Lagunitas to tap special beer at 4:20 p.m. … on 4/20
Everything you need to know about Lagunitas, the California brewery that recently announced it will build a massive Chicago plant that should be in action by the end of 2013,...
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Greg Hall’s Virtue cider arrives
Greg Hall is nothing if not a savvy businessman and even savvier tastemaker. In 23 years at Goose Island, the beer company his father founded, Hall's commitment to barrel aging...
Greg Hall’s Virtue cider arrives
Greg Hall is nothing if not a savvy businessman and even savvier tastemaker. In 23 years at Goose Island, the beer company his father founded, Hall's commitment to barrel aging...
Lagunitas to open brewery in Chicago
Tony Magee, founder and owner of Lagunitas Brewing, one of the nation's fastest-growing craft breweries, released a photo on Twitter on Feb. 24 that showed a brown-haired woman in a...
Iowa to open its barns for summer tour
Nothing says "Midwest" quite like barns. Or Iowa. Put them together, and you are on the front lines of the Midwest. With that in mind, the Iowa Barn Foundation has...
Why Lagunitas is opening a Chicago brewery … and what it will mean for beer drinkers
On Feb. 24, Tony Magee, the founder and owner of quickly-growing Lagunitas Brewing, sent a photo to the world via Twitter that showed a brown-haired woman in a massive hangar-like...
Clearly, white whiskey is changing for the better
When white whiskeys first turned up on liquor stores shelves and cocktail menus a few years ago, they seemed, at best, playful alternatives to vodka and the familiar barrel-aged brown...
Celebrating vinyl for Record Store Day
When visiting my neighborhood record store in recent years, I've breezed past the front of the shop — and most of the compact disc-browsing shoppers — to get where I...
Celebrating vinyl for Record Store Day
When visiting my neighborhood record store in recent years, I've breezed past the front of the shop — and most of the compact disc-browsing shoppers — to get where I...
Beer of the month
What it is: Why, it's a Baltic porter, of course. Brews from this Santa Cruz, Calif., brewery have been available in Illinois since early February, and none of them will...