The Off Color Brewing Open House

As far as I can tell this is the only brewery event that included rainbows and a hidden beer garden. As a follow up to their insane 2 day, 5 session beer launch at Black Rock in March, the Off Color Brewing team held an open house recently at their …

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Urbs In Horto

  It’s no secret that this is one of our all time favorite events. Beer Under Glass ranked number 2 last year on our 12 most awesome of 2012 list. BUG is the only time all year that we get to venture to the west side of Chicago for a …

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The John Hall Interview

  Just days after their massive Silver Anniversary Party (that featured 60 of their beers!) at the original Brewpub over on Clybourn, I was able to sit down for 20 minutes with a Chicago Legend. John started Goose Island in 1988 based on his world travels and his passion to …

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Solidarity:Darkside

All Sundays are not created equal. The crew over at Solidarity have a knack for creating random acts of awesome on Sunday afternoons. The latest chapter of their event series focused on all things black- Darkside: 22+ taps, featuring all dark ales.  The man behind the movement – Chris Jacobsen, …

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