Your new Illinois March 2013 Beer labels hail from 5 Rabbit, Argus, Atlas Brewing, Big Muddy, Big Shoulders, Church Street, Haymarket, Excel, Lake Effect, Metropolitan, Nomad Brewery, Revolution, Ridgebrook Brewery and Ten Ninety.
(Editors note: There seems to be very little a little bit more information on Nomad Brewery. The name is trademarked by Lush Wine & Spirits (h/t to a commenter on the Beer Mapping forum for catching that). It’s barrel aged beer (below) is produced and bottled at Lincoln Park Brewery Inc, located at 1800 N Clybourn Ave, which is the Goose Island Clybourn brewpub. For those of you who fear that AB InBev is parading out “craft beer” under an assumed name, we would like to point out that the Clybourn brewpub is NOT owned by AB InBev but operates separate from Goose Island Beer Co.)
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- Ten Ninety Imperial India Pale Ale
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- Ten Ninety Imperial Witbier
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- Ten Ninety Jaggery Tripel
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- Church Street Brimstone IPA
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- 5 Rabbit Huitzi
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- Reolution Brwewing Rosa
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- Revolution Galaxy-Hero India Pale Ale
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- Big Shoulders Crosstown Wheat
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- Big Muddy Blueberry Blonde
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- Nomad Brewery “Beer that is aged in Bourbon Barrels”
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- Argus Trotter Double IPA
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- Argus Wild Rice Ale
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- Excel Carlyle Lake Lager
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- Metropolitan Smoked Bock Lager
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- Off Color Brewing Enough Already Ale
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- Haymarket Mathias Imperial India Pale Ale
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- Haymarket Last Chance Belgian Style India Pale Ale
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- Haymarket First Chance
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- Haymarket Speakerswagon Pilsner
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- Lake Effect Falcon Dive India Pale Ale
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- Lake Effect Weissbier
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- Lake Effect Malty Medley
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- Ridgebrook Brewery Short -N-Stout
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- Ridgebrook Brewery Hoppy TrAle
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- Atlas Brewing Andromeda Milk Stout
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- Atlas Brewing Burnham Brown Rye Ale
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- Atlas Brewing Golden Ale
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- Atlas Brewing Hyperion Double India Pale Ale
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- Atlas Brewing Obfuscation Imperial Stout
Each week (or thereabouts) we pore over a database of beer labels approved by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, or TTB, to bring you new, reworked or re-branded beers from brewers across Illinois (and sometimes Northwest Indiana) before they hit store shelves.
You can do this too, if you want! All of these are publicly available through the TTB’s website. But you don’t have to, because you have us and we’re the dorks that find this kinda stuff interesting.
Note: Just because a beer label has cleared the TTB does not mean it will be released soon, if at all. Many breweries send labels to the TTB to have them available should they decide to release a beer, or with plans to release a beer but may not be released for any number of reasons. Treat these labels as an idea of what your favorite Illinois breweries might be doing, but nothing is certain until the breweries release the actual beer.