{"id":21847,"date":"2016-12-19T14:45:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T20:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/?p=21847"},"modified":"2021-08-31T12:25:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T17:25:12","slug":"breaking-odell-brewing-entering-illinois-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/breaking-odell-brewing-entering-illinois-in-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Odell Brewing Entering Illinois in February"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Exciting news for Illinois drinkers comes from Colorado today – beers from Fort Collins’\u00a0Odell<\/strong> Brewing<\/strong> are coming to Illinois via Breakthru Beverage.<\/p>\n Odell has long been in our list of “top five breweries we’d love to see come to Chicago”. (The top of the list, Short’s<\/strong>, announced their arrival to Illinois<\/a> earlier this year. Others on the list include Ninkasi<\/strong> and Perrin<\/strong>.) We’ve grown to appreciate their well-balanced, thoughtful offerings over a few trips to Colorado and also thanks to friends and family hauling 12-packs back from the state.<\/p>\n They make damn good beer, which is why they’ve grown to one of the largest craft breweries in the country — #32 on last year’s Brewers Association list<\/a> – without any beer being east of the Mississippi. Opening up Chicago should only further push their growth and having their beers – specifically 90 Shilling and Myrcenary – available regularly makes us pretty happy. It also, in our mind, reaffirms the Chicago market as one of the best places in the nation to drink craft beer.<\/p>\n Folks who only follow local beer news would probably recognize Odell as the brewery responsible for forcing the name change of Mercenary Brewing & Distilling<\/strong> to what we now know as Maplewood<\/strong>. Odell claimed that the Mercenary name was too close to their Myrcenary Double IPA for trademark comfort, which prompted the name change.<\/p>\n