Speciation Artisan Ales

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

Established in 2016

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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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7.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle. Pours a cloudy orange gold with medium off white head that lasts. The aroma is strong lime, passionfruit, citrus. Slick body, similar flavors to nose, puckering sour, very good.
Tried from Bottle on 21 Nov 2022 at 01:22

7.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Bottle shared by Ryan: blond color with small head. Aroma is lemon, funk, flowers, vinegar. Taste is fairly acidic, but not immediately heartburn inducing. Nice fruity notes. Enjoyable.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Nov 2022 at 14:56

7.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8.5
Bottle, at share, thanks to Ryan. Pours gold. Funk, lemon, floral, grain, very acidic. Medium body. Very nice.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Nov 2022 at 04:23

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Bottle, at share, thanks to Ryan. Pours dull red. Blueberry, coconut, vanilla, marshmallow, sour, funky tart blueberry. Medium body. Nice.
Tried from Bottle on 24 Sep 2022 at 21:43

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Bottle sample at a Yana's tasting at Max's place. Cloudy yellow. Passion fruit, lime, pickled vegetables, lacto, some vanilla, sour.
Tried from Bottle on 16 Sep 2022 at 20:21

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Fairly cloudy and hazy golden coloured body with a very large, four to five centimetre tall off-white large-bubbled head that dies down quickly - pretty ugly and no lacing at all remains on the side of the glass at all. Aroma of super funky, soured, bretty, lactobilly and even spontaneous fermentation notes come out with some light blackberries, raspberries and oak notes along with a kick of peaches and caster sugar at the end - very nice in the nose and quite funky, of course. Light to Medium-bodied; Assertive effervescence; Strong funky and tart notes dominate up front that pucker the mouth and bring out a nice fruit and soured complexity to the palate with a dry malt and grain kick as well, but the oaky, cedar and dry foeder notes dominate the rest of this one. Aftertaste shows some funkiness of course, mainly from the soured and spontaneously fermented notes with a lot of fruit flavours drying out the palate with raspberries, lemons, tangerines, grapefruits and yes, pure vinifera grapes (white wine) coming through the end with a oaky, cedar note and some very light malts. Overall, a nice, complex beer with a lot of oaky, dry notes that sit above the foeder and soured, tart fruit flavours with a lot of room in the middle for the soft malts, light sugars and complex yeasts to roam as this ages. Great to sample and while funky, complex and deep, this isn't an amazing beer that everyone should sample immediately. I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Everyday Wines in Ann Arbor, Michigan on 02-August-2021 for US$5,50 sampled at my house here in Washington a bit more than 13 months later, at the start of this college football season, while a long way from Ann Arbor, still close in heart, on 05-September-2022.
Tried from Can on 06 Sep 2022 at 07:42

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Fat på Brewskival 2022, lör. Gul disig med vit krona. Doftar av roobios. Smakar rooibos, snällt gräsigt/blommigt, vete, nästan lite sälta? Funk, låg syra. Helt ok.
Tried on 15 Aug 2022 at 20:39

7.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
2021 bottle.
Tried from Bottle on 15 Aug 2022 at 19:52

7.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Bottle
Tried from Bottle on 15 Aug 2022 at 19:50

8.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8
Fat på Brewskival 2022, fre. Ljusröd, disig med vit krona. Röda bär, röda druvor, druvskal, jordgubb, citron och lime. Stramt, friskt, pigg syrligt. Piggt och gott.
Tried on 15 Aug 2022 at 16:03