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This Week's Chicago-Centric Craft Beer Events & Socials

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As of a few days ago, Demo Brewery reported that y’all had drank them out of six of their ten beers. Premium Subscribers knew of this beverage’s existence a couple weeks ago, but now Three Floyds has told the rest of the world about their new Dark Lord whiskey. Good work. That’s a lot of stuff going on.

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The 2024 Charleston Wine + Food Festival Returns With Elevated Bubbles and Bites

VinePair

They can indulge in cuisine from local chefs, have their pick of beers, wines, cocktails, and non-ABV beverages, dance along to a silent disco, shop the wares of local artists and authors, consider larger dishes for purchase, watch cooking competitions, and enjoy comedy sets on a demo stage.

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This Week's Circus-y & Chicago-y Craft Beer Events & Socials

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That said, congrats to those of you who are happy enough with your current jobs that you don’t need to see any other available roles in the beer business: If you’re not at Dark Lord Day tomorrow (or getting their new Dark Lord whiskey right now !), Dog Lager at (of course) Clark Street Dog.

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Are Bartender’s Handshake Shots Still Cool if They’re on the Menu?

VinePair

Meanwhile, Chicago barkeeps have long bonded over the “ punishment ” of Malört and high-proof whiskeys, just as San Francisco bartenders in Italian-leaning North Beach wink-winked over nips of Italian Fernet-Branca. Many of us know what’s in an M&M because we watched a demo on TikTok. All those barriers are gone,” Briglio says.

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The Restaurant’s Guide to St. Patrick’s Day Promotions

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Irish Whiskeys Offering a promotion on Irish whiskey is another unique draw. For an upmarket event, why not bring in an expert to host a whiskey tasting? Patrick’s Day restaurant ideas to offer as upgrades: Whiskey flight add-on : Offer a tasting experience of premium Irish whiskeys. Patrick’s Day.

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Q&A with Jen Batchelor, Founder of Kin Euphorics

Dry Atlas

So much of this non-alcoholic space is about creating these analogs, these one-for-one, non-alcoholic whiskeys, for example. Test and push the palates of our core demo and of the world at large. For us, it was like: “no, I want to create iconic flavors. I want to create something that never existed before.”

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A Tuesday Post-Holiday Beer News Dump

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In other “maybe it’s still happening” news, we’re still hoping for the opening of Demo Brewing in Ravenswood. Whiskey Hill hasn’t posted about their Mount Prospect location in a while, which they said was supposed to open in late fall — but that’s still on our radar too.

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