If you love beer, you owe yourself a trip to Grand Rapids.

Grand Rapids has been known as Beer City USA since 2012. USA Today crowned it America’s Best Beer City in 2022, 2023 and 2024. The Beer City Ale Trail, a guide to the area’s 35+ craft breweries, was named one of America’s Top 11 Food & Drink Trails by TimeOut in 2024.

You’ll find a wide range of beer styles and flavors here, from recreations of historic and forgotten brews to sweeter-tasting concoctions catering to today’s evolving palates. Most are made with as many fresh, local ingredients as possible, starting with cool, clean Lake Michigan water.

Plot your own course along the Ale Trail take a guided tour to taste the Grand Rapids craft beer difference for yourself. Be sure to bring the Beer City Brewsader® passport app with you for fun challenges and free prizes. With dozens of breweries around town, you’ll want to visit again and again!

Search Breweries

Click on the brewery links below to discover which beverages they make on-site. You’ll see them listed under “All Amenities.” When you find a brewery you want to visit, click on “My Trip” at the top of the page. It will create a running list of breweries for you. You can use My Trip to add attractions and events to your itinerary, too.

Beyond Beer

Many Grand Rapids breweries produce a variety of craft beverages in addition to beer – including hard cider, hard seltzer, wine and spirits. They do it so well that USA Today calls us America’s Craft Beverage Capital as well as America’s Best Beer City.

Grand Rapids is also a great food city – one of the nation’s top 20 Foodie Cities, per a WalletHub ranking. Many of our breweries serve up incredibly tasty meals to pair with their beers. Check out this Local’s Guide to Breweries with Great Food.

Drink Local, Get Prizes

Get the Beer City Brewsader® app and use it to check in to at least eight local breweries, and you’ll earn a FREE exclusive t-shirt. Use it to check in to 30+ breweries and you’ll also get a FREE t-shirt and other cool perks.

Sign up for the Flights of Flavor pass to find local beer flights, beer-and-food flights and other delectable combinations. Each flight order earns points that you can redeem for fun prizes.

Addison Causley for Experience GR The Mitten Brewing Company Beer & Pizza Flight

Flights of Flavor

Flights of Flavor are unique food and/or drink pairings that let you sample multiple flavors at once. You'll find them at some of the area's best restaurants and breweries - and you'll get rewarded for trying them!