Michigan’s craft beer boom is over, but these survivors aren’t tapped out

While rising costs and post-pandemic consumer trends have caused many Michigan microbrewers to close for good, those that are staying open are doing so by adding beverages beyond beer and leaning heavily into their roles as community gathering places.

Craft beer today looks very different from the boom of the 2010s, when it seemed like a new brewery was opening every week, and all they needed was a new IPA to bring in customers.