramel, apricot, 12 oz bottle

Bottle $14

Served with a warm pretzel, beer cheese and spicy mustard.

Flight fee comes off any 4-pack. Mug Club members get a free flight every visit.

Barrel-Aged Furnace, bourbon barrels

1,200 bottles filled

100

Fourteen months
in bourbon barrels.

Batch 100 of Furnace Stout went into twelve Kentucky bourbon barrels in July 2025 and came out this September. It is thick and warm, and it only pours on Fridays until the bottles run out.

Brewed

July 9, 2025

In bourbon barrels

14 months

ABV

11.2%

Bottle

$18

Beers.

(06)

Six beers on tap all year and in cans to go. Every one is poured at the bar before it goes into a can.

One brew day,
from grain to glass.

Head brewer Maya Okafor brews twice a week on a 15-barrel system. A lager takes ten weeks from this morning to your pint; a hazy takes about two.

Grain being stirred in an open copper mash tun

6 AM

Mash in

Two thousand pounds of Michigan malt meet 160°F water in the mash tun.

Steam rising from the open hatch of a steel brew kettle

9 AM

The boil

The wort boils for an hour. Bittering hops go in at the start, aroma hops at the end.

Green hop cones hanging from the bine

11 AM

Hop stand

Whole-cone Michigan hops steep for 30 minutes while the kettle cools down.

A long aisle between tall steel fermentation tanks

Now

1 PM

Ferment

Cooled wort drops into the tank, and the yeast is working by dinner.

Fresh hop cones on a leafy bine in soft light

Day 14

Dry hop

The IPAs get a second charge of hops in the tank for three days.

Beer poured from a dark can into a glass

Day 21

Can

The canning line runs Thursday mornings. Fresh cans hit the cooler by noon.

A long wooden bar with stools and warm lights in a taproom

The long bar.

Twenty stools and twenty taps in a 1912 foundry on Leonard Street. Walk in any day from noon; last call is 30 minutes before close.

Tap Flight $14

Daily from noon

Rows of bourbon barrels in a dim barrel room

The barrel room.

Thirty seats among the bourbon barrels, a Brewer Flight poured straight from the tank and a pretzel board. Book it for birthdays, teams and anyone who asks a lot of questions.

Barrel room $30

2 hours

A beer garden under trees strung with warm lights at night

The beer garden.

Picnic tables under string lights, a food truck on weekends and lawn games. Bring the dog, and come back for trivia on Wednesdays.

Open May to October

Trivia Wednesdays at 7

Your own mug
on the wall,
all year long.

Tier

Includes

Discount

Per year

Pint

20 oz pours

10% off cans to go

$60

Growler

Plus 4 growler fills

15% off cans to go

$120

Barrel

Plus 4 barrel releases

20% off cans to go

$220

Every member gets a numbered mug on the wall, a free flight on every visit and a seat at the release parties in March and October.

Four nights
at the brewery this fall.

Barrels resting on their sides in a quiet concrete room

“We brew the lager the slow way. Ten weeks cold, because that extra month is the whole beer.”

Maya Okafor, head brewer since 2016

A brick factory building with a tall chimney in evening light

The chimney is on
Leonard Street.

Taproom

Daily from noon, late on Fridays and Saturdays

Address

1120 Leonard St NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49504

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