Odd Side Ales is a family of gifted individuals, focused on the shared goal of crafting unique products, while maintaining the utmost quality.
Our story began in 2010, as a micro-brewery producing craft beer from our pub located inside the historic piano factory in Grand Haven, Michigan. We quickly outgrew the pub’s brewing capacity and now, after three different expansions, brew from our own 44,000 sq. ft. facility.
Our main focus is to creatively stay on the leading edge of craft beer styling. While maintaining a large core of year round and seasonal favorites, we strive to introduce new recipes that push the boundaries of flavor combinations and craft beer categories. Everyone at Odd Side Ales is here because they have a true love of craft beer, the industry as a whole, and the people who drink and enjoy what we are able to do each day!
Beyond Michigan, we now distribute to Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. We hope to continue our growth, expanding our reach even further, and share our craft as far as possible!
Can from Livonia Liquor. Pours a clear brown with a finger of off-white head that lingers. Banana, walnut, vanilla and cinnamon all over the nose. More of the same on the palate. Not overly sweet...fairly balanced. Whiskey and oak notes sit in the background, but overall a nice barrel aged beer.
Pours black with a light tan head. The aroma is of bourbon, chocolate, and spice. The flavor is pretty bourbon dominated with underlying chocolate, pepper, and roast malt. Very good.
s: mint (duh) - dark chocolate (double duh!) - cookies a: oily black body - no head at all t: sweet - mint essence/extract - slight coffee p: thin body - rich pungency - bitter o: soft structure - big flavours - deep notes 12 ounce bottle - Merchant's Fine Wines: Dearborn, Michigan - 10-December-2016 - US$5,99 - bottled: 02-October-2016 - sampled: 09-October-2023 (just over 7 years after bottling)
Coffee, milk chocolate malt, and hay aroma. Black with giant brown head. Mildly sweet coffee, milk chocolate malt, and moderately bitter dry grass flavor. Okay body.
Can. Pours a clear gold with a thin head. Aromas of coffee and cream (marshmallow) with just a touch of chocolate in there too. It's a mindscrew because the color is all wrong for that. I do love the blonde coffee ale concept. Flavor starts crisp and clean light ale and then hits with some coffee and then back to clean light ale. I guess I can get some \"s'more flavor\" but it comes across almost more like a sweet and cream-heavy coffee. Decent and interesting, but I can't say I like it more than the original BF.
aroma is chocolate hazelnut bar with coconut, the normal hazel was a tiny bit nicer without the coconut flavor is coconut, chocolate, hazelnuts, roasted malts, faint peppery note. bourbon boozy note.
brewed 2021 I must say delicious aroma of milk chocolate and hazelnuts, I can hardly find any roasted malts or anything else in there, but the hazelnut chocolate aroma is very much present, and very very nice. flavor is chocolate, hazelnuts, faint licorice, bourbon, super nice i must say, perhaps a bit too crazy sweet and chocolatey, but for a sweet imp stout this is one of the better, one of the more interesting. At times a tiny bit boozy and phenolic, but most of the time just sweet chocolate with hazelnuts. next up is the one with marshmallows. even sweeter? ugh.
Can - dark brown pour with a thick and sticky lace - heavy on the maple and coffee, with a touch of bacon smokiness - whiskey notes late - a sharp acidity that seems most likely from the coffee leaves it a little abrasive on the tail end - meh.
Sampled from the tap at GTMW 2023. Pours black with a brown head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has strong cinnamon with a decent amount of vanilla, rye and sweet dark grains backing. Flavor is also cinnamon forward with growing sweet dark grains, roast and a bit of barrel in the finish.