A recent story from the Santa-Rosa Press Democrat recounts the rise of Lagunitas – but we’re focused on one of their charitable efforts in Chicago.
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Holy Crap, That’s HUGE (Literally): Lagunitas Expanding Their Already-Huge Chicago Brewery Plans
You know that brewery that Lagunitas is building here in Chicago? The one that’s going to dwarf all the other Chicago craft breweries combined? Guess what. They’re making it bigger. We awoke this morning to this post from the everpresent Adam Nason at Beerpulse, who informs us of the announcement (via Twitter, of course) from [...]
~ read more ~Trouble Could Be Brewing For Lagunitas’ Proposed Taproom In Chicago – UPDATED X3
***UPDATES*** 2/26 – It appears to be all but official; Lagunitas’ Chicago taproom will not open in April. Between now and the hopeful summer opening of the taproom, Lagunitas owner Tony Magee will have sprinklers installed throughout the cavernous 300,000 square-foot warehouse. I believe the TapRoom’ll b later, maybe June, but the Brewery’ll begin bttling/kgging [...]
~ read more ~Budweiser, Goose…and Lagunitas? Not On Tony McGee’s Watch
Over the past few months we’ve been documenting the various employees of Goose Island – brewery proper as well as brewpub – leaving the mother ship one by one. For those who remain, if you’re interested in working for Lagunitas, today wouldn’t be the worst day to shoot your resume over to Lagunitas head honcho [...]
~ read more ~Lagunitas’ Chicago Tap Room On Track For April Opening; Brewery In The Fall – UPDATED
***UPDATE*** It looks the proposed Chicago taproom is no longer on track for a spring opening. More HERE. ***END UPDATE*** Lagunitas Founder Tony Magee took to twitter on Monday to provide an update on how things are coming along with a planned brewery and tap room in Chicago. The tap room, at 18th and Rockwell [...]
~ read more ~GDB’s 2012 Chicago Craft Beer Awards
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) [...]
~ read more ~The Year in Beer – Chicago and Beyond, 2012
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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