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This Week's Midwestern Beer Events & Socials: Demo Time

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Here’s an update we’re happy to see: After many months of waiting, Demo Brewery has finally announced an opening date. Dovetail’s Sunday afternoon soba noodle demo is sold out, but you can still head to their loft at 4pm for a tachinomi (or standing bar) experience with Japanese-style beer service. Nice to see.

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

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I know in my head that it was just last Friday because we have these poll results to look at…but it doesn’t feel like it: A majority of “I’ll get there at some point” kinda sums up a lot about craft beer at the current moment, doesn’t it? Good work.

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Spring Has Already Sprung (With a Lot Of Beer News)

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Subscribe now Block Club Chicago got the first inside look at Demo Brewing , which recently had a soft open in advance of their official grand opening at the end of the month. ” You know what that means: 32oz pours of Imperial Stout, coming up! Axios Indianapolis looks at the state of Indiana’s craft beer scene. (It’s

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This Week's Beer News: Are They Joking?

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How about a Dilla/Moor’s collab beer?) PorchDrinking profiles Demo Brewing as they finally open to the public. No pumpkin beer ever? VinePair has a nice look at why Minnesota is such a hotbed of Russian Imperial Stout adoration, including the backstory of the first Surly Darkness Day. Paul in 2025.

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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. Subscribe now Did any Chicagoland beer maker have a better 2024 than Funkytown ? WTTW had them on to talk about their efforts in bringing Black cultural influences into craft beer.

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This Week's Beer News: Below 230 (Briefly)

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Subscribe now This takes our list of Chicagoland beermakers below 230 for the first time in quite a while … but we’ll be back above it soon with Demo Brewing opening its doors at the end of the month, and it looks like Industry Ales should be operational soon as well. Per Axios, NA beers had a big January in Detroit.

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How JBeer Happened, with Ray Stout of the ICBG

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The Democratic National Convention is the biggest political event to happen in Chicago in decades, so if there’s a craft beer angle to that gathering, we’re going to cover it. Ray Stout, executive director of the Illinois Craft Brewers Guild , chatted with us about just that. How’d they make that happen?

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