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The highest rated beer from Illinois this year belongs to Phase Three , whose Consume S-101 Stout broke the Top 20. I’m also now very interested in checking out Dimensional Brewing Company , based right across the Mississippi in Dubuque, which edged out P3’s ranking by just a hair for their Gladius Imperial Stout.
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. That they made!
As of a few days ago, Demo Brewery reported that y’all had drank them out of six of their ten beers. The winner of Goose Island’s BCS Bracket surprised me ; I thought for sure it’d be Fourteen Stout. Between this and Hopewell’s Choom, we are in a golden age of weed-drink naming conventions. Good work.
PorchDrinking profiles Demo Brewing as they finally open to the public. 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. In addition to a glass and a poster, attendees also do get a complimentary beverage for the tour.
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! How many cans of Goose Island 312 are being held in a massive jar ?
In other “maybe it’s still happening” news, we’re still hoping for the opening of Demo Brewing in Ravenswood. The Daily Southtown covered the release of the holiday collab between Flipside Brewing and The Open Bottle , a pecan snowball cookie milk stout whose proceeds benefit Tinley Wish.
Also somewhat related to Malt Row while I’m thinking of it: No, I don’t know what’s going on with Demo Brewing , and my questioning messages have gone un-responded-to. Vinepair scoured BeerAdvocate to bring you this roundup featuring the highest-rated stout in every state.
Try an alternative such as Murphy’s Stout, Smithwick’s Irish Ale or Harp Lager. To learn more about SevenRooms, book a demo today. Something to grab attention that you can include in your event promotions or as part of catering or delivery packages as a unique proposition.
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. (Some of it is NSFW, FWIW.)
Ray Stout, executive director of the Illinois Craft Brewers Guild , chatted with us about just that. And obviously recruiting the breweries,” Stout said. Originally the plan was to have a single brewery produce a JB-affiliated beer, but Stout pitched them on opening it up to two breweries, which the campaign team went for.
It’s… The New Illinois Beer Label of the Week: My one visit to Ravenswood’s Demo Brewery a few months back reminded me of how most breweries used to feel a decade ago — small, very industrial feeling, a little thrown together.
Lite Subscribers can click here to see this week’s label - the first from Demo Brewing. February 9th is Hopleaf’s twelfth-annual Super Stout Sunday. Stout Week returns to Side Project on the 11th with “Vanilla Day” and carries through to the 16th. Lineup TBD.
If you do, you probably had as much fun at this year’s FoBAB as I did … well, plus the trips to Monochrome, is/was, Demo, Other Half, Electric Funeral and others I also squeezed. Anyone else still have a headache? It’s hard work being a beer writer, especially when all this research has to be packed into one busy weekend.
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