This one is for all of you thirsty hikers out there. If you’re anything like me, then you probably like to enjoy a tall, cold, refreshing giggle water after a nice long hike…or even during your journey. If you’re a thru-hiker trekking the North Country Trail for days or weeks at a time or even just day-hiking a portion of the longest National Scenic Trail in the United States, it may be of some interest to you that Michigan’s Lower Peninsula definitely caters to you thirsty hikers. With 11 breweries, beerhouses, microbreweries, brew factories, or whatever you want to call it, you know that someone was thinking about you when they chose to set up shop along the trail. It’s like they knew you were coming and brewed a perfect craft beer just for you after your adventurous expedition or your jaunt through the forest.

This is only the first of a long list of Trail Brews posts that I will be writing about in the future as the list of craft breweries along the nation’s greatest trails is way too long to discuss in just one article. I will be breaking it down state by state in future posts. So, if you’re planning on hoofing it through some of Michigan’s most beautiful towns and wilderness,

breathtaking rivers and lakes, on the North Country National Scenic Trail, and plan to stop in for a cold one, then here is where I can be of some assistance to you. I give you Trail Brews of the North Country Trail in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula.