Tagged: beer reviews

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Grisly Reaper | Old Irving Brewing

Stout season is here. The weather agrees with the coming of this season (recent past notwithstanding), bringing with it wind chills and, at the very least, jackets. I typically say stout season starts with Revolution’s Deep Wood series and usually...

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1840 Brewing | Forgotten Not Lost

It’s always nice to feel like you discovered a brewery. Even though 1840 Brewing had been around since 2017, even though people recommended that we stop there on our Great Milwaukee trip of 2019, even though we actually didn’t discover...

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Foreign Exchange | Aliena

Foreign Exchange is Ricky Cervantes. Starting out in 2016 in his 18th floor Aurora apartment, Cervantes currently brews Foreign Exchange beers out of Church Street Brewing in Itasca, IL (but that will change at some point in the near future)....

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Metal Monkey | Cherry Balloon Head

Remember going to arcades? A few still exist. You always wanted to strike a balance between the video games and the redemption games (like skee-ball). You knew you were never going to get enough tickets to get those high value...