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CHICAGO'S BEST BREWERIES

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THE DEFINITIVE CHICAGO CRAFT BEER MAP

Find your next favorite brewery, brewpub or bottle shop.
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THE DEFINITIVE CHICAGO CRAFT BEER MAP

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Review: Blackrocks Gnomas

Baseline tasting notes on Blackrocks Gnomas ahead of a five year cellar experiment and our first foray into cellaring canned beer.…

Ryan

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From The Cellar: New Holland Envious

Samplings of this beer in 2010 & 2011 brought about disappointment. Did 2 years in the cellar bring any improvements in this now 3-year-old brew?…

Ryan

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Adventures In CellarSitting Review: Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA

What’s that? You cellared a few bottles of Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA? Yes, yes we did. And we don’t regret it for a second.…

The Guys

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From The Cellar: Bell’s Batch 9,000

We chronicle the cellared life of Bell’s Batch 9,000 — the second-to-last in the batch series. There’s a lot of notes here so let’s get…

The Guys

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From The Cellar: Arcadia Barrel-Aged Shipwreck Porter

Popular belief tells us to age barrel-aged beers but is that the case with the Arcadia Barrel-Aged Shipwreck Porter?…

The Guys

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“12 Beers of Christmas” Review: Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale

We don’t always drink dark, heavy beers in the winter. Case in point, the malt-forward and hoppily balanced Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale.…

The Guys

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Cellar Pull: Westvleteren 12

Summing up a five-year-old pour of Trappist Westvleteren 12, the iconic Belgian Quad, in three words: Liquid. Cotton. Candy.…

Ryan

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As FBFD Approaches: What Have We Been Drinking This Summer?

What Have We Been Drinking This Summer, you ask? It’s coming to a close soon so here’s what we’ve been sippin’ on for the last…

The Guys

ABOUT GUYS DRINKING BEER

Guys Drinking Beer began in 2010 around dining room tables in the Chicago neighborhoods of Lincoln Square, North Center and Roscoe Village: the epicenter of the city's original craft beer boom.

Our premise was simple: 3 Guys, Drinking Beer, while taking notes on those beers (oh, and also playing video games).

What started as a parade of beer reviews turned into advocacy and education when small craft brewers nearly lost their right to self-distribute. We took our Save the Craft campaign (#savethecraft) and branded it as a beacon for those seeking real beer journalism, drafted from the halls of the statehouse and Chicago newsrooms.

From there, we pivoted to highlighting some of downstate Illinois' best and brightest craft brewers at our annual Chicago Craft Beer Week event - South of 80.

We cut our teeth in some of Chicago's most well-respected newsrooms. Now, we write about beer. Sure, we do other stuff too - jobs that put food on the table and keep the lights on. But if there's a pint and pen nearby, you can bet we'll be scribbling tasting notes, sharing stories and swapping intel on the latest brewery news.

GDB BY THE NUMBERS

NEWS STORIES WRITTEN: 576
BEERS REVIEWED: 391
POLITICIANS AGITATED: AT LEAST 6