Behold, the tap list for our second annual Chicago Craft Beer Week event – South of 80 2.0, featuring beers never-before-poured in Chicago from: Destihl, Rolling Meadows Brewery, Scratch Brewing, Six Row Brewing Company and Urban Chestnut Brewing Company.
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In the days leading up to our second South of 80 event during Chicago Craft Beer Week, we wanted to make you a little more familiar with our featured breweries. Today we take a look at what we consider to be hands down one of the most interesting brewers in the state, if not the whole Midwest: Scratch
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South of 80 returns for Chicago Craft Beer Week, Tuesday May 21st, at The Green Lady. This years event will feature downstate and St. Louis area brewers Destihl, Rolling Meadows, Scratch Brewing, Six Row and Urban Chestnut.
~ 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 [...]
~ read more ~On Friday, May 6th, Anheuser-Busch’s attorney’s filed a motion in federal court asking Judge Robert Dow Jr. to extend the stay on his decision regarding a lawsuit over distribution rights in Illinois. A-B will formally present this motion on May 27th. You are probably sick of reading the background on this issue, but just in [...]
~ read more ~RYAN: If their is one constant I took away from my time covering state government in Springfield it’s that things rarely play out the way you anticipate they will. There are twists and turns and bends in the negotiation process and sometimes the final bill that is produced is not a popular option. In fact, [...]
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