Wet Hop Tap Takeover

Autumn brings with it some of the most talked about beer styles on the market. Pumpkin ales are notorious for having a love/hate relationship with consumer’s palates, but have yet to be fully exploited by our local breweries. Oktoberfest Märzen’s seem to be loved by most, and some amazing local …

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Virtue Cider’s Percheron

Through work I received an invitation to the release party for Virtue Cider’s Percheron. In case you are unfamiliar, Virtue Cider is located in Michigan and was started by Greg Hall, former brewmaster of Goose Island. Farmhouse, located at 228 West Chicago Avenue, hosted the event in their upstairs space …

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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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