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MAY 17, 2024

Facebook Memories reminded us that the Lagunitas Beer Circus — perhaps the most bizarre beer event we’ve ever attended — kicked off in Chicago a decade ago. Happy Friday, friends! Hey, remember when Lagunitas was fun? I mean, when was the last time you saw a Kegway?

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

And now, let’s get to a big ol’ mess of: If you’re in the Mitten tomorrow, the Michigan Brewers Guild is hosting their annual Winter Beer Fest just outside Grand Rapids. 120+ breweries will be pouring over 650 different beers and it’s not even gonna be too terribly winter-y.

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MARCH 1, 2024

How can you not attend an event that features a Complimentary Meat Cart? Black Lung is on the hunt for stoner bands for a 4/20 event. With that obligation complete, let’s get to a big ol’ heaping helping of upcoming… Happening Monday : Maplewood’s annual Pulaski Day celebration. Not the magic ones, BTW.)

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APRIL 19, 2024

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. Beers poured by them plus a demo? Yes please.

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MARCH 29, 2024

In advance of National Beer Day, a gathering of a couple dozen beer and beverage makers are gathering at Artifact Events on April 5th for something they’re calling New Beer’s Eve. Nice to have some long-awaited additions to the Chicagoland brewing scene finally open their doors. Early April is gonna be busy!

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APRIL 26, 2024

This would be a great way to try beers from the likes of 206 Brewing, Wolfden Brewing, Nik & Ivy, Fox Republic and more. If you’re closer to Elkhart, Indiana tomorrow, we got a heads up that the Bottlecaps & Corks fundraising event is taking place, which is held by the St.

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JULY 26, 2024

Like craft beer? You’ll want to be at this year’s Dancing in the Streets event on Aug 2-4, hosted by the Chicago Brewing District. If you’re near O’Hare on August 3rd (or if you’re not), Mikerphone is hosting their Smells Like A Beer Fest. Four chefs, four dogs, one wiener.

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MAY 10, 2024

They started out in CDMX in 2015 and have had a couple collabs with Pilot Project’s Brewers Kitchen brand in the last year, but now they’re rolling out some beers stateside with the PP team. Happy Friday, friends!

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APRIL 5, 2024

If it’s been a while since your last visit to Monk’s Pub in the Loop, stop by next Thursday (the 11th) for a pour of Allagash White at their Drink Beer Save Animals event. $1 If you want to drink craft beer at its source and play some video slots, good news: Will County Brewing’s Channahon location now has gaming.

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Imbibe Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Hallonquist volunteered at events. They bonded over their love of beer, lamenting that few mainstream beer brands catered to the queer community outside of Pride Month. Sometime in the 2010s, consuming craft beer turned into a personality trait. This is a new market for craft beer.”—Sarah

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JANUARY 12, 2024

We also want to make mention of another addition to our Chicagoland craft beer map : We originally listed the Barley Haus by Church Street as only being a taproom, but we saw a fermenter, got curious and asked the team there what was up. Go imagine how different their West Loop neighborhood looks today vs when they opened.

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OCTOBER 11, 2024

Later This Month (and Beyond): This year’s Beer Culture Summit kicks off on Wednesday night with A Celebration of Life and Death at Revolution Brewing and continues through the 19th. Great Lakes Brewing Company’s annual First Taste event for their Christmas Ale is set for October 17. Blue Island Beer Company hosts H.O.O.F.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

One of Chicago’s original craft beers is coming back. We broke the news of its discontinuation back in early 2019 , calling it “the end of an era” as Goose was pivoting to beers like Old Man Grumpy and Next Coast IPA. Earlier today, Goose Island made it official : Honkers Ale is returning to package format.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

We’ll also talk more next week about the USAToday Readers Choice 10Best beer-related award voting going on, but while we’re here, both Funkytown Brewing and Turner Haus Brewing were also nominated this week as one of the Best New Breweries in America — so that’s pretty cool. Finally, Moor’s Brewing Co.

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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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Chilled Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2024

Duff’s impressive career includes serving as the Global Manager of experiential events and education at Ab-InBev’s Craft Beer Division, Z.X. Her role will focus on building strong relationships with key industry influencers and executing both trade and consumer-facing events on behalf of Heaven Hill’s beloved brands.

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MAY 31, 2024

“I think the wild growth in the craft brewing industry, which was a historic thing, led to a classic tragedy of the commons,” he said. “Craft beer is now ordinary.” And now, events! Remember last week when Craft Beer & Brewing praised beers from a bunch of Chicagoland breweries?

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Tomorrow night, head to Artifact Events in Ravenswood for the Best Friends Turn 11 celebration held by Begyle and Bottles & Cans. Elsewhere, Industry Ales also appears to be coming along, and we’ve got updates below on the new spaces for both Homewood Brewing and Burn’Em Brewing. Nice to see.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

Apparently the initial beer menu that Doug included in his post kicked off a kerfuffle large enough to justify this whole Paste Magazine story about craft beer pricing, which focuses on Other Half asking $16 for a pint in Bridgeport. Thank you for reading This Week's Beer News from GuysDrinkingBeer.com. Check it out.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

I realized I haven’t mentioned what has become a reliably big beer event over the last few years — the Chicago Beer Fest at the Field Museum brings together dozens of breweries at one of the city’s iconic attractions for hundreds of beer lovers to drink among the bones of dinosaurs.

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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 Former Tribune beer reporter Josh Noel is hosting a conversation at Hop Butcher on Wednesday, Nov. No surprise there; we’re the best.) ” Yeehaw.

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APRIL 1, 2024

It is, in my estimation, one of the best yet least-discussed beer bars in Chicago, and as a White Sox fan, that’s not coming from someone with any Cubs-based bias. “Some of those different events like TBOX at all the bars … being hidden where we’re at, we don’t get that as much, and it’s kinda nice.

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PubClub

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Locals cheer San Diego craft beers at Original 40 Brewing Co. Known for its craft breweries, it’s only appropriate that this neighborhood of San Diego would have a party to celebrate it. The Taste Of North Park features San Diego craft beers, food samples and live music this October. It goes from 11 a.m.-3

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

All of them have been gathered together for a project that’s the brainchild of Charolette Converse that will see 113 women, non-binary or trans participants (as of publish time) joining together to not just make a one-off beer, but to create a community to “network, educate and inspire their fellow women in the craft beer industry.”

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MAY 24, 2024

If that interested you, you can attend their relaunch event at Emporium Arcade Bar in Logan Square on the 29th. ” It must have been “review Chicago area beers month” at Craft Beer & Brewing because they gave high marks to Phase Three , Solemn Oath and Maplewood beers.

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Imbibe Magazine

APRIL 24, 2024

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. When we first started this event [in 2013], the garden was still sleepy,” Windhager says. “It The event brings people back year after year.”

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PubClub

JANUARY 23, 2024

In the bustling landscape of modern hobbies and social gatherings, the world of craft beer stands out as a unique and vibrant community, especially among students. But what is it about craft beer that brings people together, and how do these dynamics play out among students who are enthusiasts of this booming industry?

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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. ” The Des Moines Register is running a fun Craft Beer Bracket again this year, in an effort to find the state’s best beer.

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Imbibe Magazine

JUNE 10, 2024

United embraces its Midwest roots with cans of the cult-favorite craft beer Two Hearted IPA from Michigan brewery Bell’s. In keeping with their pop-up cocktail events, La Compagnie also hosts winemakers on board for tastings, such as Piper-Heidsieck Champagne. Even the flight route can play a factor. “I

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MAY 1, 2024

Subscribe now Before we move on: Due to personal travel, I’m not going to be able to get a social/events email to you on Friday, so consider this your last reminder (from me) about Beer Under Glass!

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MAY 6, 2024

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. Fatpour’s third location recently opened in Lincolnwood.

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Chilled Magazine

JUNE 7, 2024

Many attendees also belong to beer, wine, or whiskey clubs. Usable information from these events differs widely by beverage, but for an unsuspected reason. Wine and beer tastings: Tasting admins often refrain from describing flavors prior to tasting and discuss them after tasting.

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JANUARY 22, 2024

Shaw Local visited Goldfinger Brewery to find out what makes them the second favorite lager brewer in the world per Craft Beer & Brewing. Craft Brewing Business shared this year-end recap of events from Indeed Brewing. Even though the headline reads “Is Craft Beer In Trouble?”

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

” You’d think the guys who hosted an ICBW event called South of 80 would know that. After four decades in business as a bar, Dressel’s Pub now has their own line of house-brewed beers from their own Rock & Horse Brewing. I kinda dig the two Hocus Pocus themed beers from Nostalgia Brewing.

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JULY 22, 2024

Most-clicked link in last week’s email : By far the most clicked email was the news about which three breweries would be closing their taprooms for RNC events … or just during the RNC in general. Axios enjoyed both the name and the beer itself when it cracked into Rocking Socks and Sandals from Bad Dad Brewing.

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PubClub

APRIL 16, 2024

The location is Seaside Lagoon and the event features nearly 50 acts, including Sting, ZZ Top and Sugar Ray. In just a few years – the first event was in 2019 – BeachLife Festival has grown into one of the most talked about events in the Los Angeles Beach Cities. The event’s official website is: BeachLife Festival.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

With the Line Fire contained, the hannual event – now in its 54th year – is every weekend in September thru Saturday, Nov. Big Bear Lake Oktoberfest serves the very same beer poured at Munich’s Oktoberfest. Event times are Fridays (October only) 4-11 p.m., It’s a party at the Big Bear Oktoberfest.

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