Border Town Pub Brewery August 13, 2016March 23, 2017Matt Border Town is a bar that started brewing beer a while back, and just so happens to be located in my little hometown. [...]
Prairie Krafts Brewing Company July 16, 2016March 23, 2017Matt Another quick, local stop at a new brewery that opened up near our house. Prairie Krafts is actually near my office as well, [...]
Ten Ninety Brewing Co July 16, 2016March 23, 2017Matt We’ve already sampled a few beers from Ten Ninety before visiting. Now that they had this new space in Glenview, we decided we [...]
Half Day Brewing Company July 6, 2016March 23, 2017Matt Half Day Brewing occupies the space vacated by Flatlander’s a few years ago. It sat empty a while, but they’ve done some remodeling [...]
Short’s Brewing July 3, 2016March 23, 2017Matt As a close to our weekend getaway for our friends wedding – we took a slight detour to sample Short’s Brewing. We’ve had [...]
Right Brain Brewery July 1, 2016March 23, 2017Matt Before we headed into the weekend’s wedding festivities with our friends, we decided on one last stop. Another reputable Michigan brewery I’d heard [...]
Brewery Terra Firma July 1, 2016March 23, 2017Matt Brewery Terra Firma had been on my must-see list since I heard an interview they did with the Brewing Network podcast “The Session”. [...]
Brewhouse / Equipment Upgrade April 9, 2016October 25, 2017Matt Spent this weekend building a new 3-tier gravity system and picked up a new 10 gallon kettle by Anvil to serve as my [...]
Alter Brewing Company April 1, 2016March 23, 2017Matt Alter Brewing was the last stop on one of our little afternoon jaunts around Chicagoland breweries. I found most of the beer to [...]
Metal Monkey Brewing April 1, 2016March 24, 2017Matt It just so happened, Metal Monkey was getting a visit from their mascot on the day we visited. He’s an actual monkey that [...]
Blue Nose Brewery April 1, 2016March 24, 2017Matt We were not impressed with Blue Nose. The tap room is fairly large, looks nice and the brewery is easy to find just [...]