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Untappd Awards! Beer Events! Other Stuff!

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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.

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This Week's Craft Beer Events & Socials

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Most everyone I know already has their OOOs set for Spring Break and my world’s feeling fairly slow heading into this weekend, but I do have a barrel-aged Odd Side stout with hazelnuts and bacon in my fridge, so I should probably tend to that today, huh? Beats shoveling the driveway. Saint Errant says yes you are !

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Oktoberfest Season Is In Full Swing: This Week's Beer Events & Socials

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Jake did a lot to pivot Windmill from a milkshake IPA and pastry stout destination to a place that could (and did) make delicious lagers, saisons and other less-hyped styles while also continuing that reputation for hazies and hefty beers. The busy brewery event summer continues this week. Nice to see. Tickets are on sale now.

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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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The 10 Weirdest Beer Names of All Time

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Weve seen bourbon barrel-aging work its magic on stouts , the IPA has birthed multiple substyles , and the number of craft breweries in the U.S. Were not sure what events inspired this triple IPAs title, but we certainly have some questions. The beer industry has come a long way in the past 20 plus years.

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North Czar State: How Russian Imperial Stout Became the Sovereign Beer of Minnesota

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Through the snowless 60-degree days, however, one boreal harbinger has remained intact: the Russian imperial stout. Rich and complex, Russian imperial stouts are differentiated from other dark beers by both strength and apocrypha. Old Rasputin, from Fort Bragg, Calif.,

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This Week's Chicagoland Beer Events & Socials

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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. Half Acre’s Space IPA is back. Yes please.

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