{"id":12161,"date":"2013-08-26T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/?p=12161"},"modified":"2021-08-31T08:55:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T13:55:57","slug":"distribution-roundup-buckledown-penrose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/distribution-roundup-buckledown-penrose\/","title":{"rendered":"Distribution Roundup: BuckleDown Brewing To Wirtz, Penrose Brewing Company To Windy City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of Chicago area breweries inked distribution deals late last week: <a href=\"https:\/\/buckledownbrewing.com\/\">BuckleDown Brewing<\/a> signed on with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wirtzbev.com\/\">Wirtz<\/a> for Chicago area only distribution while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penrosebrewing.com\/\">Penrose Brewing Company<\/a> went with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.windycitydistribution.com\/\">Windy City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_1052.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11255 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_1052.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_1052.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_1052-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMG_1052-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BuckleDown&#8217;s Belt &amp; Suspenders, an American IPA, was a favorite of ours at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/chicago-craft-beer-week-beer-under-glass-a-recap-in-bullet-points\/\">Beer Under Glass<\/a>. The brewery, which is still in the planing stages in Lyons, IL, is the brainchild of Ike Orcutt and Sean Mahoney. If those names sound familiar the two were behind\u00a0<a title=\"The Hypothesis Of Hopothesis Brewing Company\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/the-hypothesis-of-hopothesis-brewing-company\/\">Hopothesis Brewing Company<\/a>, whose beers first started appearing on shelves last summer.<\/p>\n<p>BuckleDown will roll out four beers &#8212; all on draft &#8212; beginning on November 1st including: Mirth, a Belgian Single, Fiddlesticks, a Belgian IPA, the aforementioned Belt &amp; Suspenders and Shady Aftermath, a porter.<\/p>\n<p>BuckleDown becomes the fifth craft brewery that has signed on with Wirtz since they launched they craft division last fall.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Penrose Brewing Company, which is in Geneva, IL, also isn&#8217;t open yet. They&#8217;ll get their beer to market a month earlier than BuckleDown with an October launch. Tom Korder and Eric Hobbs make up the team at Penrose. They both used to work at Goose Island.<\/p>\n<p>Penrose doesn&#8217;t have much information out about their beers right now. A promotional, one-sheeter, states: &#8220;<em>Penrose will focus on Belgian inspired session ales, oak barrel-aging, and alternative fermentation<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two new Chicago area breweries, BuckleDown Brewing and Penrose Brewing Company, have inked distribution deals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[771,772,403,553],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Distribution Roundup: BuckleDown Brewing To Wirtz, Penrose Brewing Company To Windy City - Guys Drinking Beer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Two new Chicago area breweries, BuckleDown Brewing and Penrose Brewing Company, have inked distribution deals.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/distribution-roundup-buckledown-penrose\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Distribution Roundup: BuckleDown Brewing To Wirtz, Penrose Brewing Company To Windy City - 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