Herb Light Presents: The Beer Pong Classic at Sluggers
Exploring the wonderfully ridiculous world of alternate history through retro cans, jingles, and vintage beer commercials with Herb Light. Herb Light, The Low-High Hills, Chicago, IL This is the most...
View ArticlePhase Three Brewing Announces Chicago Location
Avondale, Chicago – P3’s Third Location By our measure, the five best breweries in the suburbs are Three Floyds, Mikerphone, Roaring Table, Goldfinger and Phase Three. Only one of those crews hosts an...
View ArticleSeven Barrels, Six Beers: Goose Island’s 2026 Bourbon County Lineup...
Tiramisu Stout – BCS Finished In Rum Barrels w Vanilla, Espresso + Cocoa Nibs wtf Goose Island’s newest Bourbon County collection reminds us that the most important ingredient was never the coffee,...
View ArticleDaisy Crown Blooms at Half Acre’s Balmoral Beer Garden
6.7% IPA Collab with Allagash The Beer Garden at Balmoral is top tier. Following the Sierra Nevada-focused edition, Daisies In Bloom returned with Allagash Brewing Company serving as featured guest...
View ArticleThe Plant That Grew a Brewery
How Whiner Beer and its neighbors turned a forgotten building into a living ecosystem of flavor. Miaou- Wild Saison + Four Letter Word Coffee + cascara. Uppers & Downers. Pilsen Circa 2019 The...
View ArticleBegyle + Friends – The Perfect Winter Bash
The Gravitational Pull of Begyle Brewing After countless Mayfestiversary and Oktoberfestivsary parties over the years, attending this event for the second time delivered a quiet revelation: the draw...
View ArticleThe Greatest American Stout of All Time: Inside the 2025 Bourbon County Stout...
The Constant That’s Never the Same. Every Bourbon County release begins with the same question: What did time do this year? Parker’s Heritage 10-Year Rye A hushed reverence settled over the Goose...
View ArticleWhere Stone Teaches the Water to Sing
At Thornton Distilling Co., the oldest standing brewery in Illinois becomes a destination for modern spirits and slow craftsmanship. Deep South Burbs. Thornton, IL Celebrating 12yrs in 2026 The air...
View ArticleA Night At Guinness Chicago: How The World’s Most Famous Pint Found Its...
Kinzie Street Pale Ale on nitro at The World’s Fanciest Pub Dinner – Guinness Chicago Fulton Market What Guinness has created on West Kinzie isn’t just another taproom — it’s a destination brewery in...
View ArticleFire. Flour & Beer: A Night of Pizza Making at Billy Bricks
Billy Bricks Neapolitan and New Haven Style Pizza. Lombard, IL On a cool Wednesday evening in Lombard, Illinois, the heart of downtown glowed a little warmer than usual. Inside Billy Bricks Lombard,...
View ArticleFour Beers, Infinite Depth: Inside Revolution’s Deep Woods Series
Ugandan Vanilla Meets Chicago Stout – Vanilla Deth Beer God Marty Scott and Top 5 Dead or Alive Brewmaster Jim Cibak return with the October Revolution Deep Woods Lineup. At the heart of the series...
View ArticleGoose Island Bourbon County Stout 2025: Cherries Jubilee, Baklava & Parker’s...
2025 Parker’s Heritage Reserve Stout •BCS Cherries Jubilee Stout •BCS Chocolate Praline Stout •BCS Proprietor’s Stout (Baklava) •BCS Double Barrel Heaven Hill Bottled-in-Bond Stout •BCS Parker’s...
View ArticleRiver Bird Takes Flight: Goose Island’s IPA Salute to The Waterway That Built...
Chicago’s Oldest Brewery Pays Homage To The Forgotten Force That Shaped the City.. Goose Island River Bird IPA In a city where civic pride runs deeper than visitors will ever understand , Goose Island...
View ArticleMaplewood Brewery & Distillery Patio Expansion + Kitchen Grand Opening
2717 N. Maplewood Ave. Logan Square. Chicago As if we needed more reasons to love Chicago’s premier brewer/ distillery. Maplewood has decided to expand patio seating and renovate kitchen operations...
View ArticleCider Summit Chicago 2025
125 Ciders, Cocktails + Spirits at Cider Summit 2025 It’s one of the only consistent winter festivals in the entire city, also the only time all year we’d consider going to Navy Pier. The 11th Annual...
View ArticleFrom Steakhouse to Culture Hub:$5M Black Woman-Owned Brewery and Creole...
Homewood Brewing Company The story here in some circles was that the family of JuiceWRLD, one of most popular artists in Spotify history was opening a brewery. To be fair I still don’t quite...
View ArticlePho No. 1 Brewing
7958 W. Belmont Ave. Dunning, Chicago Really not sure what the hell os going on here. But there’s a pho restaurant on the far Northwest Side of the city that has no less than eight house beers on...
View ArticleGoose Island Announces The Return of Bourbon County Rare Day
Goose adds a 6th variant to this year’s BCS lineup. We started to wonder what the hell is up with Goose. There was no 312 Block Party this year. Reports are they didn’t even attend Great Taste of the...
View ArticlePilot Project Fest Returns Bigger and Better In Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin The super jam of 25 breweries, music acts and taco stand popup moved from the Chicago location to their stunning Milwaukee production facility. Located in historic brewing...
View ArticleThe Goose Island Bourbon County Stout 2024 Lineup
The return of Vanilla Rye and a Bardstown Cask Finish Stout lead a promising lineup of five offerings for Black Friday 2024. In the pantheon of BCS variants Vanilla Rye is likely in every one’s top...
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