Watervliet Happy Hour

It seems like our stops today are all about 30 minutes apart, and this stop we find ourselves in Watervliet, MI at Arclight Brewing. It's a huge flight - six 6oz tasters starting with the citra sun summer wheat. It's light, crisp and a little citrusy. Very drinkable...thirst quenching. The cream ale and blonde were also very good. The blonde was light and fruity-sweet. I skipped ahead right to the IPA which was very mild, also sweet and had fruity notes to it. The aroma was kind of like skittles or fruit loops...clearly an IPA for folks that don't like IPAs - Roger :-)  

The remaining samples were the cherry wit and Velvet Elvis Peanut Butter Porter. Yeah, I know...not really our thing...but hey doesn't it sound interesting? Plus, we needed one more to complete the flight of 6. :-). Anywhoo, just got done chatting with one of the owners, Dave. He had several suggestions for the rest of this evening and confirmed this building used to be a car dealership. He and his partner are laying a paver patio out back today instead of brewing :-).

Back to the Elvis...light peanut butter flavor with maybe just a hint of banana. Maybe :-) no coffee flavor which Terri was happy about ;-)

Last one was the cherry wit...much better than the one at our last stop, Saugutuck. Light, refreshing. Reminded me of the first year version of Granite City's blueberry ale...except cherry of course. Very good. Could sit on their patio and drink a lot of it :-) But unfortunately need to finish up and head down the road ;-)

Unlike a lot of the breweries we've hit on this trip, Arclight was pretty easy to find. Hard to miss the big black building with "BREWERY" painted on the front located right on the main hi way through town. Lol. Looks like it may have been a service station or car dealership in a former life.