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JULY 26, 2024

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. They actually sat down with the offending customer and had a beer together. You’ll get Dovetail beer and four samples of landjaeger, so how can you pass that up?

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Tomorrow, over a hundred people will be gathering for the brew day of Vibes Since 1920 , a collaborative beer slated for release in March for Women’s Month. Converse is the hospitality & event manager for Solemn Oath and Hidden Hand and also the creator of FoBAB’s Lager Lounge. How’d all this come together?

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APRIL 24, 2024

Normally, there’s no real good reason to leave Santa Barbara, California, and drive due north on Mission Canyon Road in search of great beer. That day, the 78-acre expanse temporarily transforms into the Beer Garden, a festival that encourages attendees to stroll past California plants—and drink them too.

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OCTOBER 18, 2024

averieswanson A post shared by @averieswanson Another heartwarmer of an event comes from The Beer Temple , which is hosting a Pouring for Neighbors WNC Hurricane Relief gathering on October 26th with help from Half Acre, Cruz Blanca, Maplewood and others. Go lend a hand and have a few beers and bites. So, that’s nice!

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JUNE 21, 2024

Really cold beer. It’s another crazy weekend for events at breweries all over the place. Here are a bunch of upcoming… This Weekend: All weekend long, you can head to Goldfinger Brewing Company for their “Community Weekend” which means $6 beers today through Sunday. You know what I’ve heard helps?

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JANUARY 19, 2024

And I thought Halloween and New Years were busy — the next few weeks have so many fun-looking events at breweries that I apologize in advance for whichever ones I missed. Plenty of time to hop on the free shuttle and try all four variants of the Hop Frost Cold IPA. Outdoor beers and oysters? Yes please.

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AUGUST 30, 2024

Just wait until you see the list of Oktoberfest events, though.) It is, however, a great weekend to go out and find a new brewery, beer bar or bottleshop to visit. Later This Month: Head to Milwaukee on September 7th for this year’s Pilot Project Fest, featuring over two dozen beer and beverage makers.

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APRIL 26, 2024

The World Beer Cup awards were announced Wednesday night and I’m always thrilled when the most competitive award goes to a Midwestern brewery — even more so when it’s one of my favorites in Chicago. Old Irving Brewery’s Beezer beat out 325 other beers to earn the Gold Medal for Juicy/Hazy IPA.

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APRIL 19, 2024

If you enjoyed their beers, good news — they already have plans to keep popping up around town. From their announcement: “This isn’t the end - it’s a transition…We will continue to harness the kindness and power of the Chicago beer community and to share our visions of beer and brewing.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Craft Beer & Brewing’s annual Best in Beer issue has dropped , and with it come a number of accolades for Chicagoland and Midwestern breweries. (No Hop Butcher cracked the Top 10 for IPA brewer with Bell’s a few ticks higher at #6. Sounds like a great reason to crack open a beer or two. ” Yeehaw.

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MARCH 8, 2024

Hi, all — Sharing this one with you a little early as I’m currently on the way to Kalamazoo, where I’ll be attending a pre-Oberon Day media event at Bell’s. This year’s Pink Boots Society beer releases today at Dovetail and both Miskatonic spaces. Will keep you posted via Instagram stories.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

On January 12, 2011, something very important happened in the Chicago beer world: Haymarket Pub & Brewery opened for the first time. That means that today is Haymarket’s 13th birthday, and they’re celebrating with some special gifts for us: Their award-winning Defender Stout and Matthias IPA. They’ll love that.

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MAY 31, 2024

You’re receiving this email a little early today, because I’m heading into town for a show at the Salt Shed this evening, which means I’ll likely be drinking some Salt Shed Goose Island beers slightly before showtime. “Craft beer is now ordinary.” And now, events! I did donuts in my Jeep.”

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

USAToday’s 10Best.com regularly runs a variety of craft-beer focused competitions and there are a wide array of Midwestern contenders for the awards currently being discussed. Would love to see Geneva get their due as a great small town beer scene — didn’t expect to see that included.

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Imbibe Magazine

MAY 22, 2024

Teams could register at their leisure, maybe over morning coffees or evening beers. Photos by Tim Robison Sports and beer have long occupied intersections of perspiration and spectatorship. Beer is a reward for exertion, or what fans grip and sip while rooting for home teams and underdogs. notably owned the St.

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VinePair

OCTOBER 15, 2024

On Saturday, the Brewers Association (BA) announced the winners of the 2024 Great American Beer Festival. The annual event, held this year in Denver from October 10 to 12, celebrates small breweries across the U.S. as the country’s largest professional beer competition. Bronze: IPA for Aliens, Masthead Brewing Co.,

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MARCH 15, 2024

So if you see me out and about with a green beer in my hand, no you didn’t. But I might pop up at a beer bar or a brewery or two around the north side over the next 48 hours or so. Here’s something unique: Tomorrow night, Whiner Beer is hosting a St. Lucky Dorr returns for a new season of beer drinking on March 23.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Let’s all now take a moment to appreciate their awesome logo: A Scottish Highland cow that’s also a hop cone: Subscribe now Also, a brief reminder that voting for the annual array of beer-centric USAToday 10Best Readers Choice awards closes at noon on Monday. Not sure what all that is? Seedz really wants your vote.)

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MAY 24, 2024

First up, a little pre-holiday-weekend admin: Due to the Memorial Day holiday, we will not be publishing a beer news email on Monday , but we will be hoping you can enjoy a little time off, presumably with a beer or three. If that interested you, you can attend their relaunch event at Emporium Arcade Bar in Logan Square on the 29th.

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MARCH 29, 2024

With their Grand Opening today, we’d like to officially welcome Demo to the Chicagoland beer scene! Even the most unadventurous of tourists now have no excuse not to get a local beer (of course, they should also stop at Crushed by Giants as well). Today, they open up the doors and welcome us all inside.

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VinePair

JUNE 23, 2024

But beer tourism? Even then, taking a vacation devoted to beer is a harder thing to justify. Nonetheless, there are stellar breweries around the country that bring beer nerds to their taprooms every year to score their most coveted releases. Wine tourism is a bonafide industry. Curating such a list is no small feat.

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Imbibe Magazine

MARCH 18, 2024

Whether you’re seeking a well-made craft cocktail, a beer brewed with local ingredients, or an education on mezcal, Tucson brings it home. Built out in a converted 1940s auto garage in downtown Tucson, Crooked Tooth Brewing incorporates an air of mysticism, from celestial artwork and events to the rotating monthly Full Moon Brew.

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

Now open in Woodstock : MobCraft Beer Woodstock! But after the year in beer that we’ve had, I’ll take positivity where I can find it. But after the year in beer that we’ve had, I’ll take positivity where I can find it. “ Until this new hazy IPA from Lil’Why came out, at least.

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JUNE 10, 2024

Pacific Northwest-based Alaska Airlines serves Straightaway canned cocktails and Stumptown coffee from Portland, Oregon, as well as a custom-brewed IPA from Seattle’s Fremont Brewing and the nonalcoholic Electro Lime Cerveza from Northern California’s Best Day Brewing.

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JULY 10, 2024

By night, Forîn hosts residencies for local restaurants, and pours wine, beer, and cocktails, like an Espresso Martini with house coffee. The zero-proof drinks list includes the Fruits of Labor, featuring house-made grapefruit cordial topped with bubbles, and Athletic NA beers. It’s a great place to go and relax with a beer.”

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JULY 1, 2024

With the long holiday weekend coming up, if you’re in the area, I’d invite you to take a spin through our Chicagoland Craft Beer Map and find someplace new to visit for a beer. Try something different at your local beer bar or neighborhood taproom. Axios Indianapolis praised Triton’s Rail Splitter IPA.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

It’s safe to say that the craft beer boom has now reached nearly every corner of the globe. This year’s list of the best beer destinations recognizes cities with up-and-coming craft scenes, many of which have exploded in recent years. Head to the taproom for crisp, low-ABV brews marked by notes of tropical fruits and citrus.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 26, 2024

On New Years Eve, customers can bring back used trees, stripped of tinsel, lights and ornaments, and receive an Indian Ladder beer or cider in return. Bonfires Bring People Together During Winter Events have become integral to a brewerys success, be it a weekly trivia night or a skee-ball league. bonfire that is, bring your own tree.

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MARCH 25, 2024

To all of us, I recommend reading this story on Forbes about Oberon’s history, its status as a state “holiday” and then also a look at the many Oberon release day events around Michigan. I’m not fully sure why a publication called The Tech Edvocate wrote up a story praising The Beer Temple , but they did!

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VinePair

DECEMBER 27, 2023

If you compiled all of the headlines covering craft beer over the past 12 months and gave your summation on the state of the industry, you might grumble something about a Bob Dylan song in between sips of your Flavortown spiked fruit punch. If you want great beer and good vibes, look no further: GOAL. What did I enjoy the most?

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JUNE 24, 2024

First up, some breaking news this afternoon: Short Fuse has announced that they were the ones who purchased the brand rights to Metropolitan Brewing , and will begin brewing Metro’s beers for sale from their Schiller Park taproom to start. Someone else making their beers without them being involved isn’t Metro to me.

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Cheers

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Beer sales have been less than desirable as of late, to put it mildly. beer industry’s volume consumption decreased 4.4% Just two beer segments — imported and flavored malt beverages (FMBs) — achieved any volume growth and that wasn’t enough to offset the significant decline of other domestic beer categories.

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APRIL 5, 2024

April is a busy month, so let’s get straight to our… First up: Tomorrow morning, The Beer Temple will sell tickets to this year’s Cantillon Zwanze Day. VIP tickets and higher add an hour of extra access to the fest beers, food from Craft Urban and a code for a free ride home from Lyft. Great idea!

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MAY 6, 2024

When spring finally kicks in, it’s a great time to be a beer drinker in the Midwest. With all that going on, allow yourself to be a little hopeful about craft beer this week. For us, the annual Beer Under Glass festival always serves as a kickoff for a great few months of warm-weather beer drinking and this year was no different.

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JULY 8, 2024

John, we thought we’d take a few minutes to poke around on the status of a few things in Northwest Indiana’s once-thriving craft beer scene. Their IL distro kick-off event is Wednesday at Crafted 1979 in Mokena. Most-clicked link in last week’s email : Who Killed Craft Beer from Time Out London.

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

I snagged the last three 6’ers I was able to find at Binnys and I’ve been working through them this week because it’s lager and you drink beer, you don’t hoard it. Who’s ready for a beer? This week’s Craft Beer & Brewing podcast features a conversation with Tom Beckmann of Goldfinger Brewing.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

” You’d think the guys who hosted an ICBW event called South of 80 would know that. WGLT reported on the new custom beer that Illinois Wesleyan University has launched with Destihl. Madtree’s PsycHOPathy IPA - apparently the first Ohio craft beer to be canned - has had a bit of a rebrand.

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