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We’re Calling It: Lincoln Avenue is Chicago’s Best Drinking Street

With the recent opening of the Barrelhouse Flat at Lincoln & Wrightwood, we got to thinking – is there a better street in Chicago for quality drinking than Lincoln Avenue?

While it’s probably safe to say that the best street for quantity drinking is Clark Street between Belmont and Irving, notably all those magnificent macro-pourers [...]

A List Of Beer At The End Of The Year: Here’s What We Liked In 2011

All the cool kids are doing year-end lists, so we’re jumping on board this particular train as well. You may recall we recapped our Top 5 Beers after a year of being in existence, but we have a few notable brews floating around in our brains that are worth mentioning. True, we spent most of [...]

Review: Half Acre’s “Horizon” @ NEXT

All hail the Horizon Ale.

I really want the new Next logo to have "Childhood" written in Comic Sans.

Warning: This may be one of the few reviews of NEXT to not focus primarily on the food, nor discuss much about the coming menus (we asked, it’s still “childhood”). This review is about the beer. Once, I wrote a [...]

Sparging The News: Chicago Tribune writes, “Craft beers surging in popularity”

In their Sunday (4/3/11) publication, the Chicago Tribune wrote about the growing popularity of craft beer, noting -

Craft beer sales came in at just under 10 million barrels in 2010, an 11 percent annual increase, while total U.S. beer sales were down 1 percent, to 203.5 million barrels, according to the Brewers Association. Some [...]

Sparging The News: Half Acre, Flossmoor Station, Founders (KBS!) & Brewery Terra Firma

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When it merits, GuysDrinkingBeer 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:

A new beer and a familiar one are due to be released on tap at Half Acre this Friday (2/18).  Callow Knife, which we told you about last [...]

Sparging The News: Flossmoor Station, Two Brothers & Half Acre

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“When it merits, GuysDrinkingBeer 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:”

A barrel aged version Flossmoor Station’s wildly popular “rye wine” called Hi-Fi Rye will be released in the coming months.

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