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light lagers

Episode 539 – Blinded by the Light Lagers

After years of pushing boundaries with flavor, craft beer has come all the way back to banking on uncomplicated light lagers built for summer coolers. For this episode, we test out five local versions of lighter lagers in a blind...

local west coast dipas

Episode 527 – Local West Coast DIPAs

A decade-and-a-half ago, West Coast DIPAs were changing the craft beer curious into full-on obsessives, and breweries were in an IBU arms race to melt faces with hop bitterness. Recently, now that some of the haze has settled, breweries are...

january 2024 monthly sampler

ABV Chicago Monthly Sampler: January 2024

At the end of each month, we like to highlight twelve drinks we found personally interesting, delicious, or exciting from (mostly) local sources with the hopes of passing on our recommendations to those that are interested in reading arbitrary reviews....

10 years

Episode 520 – 10 Beers for 10 Years

Ever since January 22nd of 2014, the ABV Chicago podcast has released a new episode every single week – and nobody could be more stunned about this fact than us. To commemorate a decade of arbitrary beer reviews, brewer interviews,...