It’s been nearly a year since the Evans brothers, Samuel and Jesse, announced they (and their well-publicized New Chicago Beer Company) were leaving The Plant, and finally we have an answer as to what they’ve been up to for this long. Below, is the announcement re-branding their efforts as Ale Syndicate Brewers, contracting through Big [...]
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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 [...]
~ read more ~“You sure do have some gumption…walking in to that room, saying the things you said.” I wheeled around to see an unnamed distributor wearing a black pullover with a grey Bud logo over his heart grinning at me. He found me pacing the hallway outside of the Picasso Ballroom at the Omni Hotel on Michigan [...]
~ read more ~RYAN: As you read this I have most likely already begun my presentation; talking about breweries, farm-to-table brewpubs and why guys that have trucks with “Budweiser” on them should give a damn. Today, I am speaking before the Associated Beer Distributors of Illinois. A number of people will be speaking after me. They’re experts, consultants [...]
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When it merits, we 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: New Chicago Brewing Not New Chicago Brewing Any More Alas, New Chicago Brewing, we hardly knew ye. And welcome, New Chicago Beer Company. The Rebranding Police must have [...]
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