Greenbush Brewing Company
Microbrewery
in Sawyer,
Michigan,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Greenbush Brewing Company
Established in 2011
So with a banjo burner, a bunch of industrial-sized kitchen pots and as many buckets as we could find, we jumped in feet first. Once a week, every week. Now, several years later and with a 15 barrel version of said banjo burner and kitchen pots for a brewhouse, we’re befuddling the beer judges and converting the masses. One pint at a time.
Our original brewing system has a long and sordid history befitting our line of beers. It centers on the second-to-last kettle ever built by noted coppersmith Fred Zaft, a handcrafted, solid copper 7-barrel brew kettle originally housed in a nineteenth century bar in San Francisco’s old Italian neighborhood. At one point, the bar had been totally restored to its past glory, replete with a “self-flushing spittoon” under the bar (yes, it was actually a urinal). Unfortunately, we were not able to get the self-flushing spittoon.
If you think our beers tend to cross various lineages, you’ll love tidbits like the fact that in 1951, our current building endured a freight train derailing and plowing into the building. We hope our beer can make that sort of impact on you.
trapped (8421) reviewed Dunegräs from Greenbush Brewing Company 3 weeks ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Draught @ the brewery. Faintly cloudy amber-copper with a small frothy beige head, faint citrusy aroma, adequate carbonation, bitterish malt forwqard taste with light piney flavor, smooth body, long bitter finish. Decent American IPA.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
Thank you, Jim G.
Reviewed from notes.
Bottle to snifter.
Appearance: black in color with a two finger khaki foamy head which dissipated nicely to leave some mild messy lace
Aroma: sweet cream, dark chocolate, milk chocolate, coffee, whiskey and barrel/woody sweet & spiciness, vanilla, and a light sweet ash further underneath
Flavor: blends the prior noted aromas to a fine sweet to roasty character; finishes chocolatey, woody and vanilla-ish
Texture: medium bodied, great sipper; very smooth along the tongue with a delicate spice to hit the tongue slightly, also a sly dryness on the tongue as well
Overall: a very nicely impy stout well worthy of coming back to.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 16
An endearing light malt and fruity hop nose over a golden brown coloured beer with a fine, frothy white head. A really well blended, refreshing hoppy IPA. Taste profile features kiwi, lemon and other citrus elements in the hop presence. A light biscuity malt combines with the hops for a refreshing, clean mouth feel. Solid balances in this beer. Well done!
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 17
A full light tan head on a dense copper/orange body. Nose features citrus hops, alcohol and malt. This is a nice mix of hops and biscuity malt. The hops morph through a wide range of tastes, including citrus, citrus rind, floral, and a heavier earthier hops finish. The honey and sweet malts balance off the hops well. The medium to thick body and 10.1% abv make this DIPA a real east-coast style meal.
Draught. Clear gold pour from brewery. Pretty good stuff overall with the standard lager notes
Maverick (5091) reviewed Distorter from Greenbush Brewing Company 10 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Draught fromt he brewery. Poured a deep brown, smoky malty bitter notes. Really quite good for the not obscenely high abv.
tricksta_p (13806) reviewed Anger from Greenbush Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from Drankenhandel Leiden. Aroma is roasted malt with fruity and piney hops, chocolate, tropical notes, grapefruit, coffee, citrus. Flavour is moderate sweet with a firm bitterness in the finish. Body is medium. Quite tasty, nicely roasty and hoppy with chocolate, pine, fruits and a solid bitterness.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Drankenspeciaalzaak Jelle, Leeuwarden. Piney and citrussy hop aroma with sweetish orange, malt, and a touch of caramel. Resinous and bittersweet, medium body. Classic oldskool West Coast IPA, tasty. I don't understand the low average.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle from Drankenspeciaalzaak Jelle, Leeuwarden. Unattractive chunky sediment upon pouring. Aroma is non-artificial strawberries with candied fruit and strawberry milkshake. Flavour is sweet and a bit sugary with solid but not overpowering habanero heat. Body is medium. Not as bad as I expected, but the combination of sweet strawberries and chili burn is another example of 'craft beer' taken too far off the main roads.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Drankenhandel Leiden. Aroma is strong resinous hop with pine resin, grapefruit, malt, caramel, touch of toffee, orange, marmalade. Flavour is fairly sweet with a long bittersweet finish and some alcohol. Body is medium to full. Highly resinous and piney with caramel malt, ripe-ish fruits, bit boozy. On its way to being a hoppy Barley Wine, rough around the edges but I really like this resin bomb.