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Sparging the News: Our Take on the Goose Island Buyout By Anheuser-Busch InBev

Is this the new logo for 312? (+322 is the international code for Belgium, home of AB parent InBev.) Image used with permission from Jeff Cagle.

Could this be 312's new logo? (+322 is the international calling code for Belgium, home of AB parent InBev.) Image used with permission from Jeff Cagle.*

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 [...]

Review: Goose Island Sai-Shan-Tea

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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 [...]

Review: Goose Island La Vie D'une Oie

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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% [...]