{"id":14016,"date":"2014-03-31T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/?p=14016"},"modified":"2018-02-06T14:17:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T20:17:00","slug":"ten-ninety-big-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/ten-ninety-big-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewery Handoff: Ten Ninety Acquires Big Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10617\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/march-2013-beer-labels\/tenninetyimpporter\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10617\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10617\" class=\"wp-image-10617 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tenninetyimpporter-600x415.jpg\" alt=\"Ten Ninety\" width=\"600\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tenninetyimpporter-600x415.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tenninetyimpporter-768x532.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/tenninetyimpporter.jpg 975w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10617\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ten Ninety Imperial Porter<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If 2012-2013 saw the expansion of the brewing balloon, 2014 and forward will probably see some of those breweries go through shakeouts, acquisitions, ownership transfers, outright sales and other ways of handing off a lot of stainless steel. One of those was announced to us over the weekend\u00a0, as Ten Ninety acquires Big Chicago Brewing in Zion.<\/p>\n<p>Big Chicago (not to be confused with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigshouldersbeer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Big Shoulders<\/a>, not to be confused with Broad Shoulders) has transferred ownership of their contract brewery in Zion to the Ten Ninety team, where they&#8217;ll be creating their beers along with BC&#8217;s contract clients.<\/p>\n<p>Ten Ninety&#8217;s Brian Shafer sent us this statement over the weekend:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Ten Ninety is excited to announce their acquisition of Big Chicago in Zion, IL. \u00a0Ten Ninety will continue to offer contract brewing services as well as brew their own brand. \u00a0Ten Ninety has retained all of the employees of Big Chicago and are looking to increase production and open a tasting room. \u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Big Chicago was responsible for brewing local brands including the aforementioned Big Shoulders, along with clients like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.craftbrewingbusiness.com\/news\/cahoots-brewing-contracts-big-chicago-brewing-first-batch\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cahoots <\/a>and Middle Brow. Ten Ninety first hit our radar last year at <a title=\"Chicago Craft Beer Week Kicks Off With Beer Under Glass: A Recap In Bullet Points\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/chicago-craft-beer-week-beer-under-glass-a-recap-in-bullet-points\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beer Under Glass, <\/a>and Ryan <a title=\"Embrace the Imperial with Ten Ninety Brewing\" href=\"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/embrace-the-imperial-with-ten-ninety-brewing\" target=\"_blank\">spoke with them last August<\/a> about their beers. (Over at TOC, I also really liked their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/chicago\/food-drink\/drink-this-now-ten-ninetys-imperial-porter\" target=\"_blank\">Imperial Porter<\/a> as well.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Ten Ninety acquires Big Chicago in Zion, they&#8217;ll be making contract beers for the likes of middle brow and Cahoots, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[552,716],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ten Ninety Acquires Big Chicago | Guys Drinking Beer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As Ten Ninety acquires Big Chicago in Zion, they&#039;ll be making contract beers for the likes of middle brow and Cahoots, among others.\" \/>\n<meta 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