Moritat’s free Monday release party for the High Plus Tight EP doubles as a DryHop tap takeover featuring a lovely wheat IPA of the same name.
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Temperance Beer Company goes big with its first bottles
Saturday at its tap room, Temperance releases two barrel-aged versions of Might Meets Right imperial stout.
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Take a ‘Walk ov Shame’ to the Local Option for the Catalina Wine Mixer
This fruity Belgian-style saison is one of 31 beautiful beers the Local Option will be pouring all night.
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Mannequin Men officially call it quits after more than a decade together
The local garage staple disbands after 11 years together.
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Beer and Metal’s best of 2014, chosen by you
It was a good year for Beer and Metal, and an even better year for beer. And for metal.
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Yes, Marz Community Brewing aged a mushroom stout in soy-sauce barrels, and I drank it
If you’ve got any room in your heart at all for bizarro stunt beers, you owe it to yourself to try Umami Stout.
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Penrose Brewing achieves infinitely self-similar deliciousness with Fractal
Geneva’s Penrose Brewing renews its push onto retail shelves with four-packs of the Belgian-style IPA Fractal (and the Belgian-style white IPA Desirous).
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Goose Island’s 2014 Bourbon County beers, reviewed by six increasingly drunk people
Chicago’s most hyped beers of the year arrive on Black Friday, and the Reader is ready.
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Festival of Wood and Barrel Aged Beer gold medalists include Pipeworks, Revolution, and Off Color
FOBAB defeated the Reader‘s Beer and Metal correspondent this year, but several deserving Chicago breweries tasted sweet victory.
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CHAOS Brew Club celebrates Learn to Homebrew Day
The local nonprofit collective opens up its brew house for free introductory brewing demonstrations.
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A GABF silver medalist for your fridge: Half Acre’s Heyoka IPA
Half Acre wins its first GABF medal in the most competitive category in the festival’s history.
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Marz Community Brewing launches with a small space, a big crew, a great party, and a memorable lineup
This new Bridgeport operation has a crowd of brewers on deck, and takes advantage of their varied talents to produce a broad range of solid beers.
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‘Modern’ Polish food at Mount Prospect’s Qulinarnia
Mount Prospect’s Qulinaria tries to spiff up meat and potatoes.
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The debut of Uncommon Ground’s Greenstar, the first organic brewery in Illinois
A Hofbräuhaus veteran launches Greenstar Brewing with two organic pale ales that showcase rich malts.
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What lies at the bottom of the Playpen, Chicago’s floating daytime clubland
What lies at the bottom of the Playpen, Chicago’s floating daytime clubland