Detroit-made craft beer continues to spill across the city, with a brewery opening Friday and as many as six other brewery taprooms coming soon.

Eastern Market, historically home to multiple breweries, including iconic Stroh Brewery Co., welcomes its first in decades on Friday: Eastern Market Brewing Co. opens at 6 p.m. at 2515 Riopelle.

About 10 beers will be on tap, including three IPAs – one of them in the trending, juicy New England style – a saison, a kolsch, a hefeweizen, a stout and a cherry porter.

Four friends from college partnered to open the brewery in a two-story brick building built in 1929. Dayne Bartscht of Ann Arbor, along with Paul Hoskin, Devin Drowley and Brad Silverman, all about 30 years old, went to Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., together. They'd initially hatched a plan to start brewing in a barn Bartscht has in Ann Arbor. But while visiting Eastern Market a few years ago, they noticed a building was available.

The brewery will operate in a 2,500 square-foot space in the building, with a 2,600 square-foot rooftop biergarten planned to open by summer 2019.

"We know of at least nine breweries that operated in Eastern Market over the past 150 years, many of which closed during the Prohibition," Bartscht said in an e-mail. "We hope that our beers can help re-establish some of the traditional styles created by German and Belgian settlers in the neighborhood, while also being experimental, using fresh local market ingredients to innovate and push the boundaries of craft beer in Detroit."

The brewery has an elephant for its logo, a nod to the animal's social, collaborative tendencies. Also, it's known as a symbol of good luck.

A food truck called "The Elephant Shack" is expected to debut in November, offering international street-food options that can be ordered at the bar. Customers are also welcome to bring in outside food, Bartscht said.

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Founders Brewing Co.

Announced last spring while nearby Little Caesars Arena was under construction, the highly anticipated taproom from one of Michigan's biggest breweries is slated to arrive this winter.

Located at 456 Charlotte St., just north of the Masonic Temple in the Cass Corridor, it will be the first-ever taproom outside the Grand Rapids-based brewery's headquarters. It's expected to employ about 100 people, primarily local residents, with construction under way. A job fair was held in September, but the company remains mum about the opening date.

It's expected to make about 200 barrels of unique, local beer per year, with the rest coming from the Grand Rapids brewery.

Black Bottom Brewing Co.

This artisanal, small-scale brewery is schedule to open next summer in Corktown.

Initially slated to open in a building on Trumbull and Howard shared with Le Petit Zinc restaurant, the brewery had to change plans when the restaurant was forced out of the building. Now, they're working together to build a restaurant and brewery – the latter from the ground up – Black Bottom co-owner Sean Murphy said.

His Black Bottom Brew Club hosted an event on National Homebrewing Day, inviting people to participate in a guided process to brew their own beer using all-Michigan ingredients. According to the Black Bottom Brewing website:

"We're dedicated as much to the art of craft brewing as we are to the concept of localizing sustainable ingredients and contributing to our community. Our mission is producing a line of distinctive Detroit-style craft beers made from hops and grains grown as close to Detroit as possible. A portion of our profits annually will be reinvested back into our community through our support of community arts and renewal and revitalization projects."

Meanwhile, Murphy encourages people to find their beer through events posted on Facebook and Instagram.

"Until we open publicly and are able to sell our product, B3 beer is only available at the fund-raisers we support. Literally, the only way to get our beer right now is to help us support Detroit," he said.

Rosedale Beer and Bistro

The restaurant and brewpub co-founded by award-winning Detroit Beer Co. head brewer Justin Riopelle is to open in early 2018 in northwest Detroit.

"With limited full-service restaurant and bar options in northwest Detroit, Rosedale Beer & Bistro will fill a significant void in the densely populated Grandmont-Rosedale area," according to a news release.

Co-owners are Derrick A. Collins, an experienced chef, and Josh Guitar, a restaurateur who lives nearby in North Rosedale Park.

Batch Brewing Co.'s north end taproom

Corktown-based Batch Brewing Co. opened roughly two years ago and quickly became popular with small-batch, high-quality brews. Now it's planning to double production, with an emphasis on wild sours, and open another taproom at 2841 E. Grand Blvd.

Brewing operations in the new space will be focused on wild fermentation – which often uses strains of yeast from the local environment, as opposed to more traditional yeast cultures – to make sour beers and ciders. Because cross-contamination can bring unexpected results to conventional beers, brewers prefer to make wild sours in a separate location.

By late spring, it's expected to begin hosting events, with a taproom opening perhaps by the end of 2018.

Two other possible taprooms

Motor City Brewing Works announced in August 2016 plans to expand from its Midtown location to a historic building on 19350 Livernois Ave., Crain's Detroit Business reported at the time. The expansion had been slated for August 2017, but ownership didn't immediately respond to Free Press attempts to for more details.

Bent Rim Brew House is expected to open on the east side, in a building that was previously a church on 1812 Field Street. In a July update, the brewery posted it was having issues with the city approving its drawings.

Below is a Google map with Detroit's eight brewery taprooms in blue, and anticipated taprooms in dark red (We included Granite City Food and Brewery because, while the wort is made out-of-state, the fermentation occurs on-site):

Spirits of Detroit columnist Robert Allen covers craft alcohol for the Free Press. Contact him: rallen@freepress.com or on Untappd, raDetroit; Twitter @rallenMI, and Facebook robertallen.news.