Let the spirits move you to Grand Rapids, where excellent local distilleries play a vital role in maintaining the city’s status as America’s Craft Beverage Capital. Whether you enjoy your spirits straight or as an ingredient in a craft cocktail, our distilleries will dazzle and delight your taste buds.
Visit Long Road Distillers, the first distillery in Grand Rapids history, which opened in 2015 and immediately began racking up recognitions, including USA Today nods for the country’s #1 Best Craft Specialty Spirits (2017 and 2018) and #1 Best Craft Brandy (2019), as well as 25+ gold awards in various international spirits competitions.
Discover Eastern Kille Distillery, which has grown by leaps and bounds since its 2016 opening, and now includes a stunning bar and restaurant in the woods of Rockford, 20 minutes from downtown Grand Rapids, and an intimate neighborhood cocktail bar, EK Wealthy, in GR’s hip Uptown neighborhood.
Enjoy crafted-right-here spirits along with Southern-style cuisine, live music and a rooftop deck at Rapid River Stillhouse in the Bridge Street Entertainment District of downtown GR.
See how our Beer City USA breweries have extended their craft expertise to the production of spirits. Archival Brewing, Atwater Brewery, Bier Distillery & Brewery, Broad Leaf Brewery + Spirits, Cedar Springs Brewing Company and Thornapple Brewing Co. are among those distilling their own spirits on site.
Explore craft spirits featuring maple and walnut flavors at Twisted Tap Distillery, with locations in downtown GR and Kentwood. Savor the flavor of moonshine spirits at Michigan Moonshine Distillery in Grandville, 10 minutes from downtown. Sip unique fruit brandies at Moravian Sons Distillery Tasting Room in Lowell, 20 minutes east. See how distinct state terroirs influence flavor at tasting rooms for Mammoth Distilling Cocktail Lounge, a Northern Michigan-based distillery, and Detroit-based Two James Spirits. There are even more distilleries to visit within a 30 to 45-minute drive – see the listings below.
Our local distilleries make extensive use of the area’s natural bounty, including family farm-raised grains and fruits, and the pure, clean water of the Lake Michigan basin. These ingredients are masterfully blended to create whiskeys, vodkas, gins, rums, brandies, liqueurs and other spirits that reflect the character of our land – and testify to the craftsmanship of our distilling community.
