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doppelbocks

Episode 581 – Doppelbocks

Whether you’re preparing for a fast or a feast, Doppelbocks are the German-born strong lagers you need if “liquid bread” is what you seek. We explore this style with one German version and four from Chicagoland to fine tune our...

local historical

Episode 579 – Local & Historical

We get unreasonably excited when local breweries make historical and international styles that are infrequently brewed, so we jumped at the opportunity to bring five examples together. These suburban Chicago beers serve as tributes to centuries of brewing across three...

Ryan’s Top 40 Beers of 2024

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...

late summer beer guide

ABV Chicago’s Late Summer Beer Guide

We may be on the other half of it, but there’s still plenty of summer left – and you have a lot more beers to drink.  Summers don’t have to be all about mass-produced hard seltzers and macro lagers. If...