Celebrating Lake Sturgeon with Beer!

Clean water is important for many things. What is the number one ingredient in beer?! Water. But not just any water — it has to be clean, healthy water. Clean water is vital not only for Lake Sturgeon, but also for the communities, businesses, and traditions that depend on it.

To celebrate the 2025 sturgeon release, local brewers across the Saginaw Bay Watershed have stepped up with commemorative beers, each specially named in honor of these ancient fish and the rivers they live in.

Barrister Brewing

• What: Riparian Rights

  • Beer Style: Session New England IPA

  • Flavor: Piney, juicy and hazy

  • Beer is brewed with Michigan-native Mackinac hops for a nice up-north pine and citrus punch

  • Each beer purchase helps support the Friends of the Shiawassee River, a Saginaw Bay Sturgeon Restoration partner.

• Where: 902 W Main Street, Owosso, MI 48867

  
  

Oracle Brewing

• What: Living Dinosaur

  • Beer Style: Lemon Yuzu Gose

• Where: 122 N. Michigan Avenue, Saginaw, MI 48602

Three Bridges Distillery and Taproom

• What: Nerdy Sour

  • Beer Style: Sour - made with many pounds of nerds

• Where: 240 E Main Street, Suite A, Midland MI 48640

Tenacity Brewing

• What: Sturgeon Surgeon

  • Beer Style: Midwest IPA

  • Made with local centennial hops

• Where: 119 N. Grand Traverse St, Flint, MI