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fobab fantasy draft

ABV Chicago’s Fantasy FoBAB League: 2023 Draft Results

With the Festival of Wood and Barrel-aged Beers returning this weekend for the 21st time and the awards set for Saturday afternoon (which you can stream from the Illinois Craft Brewers Guild YouTube page at 2PM), we will be in attendance with our...

top beers 2022

Ryan’s Top 40 Beers of 2022

The criteria for the list is simple: these are the best beers that I had this year that were (mostly) released this year. I undoubtedly left off many other great beers I had this year because I’m not a very...

saison death match

Episode 440 – Saison Death Match: Chicago vs. Milwaukee

The time has finally come to pit the world’s premier saison producing cities – Chicago and Milwaukee, obviously – against one another in an arbitrary competition to determine once and for all whose farmhouses rule the I-94 corridor. We have...

radix fermentations walk in the woods

Walk in the Woods | Radix Fermentations

As I’ve repeated many times over these reviews, finding a brewery new to you rocks. Sometimes there’s some hype, but mostly you get to try the beers and they stand on their own merit. There was a little bit of...