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Get 20% off for 1 year Last night’s birthday beers included a Gnosis Brewing Gnack lager, a Farm Club Schwarzbier and a Hop Butcher Grid IPA. This year’s Ravenswood On Tap craftbeer and music fest takes place tomorrow and Sunday, and the poster for this year’s event is awesome. Like craftbeer?
Many attendees also belong to beer, wine, or whiskey clubs. Wine and beer tastings: Tasting admins often refrain from describing flavors prior to tasting and discuss them after tasting. Beer glasses: Certain shapes have become identified with specific beers since the medieval era.
Over the weekend, we saw the opening of not just the Goose Island Salt Shed Pub but also the opening of Monochrome Brewing in Pilsen 1 , and we’ve also got ten news items from around the Midwest today about taprooms opening, breweries announcing plans to open new beer gardens, new locations for beer-centric bars (including a HopCat!)
10th so if you want to pay homage to the place where Chicago’s craftbeer scene really got its start, you should probably start making plans now. Head to Goldfinger right this second if you want to try their collaboration with Surly: A “North German inspired Pils … Using Minnesota Pilsner malt and Polish hops.”
Eater and Block Club posted stories. A nice head of foam on a beer is an important thing, as this Sauce Magazine piece explains - with comment from brewers at Rockwell Brewing , Earthbound Beer and Narrow Gauge. And yes, I’ve finally accepted that it’s not an April Fools prank.) Thanks for reading!
CraftBeer & Brewing’s annual Best in Beer issue has dropped , and with it come a number of accolades for Chicagoland and Midwestern breweries. (No Mobcraft Woodstock is inviting their mug club members to check out the space in a few days, which means an official opening isn’t far off.
Apparently the initial beer menu that Doug included in his post kicked off a kerfuffle large enough to justify this whole Paste Magazine story about craftbeer pricing, which focuses on Other Half asking $16 for a pint in Bridgeport. Maplewood announced the return of their Czech-style pilsner with a very flashy video.
Coming Thursday to Wolfden Brewing : Mushroom Club ! Per the Louis Glunz team, Conrad Seipp Extra Pale Pilsner is back in town. With that obligation complete, let’s get to a big ol’ heaping helping of upcoming… Happening Monday : Maplewood’s annual Pulaski Day celebration. Not the magic ones, BTW.)
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The brewery introduced its first IPA in fall 2023, now complemented by a pilsner , and is stocked at lauded NYC bars including the Dead Rabbit and Long Island Bar. The people who are most responsive to our beer are bartenders, McFerran says. As the category evolves, breweries are aligning NA beer with different subcultures.
Let’s support that , rather than just matching our calendars to the dates where a trade organization decided years ago where to put American CraftBeer Week. This is a perilous winter for American craft breweries. Hell, the BA doesn’t even have this year’s beer week on their calendar yet. Good news (?):
When we set out to assemble this annual package of the latest and greatest breweries in the country, we envisioned a breezy survey of beer professionals brewers, bar owners, educators, writers, and more across the brewing industrys national landscape. Jonathan Moxey, head brewer at Rockwell Beer Co., That is me!
But craft brewing is just one small segment of the overall beer industry, which is governed by theses of its own, such as the importance of market access, the superiority of scale, and the basic reality that if you cant beat em, you can usually buy em. Beer sales, he added, have been growing over 100% almost across the board.
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