Private and team-building events: More than just craft beer
Select from our list of partners to create a fun-filled trip
Are you looking for a fresh way to reward your employees?
Let us customize your next team-building event with a specialty trip that is more than just craft beer. We’ll work with your team to create a memorable, engaging event to improve the office culture. Let us handle the logistics; you reap the benefits.
Remember, these outings can be more than just craft beer.
We’ll work with our network of partners — everything from art studios to recreational activities — to craft a meaningful day or evening.
Would you like to add a winery or distillery to the event? Great. We can make that happen, while maintaining a safe, responsible atmosphere.
These trips can accommodate any number of people and span anywhere from three-to-six hours. Weekdays and weekends are available.
To setup an exploratory conversation or for a quote, please contact John Liberty at moc.sruotreebimtsew@nhoj or call 269-350-4598.
Partner Network
Location: Portage/Kalamazoo
“We have a wide range of activities that are certain to make your next birthday party, corporate party or holiday party a hit. Whether your group is drawn to the putting greens of our mini golf course, our laser tag arena, our thrilling room escape games, or bowling… your search for fun things to do in Kalamazoo is over!”
— Private bowling in Taproom’s VIP suite with TVs, 24 beers on tap, couches and more
Location: Allegan
Experience the largest indoor ropes course in Michigan! Allegan Event offers plenty of room for birthdays, celebrations and large groups, as well as endless adventurous activities for guests of all ages to explore. Get active and make lasting memories while engaging your group with physical challenges that encourage teamwork, critical thinking and team bonding.
— Sky Trail® + Sky Rail™ ropes course
— QUICKjump free-fall simulation exit
— Clip ‘n Climb climbing walls
— Vertical Drop Slide
— Food and alcohol are served here
Location: Kalamazoo
Avolio GlassWerks is the combined glass blowing effort of Judith Konesni and Michael Fortin. With more than 50 years of combined glass working expertise, Michael and Judith specialize in traditional hand blown glass and have also created impressive cast forms, dramatic fused and kiln formed works, and detailed lampworked creations. Individually Judith and Michael are able to invent colorful, unique items that are perfect for home and office; as gifts for friends, family or clients; corporate awards large and small. As a team their experience places them at the highest level; able to meet a client’s needs for lighting, commercial and private installations, public art (indoors and out), and architectural installations of all kinds.
— Visit the artist showroom in the Park Trades Center
— Smaller groups of 8 or less can visit the artist’s studio for a glass-blowing demonstration
Location: Plainwell
Potter Eric Strader, grandson of Petoskey, Michigan potter Stanley Kellogg, continues the family tradition of making functional pottery. His studies began with a degree in clarinet performance from Western Michigan University. Memories of his grandfather’s studio led him to enroll in a ceramics course at the Kalamazoo Institute of Art where he discovered his love for clay. In order to further his training, Eric apprenticed with Goshen, Indiana potter, Dick Lehman. Eric’s pottery has been featured in many invitational and juried exhibitions, as well as art fairs throughout the Midwest. Eric produces hand thrown, high fired pottery with lead free glazes. It is made of durable stoneware clay and may be used in the conventional oven, microwave oven, and dishwasher.
— Visit the artist’s studio in rural Plainwell for a short demonstration
— There is an option to add a commemorative item for each member of the group
— Enjoy craft beer on-site as part of the visit
— Perfect for groups of 10-12 people
— Beer pints with company logo available (white mugs only; requires 6 week advance
Location: Downtown Kalamazoo
Climb Kalamazoo is Southwest Michigan’s premier indoor climbing gym with over 10,500 square feet of climbing surface, including a 2500 square foot lead cave. Our walls are up to 30 ft. tall with lead routes up to 65 feet long. Enjoy over 30 top rope stations, 7 Auto Belays, a Lead Cave, 2 top-out bouldering areas, and we routeset every week! There is always something to play on!
— Learn the basics of climbing and try your hand at a new recreational activity (2-hour minimum visit time)
Location: Downtown Kalamazoo
Kalamazoo Candle Company proudly handcrafts 100% natural soy candles right here in Kalamazoo. With a focus on quality and sustainability, the candles feature a long, clean burn with beautiful fragrances in repurposable containers. Come on into retail store, Marketplace, and make your very own candle. Mix and match the wide variety of fragrances to create a candle that is truly unique.
— Groups can make their own candle
Location: Allegan
Grab a group of your adrenaline-loving pals and prepare to check this experience off your bucket list. Defy your fears by climbing the staircase to the 45 foot high platform, then step off into the open air as the zip line carries you 600 feet across the Kalamazoo River. Once you get to the other side, relax and prepare for your return flight back!
— Open Memorial Day through Labor Day
— It is weather-permitting
Location: Downtown Kalamazoo
Green Door Distilling Co, is an award-winning grain to glass distillery located in Kalamazoo’s River’s Edge District. We’re proud to be Kalamazoo’s first distillery and represent the rich distilling history that Kalamazoo possessed in the 1800’s. Green Door Distilling Co. was established in 2014. Opening its doors in September of 2016, Green Door became the first distillery to open in Kalamazoo since 1858. Green Door Distilling Co. wants you to join the adventure. The adventure is crafting spirits, and our method is a “grain to glass” approach focusing on making small batch spirits by hand and using the best ingredients. If you haven’t found your adventure yet, you might check in one of our bottles. At least, it’s a good place to start looking.
— Private tour with craft cocktails
Location: Battle Creek
This is an Axe Throwing Club in Battle Creek Michigan. We host league nights AND we will host your group of party for axe throwing events.
— Minimum group size of 15 people
— Drinks can be added
— Tournament play available
— Axe throwing on-site is available at additional cost
Location: Portage/Kalamazoo
Escape rooms are a dramatic new attraction at Airway Fun Center that allow you to experience being locked up, live, with only harrowing handful of minutes to escape. Taking the country by storm, these ingenious escape games are designed to challenge players to solve a series of puzzles in order to escape within a specified time limit. Great as a corporate team building exercise, room escape games build trust, reward cooperation and – most of all – offer families, coworkers and friends a number of new, exciting things to do in Kalamazoo. Offering Seven unique challenges, Airway Fun Center is the area’s only destination for room escape games. From the hidden mysteries in Mansion Murder to the historical events presented in the Arizona Shootout, we’re confident that our escape rooms will provide our guests with an extraordinary, one-of-a-kind experience!
— Test your problem-solving and communication skills in a series of themed rooms
— Alcohol can be added as part of the visit
Location: Mattawan
Originally only 80 acres, Schultz Fruitridge Farms was started in 1951 by Victor and Dorothy Schultz. Currently run by second and third generation Schultz family members, we are proud to have expanded our fruit and vegetable farm to over 300 acres, including the addition of a bison herd located in nearby Schoolcraft, MI, and a farm-to-table restaurant and microbrewery with Texas Corners Brewing Company.
— Enjoy a scenic trip to the countryside to this family fruit farm for seasonal fruit picking, doughnuts and more
— Tour the facility to see where the family produces its popular hard cider and beer
— Drop in the market for your farm-fresh goodies
— Seasonal and weather permitting option
Location: Downtown Kalamazoo
At Tempo Vino we are very proud of our wine and winemaking processes. Our wines are hand crafted in small batches from grapes grown around the world. There is no other winery in the area where you can actually taste and make wine from grapes grown in France, Italy, Germany, Australia, and California. We select the best crops from top vineyards each harvest, and import the juice to our winery for winemaking.
— Private wine tasting with meet-and-greet
— Custom winemaking with specialized labels
Location: Downtown Kalamazoo
Artist Jon Reeves has called Kalamazoo home since 1989, when the Kalamazoo Civic theater hired him to be its youth theater technical director. Since that time, Reeves have designed and built hundreds of shows for many of the areas’ theaters. When not building a show, he can be found making theatrical weapons and teaching actors how to fight with them. Having received a B.A. in technical design and production from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Reeves also work as a sculpture artist in my studio. My main medium is steel, but he also work with brass, copper, fabric, and lots of reclaimed throw-aways. The weapons and sculpture studio is named Combat Ready Art. I make a range of pieces, from large-scale sculptures to knives and barbecue tools.
— We can arrange for a one-hour visit to the artist studio to see how Jon’s various items are created
— Stay for an extended visit and craft a metal item to take home
