In 2011, Paul at Chitown on Tap posted his “Craft Beer in Review” as a way to, in his words, “give props to the amazing people in our local craft beer community who have made drinking the good suds so damn rewarding this year.” Paul has moved on from the writing about beer (temporarily, we understand) [...]
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UPDATE BELOW Nearly three months ago we told you that Dogfish Head was leaving its Chicago area wholesaler, Louis Glunz Distributing, now we can tell you where they are going. Dogfish Head’s entire portfolio of “Off-Centered Ales” will be distributed in the Chicago area by MillerCoors’ cluster of nine wholesalers. Glunz, named Beer Distributor of [...]
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Now that 2012 is coming to a close, we thought we’d go back and poke through the archives and the year of news to break down exactly what happened in one of the most crazy, busy, insane, explosive, expansive, interesting years in Chicago brewing history. January 1, 2012: Happy new year, y’all! Hopefully something interesting [...]
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(Editors Note: The following post was written by our legal analyst, Thom Vogelhuber. Thom is a 2012 DePaul Law School graduate and currently works as an associate attorney at Pittacora & Crotty, a small law firm in Chicago which focuses on business and commercial transactions and litigation.) Newly released documents in the compensation dispute between distributor [...]
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Lawyers for Dogfish Head and Louis Glunz Distributing are due back in federal court in Chicago today for a status hearing in a tug-of-war over how much Dogfish Head’s beers are worth to Glunz Distributing now and what they would be worth in the future. Dogfish Head is switching distributors in the Chicago area – [...]
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A few months ago a tweet sent from a beer manager in Chicago hinted at Dogfish Head making a move away from craft-friendly Louis Glunz Distributing. We followed up on the 140-characters of information but couldn’t get any solid confirmation that a move was imminent. Something was clearly in the works, but no one would [...]
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