Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

APRIL 22, 2024

As you saw last week, Orkenoy announced that their last day was yesterday (see below for Block Club’s story). Subscribe now Block Club reported on yesterday’s closure of Ørkenoy Brewery after four years at the Kimball Arts Center. As penance I drank an Only Interested In Bangers this week; it was delicious.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Also at noon, the Naperville Winter Ale Fest takes place with 150+ beers, an infusion tent (remember Randalls?), Speaking of Goose , they bottled their BA Shamrock Stout for the first time this year. What fruit is Odd Side adding to their 15th Anniversary stout ? Guess right and you could win a lifetime mug club membership.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Per Block Club, they’re going to have the transition complete by the time Phish plays the nearby United Center in mid-July. The ILCC updated the regulations as it regards how retailers can present alcohol-infused products like boozy ice cream; you can read the full press release here. You may recognize the byline.

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The Whiskey Wash

MARCH 14, 2025

In early 2022, five Fercullen single malt barrels were sent to the brewery to mature their Opus One Imperial Stout before being returned to Powerscourt and filled with 13-year-old single grain whiskey. Initially released at 48.5% Initially released at 48.5%

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VinePair

JANUARY 28, 2025

The flavor imparted by the barrels gives the product such great depth that its impossible not to appreciate both the Imperial Stout and the cask-rested four-grain bourbon.” This unique aging process infuses the whiskey with extraordinary complexity, balancing smooth Irish tradition with exotic undertones. Rabbit Hole.

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Imbibe Magazine

MARCH 3, 2025

Excess equaled excellence in IPAs and imperial stouts, and customers craved more, more, more. Insurgent craft breweries, so good at creating characterful stouts and pale ales, didnt dabble in NA beer due to cost. Guinness is trialing the NA version of its flagship stout on draft in the U.K., The pandemic broke that boozy spell.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MARCH 14, 2025

This is anecdotal, of course, but I have been seeing so many more Irish-style reds and dry Irish stouts on social feeds of late, supplemented by other porters and UK-related styles. At Printers Row Brewing , their Stout & Porter Party kicks off at noon with five different stouts and porters. Obviously St.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

A Rare Beer Club subscription: Earlier in the year, the founder of MonthlyClubs.com (and a fellow Chicagoland expat) reached out with an invite to try their Rare Beer Club as part of their 30th anniversary celebration. Toppling Goliath recently introduced a new line of THC-infused sparkling waters. Two very compelling arguments.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Openings are slowing, closures are accelerating, symptomatic of a dicey moment when no one is quite sure if drinkers want to double-fist NA beers and THC-infused seltzers, or just crush dizzyingly strong double IPAs. Chris supports his small community by helping to showcase the arts, causes, and clubs. and the legendary Exchequer Pub.

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