Voodoo Brewing opens first Michigan taproom in Canton with local owners

Voodoo Brewing Company is set to open its first Michigan taproom in Canton on Saturday, June 27, and the pitch is as much about neighborhood gravity as it is about beer. Jason Turner and Carla Perez-Turner are leading the project at 5800 Sheldon Road, just north of Ford Road, and they are framing the place as a full-time hangout with craft beer, cocktails, elevated pub fare, smash burgers and a full bar restaurant setup.

The opening gives Voodoo a foothold in a new state while keeping local owners in the front of the story. The Canton site will pour roughly 30 beers on tap, and the room is designed to spill outward, with a patio and a garage-style door that opens the dining room to the outside. That setup matters in a suburb where operators are chasing repeat traffic, not just first-time curiosity.

For Canton, the timing makes sense. Canton charter township had an estimated population of 99,714 on July 1, 2025, up from 98,659 in the 2020 census, and Census Bureau data put the median value of owner-occupied homes at $372,400. That kind of dense, relatively affluent suburban market has become fertile ground for restaurant and entertainment concepts along the Ford Road corridor, where a taproom needs to compete on food, atmosphere and schedule as much as beer list depth.

That is where Voodoo’s model looks different from the average local taproom. The company, founded in 2005 in Meadville, Pennsylvania, opened its first taproom in 2012, added a production facility in early 2017 and opened another pub in State College in 2019. Its corporate locations page now stretches across states including Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin, so Canton is entering a franchised footprint that already knows how to scale. The chain’s next move in Michigan is not a speculative one-off. It is a branded brewpub entering an established beer state with local operators and a social calendar built in.

Jason Turner and Carla Perez-Turner have said they want trivia, watch parties, first-responder nights and live music, which should tell you exactly what kind of place this is meant to be. In a craft beer market where Michigan still supports hundreds of beverage facilities but national brewery closings continue to outpace openings, Voodoo’s Canton debut is less about planting a logo than about staking a claim on the kind of neighborhood bar that keeps people coming back.