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Episode 582 – A Progression of Barrels

A decade ago, if a beer spent a few months in a single bourbon barrel, its release would cause fanfare amongst craft beer obsessives. These days, beers are blended from an increasing number of different barrels for extended periods of...

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ABV Chicago’s Fantasy FoBAB League: 2024 Draft Results

With the Festival of Wood and Barrel-aged Beers returning this weekend for the 22nd time and the awards set for Saturday afternoon (which you can stream from the FoBAB website at 2PM), we will be in attendance with our scoresheets in hand to see...

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Episode 562 – FoBABlin’ 6: FoBAB Time Machine

As this year’s Festival of Wood and Barrel-Aged Beers approaches, we dive deep into FoBAB topics while drinking through four barrel-aged beers from breweries featured at this year’s fest. Our jumbled attempts to look back at previous year’s memories notwithstanding,...

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GABF 2024: Illinois Pour List Preview

The Great American Beer Festival (GABF) is back again and with it the Illinois Pour List! Illinois will have 10 breweries pouring this year, including one that’s pouring there for the first time (Sketchbook). While the number of Illinois breweries...