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This Week's Beer News: Good "Vibes" Only.

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Owner Jeff Hoobler was elected to Highland Park’s city council last year (and is running again this year, as we noted in an email last week), and apparently the city has a restriction “that requires the denial of liquor licenses to ‘any law enforcing public official, or any member of the City Council.’”

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This Week's Beer News: Metro on a Short Fuse

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Is this an indication of a pivot away from hazy IPAs and pastry stouts? Their new barrel-aged imperial Vietnamese coffee stout sounds like it could be pretty delicious, especially alongside a crispy banh xeo and bowl of pho. Or is it just a matter of, they bought the IP at auction, so they’re gonna do something with it?

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