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What Others Are Saying:

Guys Drinking Beer…has done excellent reporting on this issue (of self-distribution) with their advocacy Save the Craft campaign…— Chicago Magazine

Sparging the News: Check Out Goose Island’s Cans

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Just posted to Twitter by the AV Club:

“Snazzy new case of @gooseisland 312 cans. In stores 3/12, our mouths later today.”

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Sparging The News: Galactic is Back, Fountainhead Gets Wet, Two Brothers Take Over

Like we always say, Half Acre does have the most kickass labels.

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:

Like we always say, Half Acre does have the most kickass labels.

Way before the nation went Canadian Breakfast Stout crazy, the city of Chicago went mildly [...]

Sparging the News: City Provisions, New Chicago Beer, Stone Pumpkin Collaboration

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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 [...]

City Provisions, A Cherry Dunkelweiss & Homebrewing Meets the Masses

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KARL: We stopped by City Provisions in Ravenswood this week, taken in by the opportunity to drink a nanobrewed cherry dunkel weiss created in conjunction with the proprietor, Cleetus Friedman, and the folks at Flossmoor Brewing Company. We came in looking for beer. We left with the promise of future master-crafted “homebrewing” [...]

312 Heads East; We Get Mad, Then Calm Down (Somewhat)

Image used with permission from Jeff Cagle.

KARL: Goose Island is reminding me more and more of that documentary about Wilco, because it’s like they are trying to break our hearts. The graphic our friend Jeff mocked up in the hours after the GI/A-B announcement in March is looking more and more prophetic, isn’t [...]

A Very GDB “Summer Vacation”

Looks like good times.  We're doing something similar. Via.

Looks like good times. We're doing something similar. Via.

As you may have noticed, our posting frequency has gone WAY down in the past couple weeks.  Between some various life rearrangements on the parts of a few of us here, we’re kind of on summer vacation.  This is just a heads up to say [...]

(Belated) Earth Day and Beer: Bring On the Mini-Keg!

DraughtKegs. You know, these things?

KARL: When it comes to “drinking green,” we’d like you to first put aside all thoughts of whatever terrible swill you may or may not have ingested around St. Patrick’s Day.  Sure, we maybe have missed Earth Day by a full weekend, but we figured it might be high time anyway to acknowledge and further [...]

Sparging the News, Saving the Craft: How Indiana Handles Craft Brewery Legislation

KARL: Far be it from me to agree with just about anything Indiana does ever, but they do seem to know a thing or two about handling their craft brewing scene.  The  Times of Northwest Indiana reported recently that Three Floyds was creeping in on the current 20,000 barrel limit for microbreweries.

According to [...]

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: Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head Discusses Goose Island Sale

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Carly Fisher of The Feast tweeted this at us this morning, and we thought it interesting enough to pass it on to you, Constant Reader.  Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head (who you may remember from a little show called Brewmasters, which he discussed with Karl here) was at an event last night where The Feast [...]

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