Earthen Ales

Microbrewery in Traverse City, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Earthen Ales

Established in 2016

Contact
1371 Gray Dr, #200, Traverse City, MI, 49684, United States
Subsidiaries
Earthen Ales owns 1 brewery:
Description
What happens when two brewers fall in love? This is what happens: you start by brewing more beer than you know what to do with. Then you move on to talking about quitting your day jobs and opening your own brewery together. And then, if you’re lucky, that’s what actually happens.

Earthen Ales started out as Jamie and Andrew Kidwell-Brix, and we like to make beer. No, seriously. We really like to make beer, so we were making more than we could drink ourselves. So we invited over our friends, and still we had too much beer, so we decided we needed more friends, and that is where you come in. We opened Earthen Ales to share our beer with you, dear reader.

And we will always be thankful to everyone that helped by contributing to our crowdfunding campaign!

What kind of beer do we make? We like to brew beer that reminds us of places we’ve lived, places we’ve visited, and the friends we’ve made along the way. More importantly, we like to brew beer that brings people together here in beautiful Northern Michigan.

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6.9
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

16 oz can from the brewery. Pours a clear red brown with an off-white head. Roasty toasty aroma, nutty, coffee. Flavor is light, roasty malt, coffee, nutty, lightly smoky. Pleasant.

Tried from Can at Earthen Ales on 12 Oct 2025 at 02:12


7.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

16 oz can from the brewery. Pours yellow with very slight haze and a white head. Pilsner malt aroma with some herbal hops. Flavor leads with a hoppy herbal, earthy edge and a nice light bitterness alongside the pilsner malt. Well made.

Tried from Can at Earthen Ales on 11 Oct 2025 at 02:38


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Tried from Draft at Earthen Ales on 10 May 2025 at 04:00


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Tried from Draft at Earthen Ales on 10 May 2025 at 04:00


7.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Tried from Draft at Earthen Ales on 22 Dec 2023 at 22:57


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at Earthen Ales. An amber pour with a white head. Red grape/raisin in the aroma, apple. Flavors of red grade, apple, caramel, with an interesting smokiness. Quite good.

Tried from Draft on 02 Jul 2023 at 03:29


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at Earthen Ales. Pours a clear golden yellow with a white head. Muted fruit (citrus/berry) aroma. Flavor is citrus hoppy, herbal hops. Pretty solid.

Tried from Draft on 02 Jul 2023 at 03:27


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at Earthen Ales. Pours yellow with a light haze and a thin white head. Herbal hop aroma, lightly sweet with biscuit. Herbal, peppery, spicy hop flavors, nicely bitter. Pretty good.

Tried from Draft on 02 Jul 2023 at 03:22


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at Earthen Ales. Pours a clear gold with a white head. Aromas of apple, honey, bready biscuit. Flavors of apple, herbal hops and spicy hops, toasty biscuit. This is really well-done.

Tried from Draft on 02 Jul 2023 at 03:20


7.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Tried from Draft at Earthen Ales on 15 Jan 2023 at 00:41