Our web store is now live for the May Release!
The store will be open until Wednesday, May 6th at noon for ALL delivery orders (we need time to route them before delivery). The store will be open through Saturday, May 9th for pickup orders.
Thursday, May 7th: Non-GR West MI deliveries - $5 delivery charge - no minimum
Friday, May 8th: GR deliveries - $5 delivery charge - no minimum
Saturday, May 9th: Curbside pick up @ Speciation - 10am to 4pm
Sunday, May 10th: Metro Detroit & Ann Arbor deliveries - $8 delivery charge - $50 minimum order
*If you select delivery, please let us know the best place to leave your order in the notes field at checkout. Also please provide a phone number for us to coordinate a drop off via text. If you are unsure if you are in the delivery range, or if you have other questions, please email Mitch.
This is the only way to get products directly from us right now. If you can’t make it to the curbside pickup or pay for delivery, then please visit the closest shop on our list!
MAY RELEASES:
Elderberry Incipient - Foeder Aged Solera Sour w/ Elderberries. The closest thing we have to a flagship is Incipient - a golden sour wheat ale with a rotating fruit each month. This month’s version contains Elderberries. The color is inky purple/black, and the taste matches the intense color! This is your grandma’s homemade jam. $8/16oz can. No untappd rating yet (zero reviews).
Whistleblower - Gin BA Sour Ale w/ Foraged Sumac. Speciation would not exist without the guidance of one person: James Howat from Black Project Spontaneous & Wild Ales. Mitch worked under James for two years, learning about brewing wild beer and how to run a business. Black Project’s Lead Brewer Alex Buck came up with the idea for this particular beer, so we have to give him credit here too ;) - $10/375ml capped bottle. 4.2 on Untappd
Øl Dusty Trail - Foeder Aged Sour w/ Raspberry & Sage. This beer is a long story of weirdness involving a traveling circus consisting of a one person art project, a broken down van, and a trip in the high plains desert. $12/375ml corked bottle. No untappd rating yet (zero reviews).
MULTIPLANETARY - Kveik Fermented Hard Seltzer w/ Apricots & Frederiksdal Stevnsbær Cherry Juice. I seriously don’t even know what to say about this. Are we crazy for doing such a blasphemous thing? Yeah, probably. Does it taste amazing? Yes, absolutely. $12/4 pack of 16oz cans. No untappd rating yet (zero reviews).
NO REGRETS WHEN YOU’RE DRINKING PIQUETTES - Mixed 4 pack of Piquette. Piquette is a fun beverage recently brought back from the history books. It’s essentially a wine seltzer made by adding water to the “spent” grapes that remain after making spontaneously fermented wine. The flavor is somewhere between berliner weisse, seltzer, and wine. This 4 pack includes one can each of: Orange, Rosé, Red, & Purple. Usher in warmer weather with this refreshing bubbly stuff. Artwork was done by 4 exciting rounds of exquisite corpse played by Production dude Todd Bujack, Illustrator Dave Mckie, and Graphic Designer Elizabeth VanStee. $14/4 pack of 16oz cans. No Untappd reviews because Untappd doesn’t believe in including grape based beverages in their platform for some stupid reason.
FROM THE CELLAR:
The Laurentian Series: Lake Huron - The Laurentian Series is our mobile coolship project where we brew and coolship near each of the 5 Great Lakes to capture the "microbial terroir" of the lake region.
Laurentian: Huron brewed at Austin Brothers in Alpena, MI on April 23, 2018. Only 420 bottles produced. $32/750ml bottle - 4.26 on Untappd.
Selective Pressure - Foeder Aged Sour w/ Blueberry, Pomegranate, Vanilla - Extremely rare small batch that has never been released to the public before - $12/16oz can - 4.27 on Untappd.
2017 Sympatric - An orange wine inspired sour golden ale aged in wine barrels with Seyval Blanc grapes from Berrien Domaine Vineyard. 55% Sour Golden beer, 45% Seyval Blanc grapes. - $24/750ml bottle - 4.3 on Untappd.
2017 Gene Flow - A contemporary Gose, brewed with Cranberry, Hibiscus, Orange Zest & Salt. Brewed with homebrewer Ric Brown for the 2017 Beer City Pro Am. $15/750ml bottle- 4.25 on Untappd.
2018 Damaged Hypothalamus - Imperial Sour Beer Aged in Rum Barrels With Pineapple, Lime, and Apricot. $24/750ml bottle - 4.28 on Untappd.
2019 Recombination - Wine Barrel Aged Sour w/ Aronia, Orange & Pomegranate. $8/375ml bottle - 4.02 on Untappd (Seriously, this one is severely underrated)
2020 Antigenic - A golden sour aged in an Islay Scotch barrel. Not super peaty, but it’s present in the form of leather, smoke & earth. $12/375ml - 4.54 on Untappd (this is the highest rated beer we’ve ever made - don’t sleep on it!)
2020 Transpiration - Foeder Aged sour ale with Passion Fruit and Guava. $10/375ml bottle - 4.26 on Untappd.
