Speciation Artisan Ales

Microbrewery in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Speciation Artisan Ales

Established in 2016

Contact
928 Wealthy St SE, Grand Rapids, MI, 49506, United States
Description
Speciation Artisan Ales takes an evolutionary approach to brewing wild beer, wine, hard seltzer, and cider. We make use of oak aging, innovative ingredients, and a coolship.

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9/10
Magnificent. Puckering sour strawberry, fairly jammy (tho not like Phish). Plenty of wheat but in a funky way. Tastes like it poured straight from a foeder. My first from them and a big hip hip hurray to Mr Thomas J.
Tried from Can on 28 Jun 2021 at 17:43

7.8/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Bottle from Holiday Market. Pours a clearish dark ruby with a small pink head that dissipates. Musty cherry pit aromas with hay, red vinegar and light mineral aromas. Tart cherry fruit on the palate with some dryness from the pits and skins. Lingering cherry on the finish with more funk and mineral notes. Very good.
Tried from Bottle from Holiday Market on 26 Jun 2021 at 00:58

8/10
Super ginger and lime forward, not super pleasant
Tried from Bottle on 25 Jun 2021 at 19:00

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 10 Overall 8
12.7 oz. Aroma has notes of cocoa, peanut butter overripe dark fruit. Pours murky purplish brown with a one finger bone white head with decent retention. Taste is highly sour (10/10) with flavors like the aroma descriptors. A very odd combination of flavors, but it works.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Jun 2021 at 00:23

8.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 10 Overall 8.5
Bottle from Tavour. Muddy pour, light pink with a small airy head. Raspberries first on the aroma, notes of peanut butter. Taste brings in light vanilla, great balance between the berries and peanut butter. Sweet, tart, smooth.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Jun 2021 at 20:26

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle pours out brown topped with a sand fizzy head. Nose is raspberry jam peanut butter vanilla tartness. Taste is more of the nice sweet jammy berries peanut butter tartness.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Jun 2021 at 03:34

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
From backlog. 473ml can. Smooth, slightly sour and tartish with some vanilla, floral notes and citrus, hints of peach and tropical fruits. Pretty smooth. --- Beer merged from original tick of Incipient (Vanilla) on 24 Apr 2021 at 18:22 - Score: 7
Tried from Can on 07 May 2021 at 16:16

8/10
Fruity and tart, blackberries, dry, a bit acidic. Really quite mouth puckering but delicious. Very nice.
Tried from Can on 30 Apr 2021 at 16:33

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Bottle shared at the Spring DC tasting. Poured a hazy red color with a small, kind of light tan head with a small white head. Medley of berries: raspberries, blackberries. Currants. Tart finish.
Tried from Bottle on 23 Apr 2021 at 06:33

7.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 10 Overall 7
750ml bottle pours a deep amber/purple with some swirling pink head. Nose has cherry and raspberry, jammy but also earthy. Flavor is tart with berry, some grapefruit, vanilla too, red grape jelly. Full bodied. Enveloping, tart finish.
Tried from Bottle on 21 Apr 2021 at 15:39