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Drinking beer, talking about beer, shooting photos of beer. It’s like a single-shot definition of being a brewing dork.<\/p><\/div>\n

When we stopped by the brewing space of Begyle Brewing a week or two ago, we had no idea we were right on the crest of a huge wave of news about Begyle\u2019s efforts.<\/p>\n

They were just about to head out to the Oak Park Microbrew Festival <\/a>and serve their beer for the first time. They told us about how they formulated the idea for a brewery on the back of a pedicab, about how a winery from Oregon came in and cease-and-desisted away their brewery name, about the art-space-incubator they also run, about the plan to use spent grain to make dog treats (effing brilliant, that) and how they were excited to have the Grafton as one of their very first accounts.<\/p>\n

Then everyone else wrote about it too. Damn. Shoulda just come home and written. That\u2019s my bad.<\/p>\n

You can basically, at this point, find everything you need to know about Begyle through the Aleheads interview<\/a> and through the incredibly thorough Center Square Journal <\/a>piece posted yesterday. What you can\u2019t find, however, is anything about what\u2019s most important – \u201ctell us about at least one of the beers, man,\u201d we can hear you hollering from the peanut gallery.<\/p>\n

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Well, we got to sample a few pints of their American Blonde. We drank and talked while we wandered the space checking out all their toys – the walk-in from Half Acre, homemade jacket coolers for conditioning, the 15bbl brewing rig, the gleaming and shiny fermenters awaiting precious pre-beer to make into beer-beer.<\/p>\n

So here it is. If you\u2019re one of the few who enjoyed what they were pouring at the Oak Park fest, you might have noticed this. If you\u2019re planning on stopping by at the end of September for the Ravenswood Art Walk, see if we\u2019re not completely crazy.<\/p>\n

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Begyle’s American Blonde.<\/p><\/div>\n

This beer could be Chicago\u2019s replacement for Spotted Cow. It\u2019s light, creamy, fruity on the finish, golden, refreshing and easy drinking with clear attention to detail and totally sessionable – nary a monstrous ABV to be found here.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re pretty psyched about the CSB aspect that Begyle is planning as well. Yes, we\u2019re spoiled in our neck of the woods because I can throw a growler and hit breweries like Half Acre,\u00a0 Spiteful (eventually) and Metropolitan as well as pretty awesome beer bars like Bad Apple and Fountainhead, but the subscription model is not only a newish wrinkle, it hearkens back to the time when each neighborhood had a butcher, a produce market, a fishmonger, a tailor, a blacksmith and…a brewery. We kinda can\u2019t wait to stop by on the way home from work, grab our monthly (weekly?) growler of whatever\u2019s new\/fresh\/interesting and take it home. Perhaps we\u2019ll also get a job in a coal mine, and send a 4 year old to come home with a bucket of beer, as long as we\u2019re thinking seriously oldey-timey. (Then we shall wear a turnip on our belt, as that was the style at the time.)<\/p>\n

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Here there be brewing secrets.<\/p><\/div>\n

Begyle recently received their self-distribution license (#savethecraft), so don\u2019t be surprised if you start seeing them show up on tap at places off the Brown Line sometime soon, specifically between about Irving Park and Western. In the meantime, throw them some money on this Kickstarter campaign<\/a> so we can get them to start producing growlers for us (and, okay, the rest of the neighborhood too). The brewday option with a tasting party for 12 is particularly awesome, and has us wondering who we can hit up at work to make happen.<\/p>\n

And seriously, see if we\u2019re not crazy about that American Blonde.<\/p>\n

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