On the outskirts of Urbana we visited Riggs Beer Company which is a relatively new brewery in central Illinois. The tap room is [...]

Kings and Convicts recently opened up near our house and we took a free Saturday afternoon to run out and try a few [...]

Our second stop in Rockford, Prairie Street Brewing was a far more interesting stop. Located in what once housed Rockford Brewing Company, a [...]

My father, a Rockford native, was visiting from out of town and wanted to visit his old stomping grounds. Which meant, finally a [...]

I was excited to see the taproom open up for Forbidden Root, as a fan of Randy Mosher who has written some great [...]

Off Color Brewing has been making excellent beer out of Chicago and I was looking forward to a tour of their facility since [...]

Border Town is a bar that started brewing beer a while back, and just so happens to be located in my little hometown. [...]

Another quick, local stop at a new brewery that opened up near our house. Prairie Krafts is actually near my office as well, [...]

We’ve already sampled a few beers from Ten Ninety before visiting. Now that they had this new space in Glenview, we decided we [...]

Alter Brewing was the last stop on one of our little afternoon jaunts around Chicagoland breweries. I found most of the beer to [...]

It just so happened, Metal Monkey was getting a visit from their mascot on the day we visited. He’s an actual monkey that [...]