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Was June 2014 Chicago's Craft Beer High Water Mark? (+Events & Socials)

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The amount of 10th anniversary events emerging over the last few weeks have made me wonder: Was May-June 2014 the busiest time in Chicago craft beer history? Hailstorm Brewing also celebrates ten years of beers with a party on Saturday and a special anniversary release of their GABF medal-winning Prairie Madness Pale Ale.

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Just For Fun: Here's Our Very First Beer News Email from April 2014

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I recently realized that I started emailing people beer news almost exactly ten years ago. Just for fun, I thought I’d share that original email exclusively with my Premium Subscribers this morning. … Read more

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Two Taproom Closures Announced (Plus This Week's New Beer Labels)

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Before we jump into the weekly label roundup, we have to acknowledge a couple of closure announcements that just hit the Chicagoland beer scene. Temperance established itself early by taking home a GABF Silver for their Gatecrasher IPA in 2014, which went on to earn Gold in 2016.

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This Week's Beer News: 2024 BCS Variants Officially Announced

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Vanilla Rye is obviously a return to the near-iconic version released back in 2014 1 and Macaroon promises coconut, ginger and cocoa nibs, which sounds just fine to me. Forbes recommended 8 beers for summer drinking , including Belgian at the Beach by the new-to-town Cerveceria Paracaidista. Pretty handy! More coverage here and here.

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This Week's Beer Events & Socials: Keeping Keeping Together Together

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Some genuinely unfortunate news from Averie Swanson, owner of Keeping Together , the beer brand founded in Chicago that’s working to open a space in Santa Fe, NM. Very 2014 of y’all. They actually sat down with the offending customer and had a beer together. Like craft beer? Four chefs, four dogs, one wiener.

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The 2024 Beer Growth Brands Award Winners

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The beer industry’s struggles have continued this past year as consumers gravitate to spirits and cocktails and ready-to-drink (RTD) beverages, more of which seem to hit the market each week. But among the people whose drink of choice is beer, what are the favorite brands today? The leading hard seltzer in the U.S.,

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The 10 Weirdest Ingredients Ever Put Into Beer

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Putting unorthodox ingredients and adjuncts into beer is nothing new. Pumpkin beer has marked spooky season since the early ‘80s and the pastry stout boom of the mid-2010s saw everything from brownies and marshmallows to coffee and ancho chiles get added to brews. We’ve actually tried this one, and it’s pretty damn good.

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