Any breweries I can go to while in Chicago in a few weeks?
Not sure if there's a tour/visit or not, but I'll shamelessly plug a family friend's brewery: South Loop Brewing Company.
They've made a positive inroads with some popular places in the area, from what I understand. Here's a listing.
http://www.southloopbrewing.com/thebeer/
Any breweries I can go to while in Chicago in a few weeks?
Any breweries I can go to while in Chicago in a few weeks?
Rogue Dead Guy, get it now if you can. Damn good beer
So, a few friends and I did a "Beer Brackets" - 4 beers each in 4 'regions', where the regions were types of beer (IPA, Lager/Pilsner, Dark, and Pale Ales). You match them up on the weekends of the tourney. First weekend is a lot of beer (16 beers in 8 match-ups), which is a good problem to have
Stone Go To IPA met Rogue Dead Guy in the final...and it was a tie.
Also, for IPA fans try Founders Mosaic Promise
So, a few friends and I did a "Beer Brackets" - 4 beers each in 4 'regions', where the regions were types of beer (IPA, Lager/Pilsner, Dark, and Pale Ales). You match them up on the weekends of the tourney. First weekend is a lot of beer (16 beers in 8 match-ups), which is a good problem to have
Stone Go To IPA met Rogue Dead Guy in the final...and it was a tie.
Also, for IPA fans try Founders Mosaic Promise
The only thing that would make it more awesome would be to do it blind. I think people, myself included, tend to get tied up with who brewed the beer and will vote it possibly higher than it should have.
One person should do the match up but the tasters should do it blind.
That's how I did the first round - blind tasting. Most of the beers you could tell which was which, but it was still a good way to do it
Anyone out there own one of these: http://synek.beer/