Tagged: Lake Effect

Episode 77 – Wild Chicago

Join Ryan and Craig, your guides to the urban beer jungle, as they experience the eccentric, offbeat, and unexpected Wild beers of Chicago! They imbibe six different ales fermented with wild yeasts and bacteria and review them for your listening...

Saisons and Sours – Our CCBW Event

Chicago has long been known to make world-class stouts and IPAs, but recently many brewers have turned their attention to some oft-neglected styles in the area – saisons and sours. Come celebrate Chicago’s up-and-coming farmhouse and funk producers.

Oak Park Microbrew Review 2014

There’s that old joke about Chicago having only two seasons – winter and construction – but there’s one that may be even lengthier than either: craft beer festival season.

Episode 25 – Chicago Fruit Basket

We’ve picked five different fruited beers from local breweries for this one, and then we went and tossed a bunch of fresh fruit in the beers just because we can. It doesn’t always work out. Craig shares a little BCBS...