When it merits, we will bring you the relevant, generally-Chicago-centric information about what you’ll be imbibing around town. Here’s what’s running through our Mash Tun of Information:
New Chicago Brewing Not New Chicago Brewing Any More
Alas, New Chicago Brewing, we hardly knew ye. And welcome, New Chicago Beer Company. The Rebranding Police must have made a stop at The Plant because the former New Chicago Brewing changed their name and made it Facebook-official. Per their new page:
New Chicago Brewing Co. is now New Chicago Beer Co.
Since Samuel and I started working on this brewery over two years ago, we have been working on finding a perfect name. We finally feel as if we have found it. New Chicago Beer Co. is a name that includes all the elements we feel necessary in a name. “Chicago” is there to honor the greatest city on earth. “New” means that we respect the history, but like all those Chicagoans before us, we always look to improve upon it. The change from “Brewing Co.” to “Beer Co.” indicates our desire to focus directly on creating craft beers.
Now that we are ready to fully launch our company, “New Chicago Beer Co.” will be its final name and we are getting ready to give Chicago some new beers in 2012.
Even their old URL, ChicagoAles.com, redirects to the new site, newchicagobeer.com. You can follow ’em here as well: facebook.com/newchicagobeerco
City Provisions: More Collaborations Coming Soon
You may recall we posted glowingly about their first “homebrew” (our term) beer collaboration a couple weeks ago. The collaboration between City Provisions and Dark Horse Brewery is a Sarsaparilla Stout with Vanilla Bean and sounds amazing. It’ll be out on November 29th, so mark your calendars appropriately.
Available sooner is the Metro Brewing collaboration called the Carburetor Rye Bock #58, a Rye Doppelbock aged in a Templeton barrel, making it a barrel-aged lager and not something you’ll ever likely stumble into for a while. That beer is primed for release this Friday, the 21st.
Even sooner still? Tonight’s the night to get your hands on the Finch Beer collaboration, the Slackjawed Dunkel. Per their PR email, it’s “brewed with a little smoked malt and 30 pounds of raw honey from Chef Cleetus’s own bee hive.” They all sound pretty damn good to us.
Another Couple Pumpkins Coming To Chicago
Here’s a few new brews to add to our Pumpkin Beer roundup (if we can find it). Goose Island Clybourn is planning to release their brewpub-only pumpkin beer as mentioned on their twitter feed. Look for it late next week.
The second pumpkin coming to Chicago is likely to be a little harder to find. Stone Brewing has partnered with Elysian and the Bruery to create a self-described “mellow” pumpkin beer. According to a release on Beer Advocate, it’s “an amber ale brewed with pumpkins grown on Stone Farms, yams, rye, toasted fenugreek, birch bark, and lemon verbena.”
Yeah. Birch bark.
Why do we mention it here, you ask? Because the whole city is crazy for pumpkin beers right now, and they’re distributing it to Illinois in limited release, so get ready to plan your beer shopping appropriately. Binnys is getting ready for you.
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