![]() The yield for a true gluten-free beer is a bit different from a regular, malt-based brew, and that is why beers from Brewery Nyx are more expensive. Eventually, they hope to open a tasting room at their production facility on the Southwest side of Grand Rapids. Amy Sherman/For Hearst Midwestįor now, Brewery Nyx beers are only available retail. ![]() The initial release of retail beers was to Bridge Street Market in Grand Rapids, and Brewery Nyx sold out the whole run in just five hours.īrewery Nyx co-owner and head brewer Sebastian Van Bommel pours a stout. They’ve been steadily adding West Michigan retailers as more and more beer is brewed and made available. With a finite budget, the pressure has been growing to get beers out on the shelves, and with the first release in December, Stricklen and Van Bommel finally felt like they were making progress. “It took us the majority of the summer into the fall to get all the major pieces into place,” he explained. They installed a reverse osmosis system, and a boiler “the size of a Jeep Grand Cherokee” according to Van Bommel. Amy Sherman/For Hearst Midwestīrewery Nyx hired a moving company to help them unload the 10-barrel system, and then Strickland and Van Bommel moved the equipment, including four fermenters, around until it felt right. While there were logistical delays in getting equipment delivered, they weren't where many would think they'd occur. “It was kind of astonishing how much time that took,” Van Bommel said. And then, when it was so close to home, the equipment sat in Chicago for three more weeks. From China to Los Angeles, to Chicago, it only took the brewing equipment three weeks to transit. This is actually a surprisingly quick build for a brewery, especially during a pandemic. “So from cradle to grave, from getting into the building until we got our MLCC approval, we were about 9 months.” “The brewhouse arrived mid-May,” Van Bommel said. SPONSORED: Some breweries featured on this map may be advertisers. The point is that they ripped this space to shreds, and then rebuilt everything, from underground up. I visited in mid-March and walked into what was essentially a giant pit, with piles of dirt everywhere, construction equipment scattered around, and a small table at one end set up as an office/tasting area. 1, 2021, and quickly proceeded to not just gut the space, but completely dig up all the floors in order to lay the necessary plumbing for the brewhouse. The partners took custody of the building on Feb. Van Bommel said that the very first batch of the lager and the stout are exactly what is on sale on shelves now.īrewery Nyx labels feature beautiful art. The gluten-free beer? Most of those recipes took just one take to get right. The duo originally had a plan to open in the summer of 2021 but building out the brewery and getting ready for production took a bit more time. ![]() ![]() Van Bommel has over 18 years of brewing experience and was most recently the head brewery at Thornapple Brewing Company. He owns the brewery with his business partner Jessica Stricklen, who comes from a wine background, and has been gluten-free for 10 years. I caught up with him and the brewery’s progress the very first day they had their beer out on the shelves in Grand Rapids in December. ![]()
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