I read a lot of food/beverage media around town, and for all the conversation about the new brewpubs and gastropubs (still hate that word) around the city, it struck me that there are a fair number of places in the suburbs doing their own brewing as well, without nearly as much fawning over it, likely due to their non-proximity to guys like me that were doing all the writing.
A little pleading, a few emails and a decent amount of luck later, the esteemed Powers That Be at Chicago Magazine allowed me to throw together a short list of microbreweries and brewpubs in the suburbs that you may or may not have heard about. For this audience, I’m assuming you all fall closer to “may have.” Just a hunch.
If you haven’t seen the piece, I chose to check out Limestone in Plainfield, Lunar Brewing in Villa Park, America’s Brewing in Aurora, Stockholm’s in Geneva and Flossmoor Station, in…well, Flossmoor.
And, if you haven’t seen the piece, you can check it out here.
Image courtesy of Chicago Magazine.
