HopCat is best known for having a wide array of beers on tap, with several of their locations offering over 100 different options.

[3][4] Founded in 2008 in Grand Rapids by Mark Sellers, the original HopCat in Grand Rapids is a brewpub with its own small brewery, which typically supplies 4-6 house-made beers alongside craft beers from around the country.

[5] In 2015, BarFly Ventures secured $25 million in capital financing to expand HopCat to several additional locations.

[6][7] On June 6, 2020, BarFly Ventures filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Grand Rapids, MI.

"[12] On December 15, 2018, Barfly Ventures CEO Mark Gray announced that Hopcat would be renaming its famous “Crack Fries” in order to avoid making light of the drug the name refers to as well as addiction to said drug.