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Review: Rolling Meadows Lincoln’s Logger
Rolling Meadows Lincoln’s Logger is an enigma, of sorts. The ominous appearance and coffee-dominant aromas lead you to believe one thing, while the citrus-y finish and airy body send you down a different path. But in a roundabout way it works.
~ read more ~Review: Rolling Meadows Barrel Aged Abe’s Ale
The barrel aging of this imperial brown ale took everything we love about Rolling Meadows Good Food Award winning Abe’s Ale and made it better.
~ read more ~5 Rabbit’s Huitzi: A “Midwinter” Beer for the First Day of “Spring”
A term like ‘Midwinter’ when it’s used to describe a beer becomes almost meaningless when winter in Chicago seems to kick in somewhere around February and sticks around through damn near into April. Half-expecting this, I held onto a bottle of 5 Rabbit’s Huitzi to pour earlier this week. Now that today is the first [...]
~ read more ~Holy Crap, That’s HUGE (Literally): Lagunitas Expanding Their Already-Huge Chicago Brewery Plans
You know that brewery that Lagunitas is building here in Chicago? The one that’s going to dwarf all the other Chicago craft breweries combined? Guess what. They’re making it bigger. We awoke this morning to this post from the everpresent Adam Nason at Beerpulse, who informs us of the announcement (via Twitter, of course) from [...]
~ read more ~Southern Illinois Soda Maker “Excels” At More Than Just Pop
We’re not going to lie: we were a little leery when we first saw that family owned, southern Illinois soda maker Excel Bottling Company was venturing into the world of beer and starting a brewery. At the time, we wondered: Just because you own a bottling line and it’s easy to start making beer, does [...]
~ read more ~Metropolitan Brewing: Maybe A Tasting Room Is In the Distant Future?
Metropolitan Brewing has long been one of our go-to breweries for incredibly solid, well-crafted lagers, and in the constant rush of stories about This Week’s New Craft Brewery some of the news about their expansion seems to have gone unnoticed. It was just under a month ago that the Red Eye published this story about [...]
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