Short's Brewing Company

Regional Brewery in Elk Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Short’s Brewing Company

Established in 2004

Contact
211 Industrial Park Dr, Elk Rapids, MI, 49629, United States
Subsidiaries
Short's Brewing Company owns 2 breweries:
Description
Short's Brewing Company is a brewpub and microbrewery in Bellaire, Michigan, United States. Registered in 2002, the company opened its pub in 2004. In 2008, a production facility in Elk Rapids, Michigan was purchased and renovated to accommodate larger scale batches.

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7.8/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Can from Livonia Liquor. Pours a clear orange gold with a finger of white foam that lingers. Dried orange and grapefruit aromas with some marmalade and toasted caramel. Not overly malty, great bitter, pithy hop notes on the palate. More citrus and apricot followed by a lingering dry pithy finish.
Tried from Can from Livonia Liquor & Fine Wine on 05 Apr 2024 at 02:50

8/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 8 Flavor 7.5 Texture 7 Overall 8
Coffee, dark chocolate malt, and hay aroma. Black with nice brown head. Moderately sweet coffee, chocolate malt, and mildly bitter dry hay flavor. Okay body. Very nice.
Tried from Can on 29 Mar 2024 at 21:19

6.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
12 oz can. Pours a fully hazed yellow with a white head. Herbal, grassy hop aroma. Flavor is herbal hops, grassy, with touches of citrus and a moderate bitterness. It's okay, but not really what I'm looking for in a hazy IPA.
Tried from Can on 24 Mar 2024 at 04:20

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
tap at 800degree pizza in Fort Wayne. THis was weird - a beer that drinks like a cocktail - not a fan
Tried from Draft on 10 Mar 2024 at 00:50

7.6/10
Black and Tan #fail
Tried from Can on 03 Mar 2024 at 16:30

6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Tried on 25 Feb 2024 at 18:30


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Can from Livonia Liquor. Pours a clear copper with a finger of off-white head that dissipates. Celery seed all over the nose floral pepper aromas and biscuit malt. Celery seed is the the loudest on the palate as well with some horseraddish spiciness next to peppercorn and dill on the finish. Boozy with a slightly sweet note underneath but lingering spice from the peppercorns and horseraddish.
Tried from Can on 22 Feb 2024 at 02:25

6.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 6.5
Mostly clear copper and bronze coloured body with a thinnish, one to two centimetre tall off-white and deep tan head that stays afloat nicely over the slightly hazy glow. Aroma of fairly bitter and slightly nutty malt notes with a lot of grass and grain, with only a dash of sweetness, no alcohol and a deep stale note - mostly from the malts. Medium-bodied; Strong nutty and grainy, earthy malts hit at first with a very subdued hop bitterness that is nutty as well and showing an English or European influence with a deep flavour, just not a big pungent bitterness at all, and no real complexity. Aftertaste is pretty dry, without much at all going on, and only a touch of resinous sweetness on the end, but the deeper, herbal flavours do hit, but the grainy malt notes are strongest. Overall, a very East Coastie, older school IPA or even APA that shows a lot of nuts, a good deal of malt/grains, with little sweetness and not much complexity - not a bad beer, but not showing much of anything worthwhile to drink a lot of. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle, purchased from Beer Baron in Livonia, Michigan on 23-October-2022 for US$3,49 and sampled at my house here in Washington on 30-November-2022.
Tried from Bottle on 10 Feb 2024 at 06:56

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Ever so slightly hazy golden coloured body with a faint ghostly white glow, all underneath a one to two centimetre tall just off-white head. Aroma of crisp, grassy and pretty bubble gummy scents come out at first from the fresh hops, with some noticeable malt aromas and a pleasant light tropically sweetness - robust and pungent in the nose. Light-bodied; Grassy and floral notes show at first with a pretty big fruit-based sweetness that hits right behind and gives this a nice balance without any pungent bitterness, but a smooth fruity characteristic. Aftertaste is dry, pretty clean and showing a soft soapy quality towards the end with a mellow malty finish, but the malt, hops, dryness and especially fruit notes all hit nicely together, with a great balance and good profile throughout. Overall, a nice fresh hopped IPA that blends the line on sub-styles and hits nicely across the spectrum, with some noticeable bitterness, but smooth fruit and sweetness and a complex dryness that stays on the palate in a good manner - great to try from my home state of Michigan! I sampled this twelve ounce bottle, purchased from Beer Baron in Livonia, Michigan on 23-October-2022 for US$2,99, sampled at my house here in Washington on 16-November-2022.
Tried from Bottle on 10 Feb 2024 at 06:49