Adam Vavrick, beer boss at the Binny’s on Marcey Street, has put together a beer event that borders on ridiculous. He’s got a ton of Goose Island treasurers he’ll be pulling out of the store’s cellar starting at 9am tomorrow. Showing up gets you a piece of paper with a number on it. I’ll be [...]
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Chicago area breweries placed in eight of the ten categories, took home five gold’s and a Best in Show at this past weekend’s Festival Of Barrel Aged Beer. Goose Island took home the most hardware with 4 medals and a Best in Show. Goose Island’s brewpubs also medaled as did Haymarket, Atlas Brewing, Solemn Oath, [...]
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KARL: The news of Goose Island being bought out by Anheuser-Busch seems to have taken a similar emotional path throughout many in the brewer-verse this morning. Just before 9am, John Hall announced that Goose Island was to be sold to A-B for 38.8 million dollars. At that precise moment, a wave of moderate shock resounded [...]
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Goose Island Sai-Shan-Tea Saison, 7.5% ABV Sayeth the Guys: Ryan: This intriguing Saison is a collaborative effort between Goose Island’s Clybourn brewpub, Chuck Sudo from Chicagoist and Rodrick Markus of Rare Tea Cellar. The beer was brewed using Rare Tea Cellar’s Emperor’s Meritage Lemon tea. Chuck wrote extensively about the brew process HERE and HERE, [...]
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Goose Island says: As a part of our chef collaboration series we teamed up with Vie Restaurant to create La Vie D’une Oie (The Life of a Goose). A complex wheat wine with notes of dried fig, prunes, cocoa and cherry. Goose Island La Vie D’une Oi (The Life of a Goose) Wheat Wine, 9% [...]
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