On January 12th as happens each year around this time, the delicious offering from Bells called Hopslam was released upon the masses in the Chicagoland area. Sheffields on the corner of Sheffield and School in Chicago as they have done in the past threw a party to celebrate this release. …
One thing we’ve learned w/ certainty these past couple weeks is that the state of Michigan owns craft beer for the month of January. The Double Trouble release from Founders handled business last week as the opening act for the insanely delicious, highly anticipated, wildly popular cult favourite..Hopslam from Bells …
Tonight a couple of us Chicago Beer Geeks headed over to the new Haymarket Brewery for a special Founders event they were throwing. 12 Founders beers on tap including some rarities such as: Canadian Breakfast Stout, Nemesis, Backwoods Bastard, and Nawego County Cherry. There were other Founders on tap as …
This top 5 list is my personal list of what I considered my top 5 beers of 2010. Please comment and tell us what your top 5 beers were this past year. The beers in my list I consider my top that I had this year all based on my …
A friend recently reminded me that Oskar Blues is distributed to Wisconsin, so I recently picked up some Ten Fidy RIS and some Gubna IIPA. So effing good. I strongly recommend anyone who hasn’t tried these to go purchase them immediately.
After receiving harsh feedback from a beer community up in arms, Stone Brewery has released a response to their recent “Odd Beers for Odd Years” communication. They will continue to offer their standard IRS and Old Guardian Barley Wine… as well as the Belgo take on them previously disclosed. Having just …
If you have ever tried to acquire any of the bottles in this photo from your local fine beverage depot..you know how special this evening was. This was the rarest of events, only 20 tix available to the public. It was part seminar, part dinner party and a celebration of …
This recipe is the first non-kit recipe I did since I started all grain brewing and myself as well as others thought it turned out fairly good. The concept was to have a grain bill in the Oktoberfest style but then hop it up with not necessarily hops that are in the style. …
