Texas Corners is the name of the intersection directly to the south of our restaurant. We are also located on the corner of 8th St. and Texas Drive. Our brewpub is located in Texas Township, which was founded and settled around the time Texas gained independence from Mexico. It’s believed locals took inspiration from the fledgling country of Texas, as there is also an Alamo Township nearby. You can find out more on the history of the area on the Texas Charter Township website.

The original part of our restaurant and taproom was designed and built as a church in 1900. The front steeple portion was added at a later date, and the kitchen was added on right before we opened in 2015. The building was used as church until the late 1990’s before being repurposed as a gift shop. At the time we purchased it in 2013, the building had been abandoned, so we repurposed this historic building into a restaurant and brewpub. At over 100 years old, it is one of the oldest standing and most iconic buildings in Texas Township.

The building was purchased by our family in 2013 and our dream of a brewery and restaurant went into motion. Construction and licensing took about two years, and we officially opened to the public on March 23, 2015.

TCBC started as an extension of our third generation family fruit farm – Schultz Fruitridge Farms. On the farm, apples are our number one crop, and making hard cider was the original inspiration for starting the craft brewery and restaurant. 100% of the apples used in our hard cider are grown right on the family farm five miles away in Mattawan, MI.

Yes, we have about two dozen Cascade and Centennial hop plants. We grow enough to brew 2-4 seasonal and small batch “harvest” ales. These brews are crafted with hops picked from our plants and used in the brewing process within 24 hours of harvest. Our remaining craft brews are crafted largely with Michigan-grown hops.

We are a small, family-owned and operated business. We work in the restaurant daily and like all people we need some rest. Being closed Sundays helps us and our staff rest and recover to serve you at 100% the remainder of the week!

We have a small pilot brewing system in our restaurant’s basement, but the majority of our production currently happens at our family farm, five miles west in Mattawan. We brew and cellar most of our beer and cider in our production facility there, before transferring to our brew pub in Texas Corners.

There are three brothers in the Schultz family who founded TCBC – Bill, Dan, and Andrew. Andrew is involved on a daily basis at the restaurant. Bill and Dan are farmers at the family farm, and grow all of the apples in our hard cider. Read the full story of this beer on our blog.

Our grandfather, Victor, started the family farming business in 1951. Before that, he was a pilot for the US Army Airforce in WWII. He flew a campaign in North Africa and Southern Italy in a P-51 Mustang fighter. Without Victor’s vision of starting the family farm after the war, no one in the family would be doing what we are doing today. The P-51 Porter was our first beer we brewed, and it’s named in his honor. You can read the full background story on our blog.

With our family’s roots in farming that span over three generations, we believe that food that comes fresh from the farm can be picked at optimal ripeness, and therefore has optimal flavor. We also believe in supporting our local farming community. We use fresh fruits, vegetables, and proteins from our own farm, the local farmers’ market, other area farmers, our community college food hub, and our foodservice distributor. We consider anything grown, raised, or produced in Michigan as local.

Our brewery system is relatively small, so we sell 99% of our craft beers at our pub. The small remainder we sell to the occasional local bar or individual for parties. We do can and sell our hard cider at our pub, farm market, and about a dozen independent craft beer party stores in the greater Kalamazoo area.