- Founded
- 2019
- Coordinates
- 45.7480° N, 85.5180° WGoogle Maps: Whiskey Point Brewing CompanyDownload KML
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- economytourism
- Within
- Saint James · Beaver Island
Summary
Whiskey Point Brewing Company is a small brewery and taproom in Saint James on Beaver Island, trading as of August 2026 at 38230 Michigan Avenue. It takes its name from Whiskey Point, the headland at the harbour entrance. It is the only brewery in the archipelago and post-dates the whole of this archive’s held newspaper run.
Current operation
The brewery describes itself as making “Island Made Craft Beverages” and posts summer hours; it was listed and open as of August 2026.12 Its own website states no founding year, opening date, or ownership, and none is asserted here.
History
Nothing in the held corpus records this business. The Beaver Beacon run held here ends in 2014, and the brewery does not appear in it; searches of the OCR corpus for the name return no hits. Reference sites outside the archive give a 2017 establishment and a July 2019 opening, and describe it as the first brewery in Michigan sited on an island, but the business’s own pages do not repeat those claims and no primary record has been consulted. They are therefore noted as unverified rather than stated.
Evidence and limits
This record rests entirely on the business’s own website and two commercial listings, all retrieved on 14 August 2026. That is enough to establish that the brewery exists, what it is called, where it stands and that it was trading; it is not enough for a founding date, an ownership history, or the claim of primacy among Michigan island breweries. This is the expected shape for a business younger than the archive’s newspaper coverage — the record of the present is thinner than the record of the past.
Open questions
- When was the company established and when did it first open to the public?
- Who founded and now owns it?
- Is the claim to be Michigan’s first island brewery correct, and against what other candidates?
- Does the taproom occupy a building with an earlier commercial use?
See also
Footnotes
The name, as attested
- 2019
Whiskey Point Brewing Companycurrent
The registered trading style; commercial listings also carry Whiskey Point Brewing and Whiskey Point Brewery.
Sources
- Describes the business as "Island Made Craft Beverages" and gives summer hours. The site makes no claim about founding year, opening date or ownership, so none is taken from it.
- Records the address 38230 Michigan Avenue, the category "Brewery," and a rating of 4.9 from 59 reviews. Evidence of present operation only.
- Lists the brewery at 4.0 of 5 from 2 reviews — a far smaller population than the Google listing, recorded so that neither figure is quoted as the rating.
Added 14 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Whiskey Point Brewing Company”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/organizations/whiskey-point-brewing-company/, accessed [date], citing Whiskey Point Brewing Company, business website, retrieved 14 August 2026. (and 2 further sources listed on the page).
Last revised 2026-08-14. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.
BibTeX for “Whiskey Point Brewing Company”RIS for “Whiskey Point Brewing Company”