{"id":28688,"date":"2019-01-04T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/?p=28688"},"modified":"2021-08-31T14:11:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T19:11:49","slug":"some-2018-tasting-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guysdrinkingbeer.com\/some-2018-tasting-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Some 2018 Tasting Notes (aka The Year In Review)"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n The Chicago craft beer scene saw plenty of change in 2018 \u2013 some laying the groundwork for what\u2019s to come in 2019 and beyond. (One constant: Dovetail’s lager is still damn good. And now they have beer in cans!)<\/p>\n A few of our collective thoughts and observations from a year of beer:<\/p>\n PLACES<\/strong><\/p>\n SOCIAL MEDIA<\/strong><\/p>\n LOOKING AHEAD<\/strong><\/p>\n On the other side of the border, Northwest Indiana is suddenly bursting with meaderies.\u00a0Valparaiso\u2019s Misbeehavin\u2019 Meads<\/a><\/strong> has consistently blown minds with their \u201cWith A Baseball Bat<\/a>\u201d series, utilizing various fruits to make what can only be called \u201ca liquid peanut butter and jelly sandwich.\u201d And as 2018 draws to a close, Crown Point welcomed Manic Meadery<\/strong><\/a>, which is already winning rave reviews, including from fellow mead makers. That said, one of the best things we drank this year<\/a> came from the almost-open Boneflower Craft Mead<\/a><\/strong>. You might have heard how the Boneflower crew started an Indiegogo campaign in May and in just 13 hours, had nearly $110,000 in support<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Also coming to Chicago in 2019: The new Second City Meadery<\/strong><\/a> plans to open a space on north Elston.<\/p>\n Dilly dilly, indeed.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n STUFF THAT SUCKED (AND ONE WAY TO HELP 2019 NOT SUCK):\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n One of us may spell out some more thoughts on this in a future post, but for now, we’re finding it pretty easy to not drink Founders Porter in favor of the Ed Fitz from Great Lakes<\/strong>, and we’ve also generally avoided their All-Day in favor of a few of the thousands of other\u00a0low-ABV IPAs in the world. Your choices are your own, but we try to spend our money conscientiously. When we put them back on our drinking roster, we’ll let you know.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n\n
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