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Sound Craft's Rosé, which is flavored (and colored) with blackberries, pulls off a dry winelike fruitiness that might mix nicely with a shot of gin.

What’s the best hard seltzer? The worst? Is it a fad? We have answers.

August 26, 2019 at 1:32 p.m.

Hard seltzer is a sensation. A revelation. A cultural phenomenon. And one big bubbly oddity. How did a category that barely existed three years ago get this big? This fast?...

Lesley Roth, right, and Steve Marchese, co-founders of Englewood Brews in Chicago, stand in their brewery space June 11, 2019. The brewery, opening in the coming months, will be the Englewood neighborhood's first craft beer maker.

Englewood Brews is here to prove craft beer is for Black people, too

June 21, 2019 at 5:21 p.m.

Some people are surprised. Others confused. And then there's curiosity. Plenty of curiosity. "There's a lot of general curiosity about, 'What am I missing?'" said Lesley Roth, co-founder of the...

Goose Island’s 2019 Bourbon County beer lineup emerging — or is it? Some labels are probably fakes.

June 18, 2019 at 7:54 a.m.

Is it BS? Or BCS? Hard to know. And Goose Island Beer Co. isn't saying. Last year, in a bid to throw the world off the scent of its highly...

Drawn by Cats Sour is made with rum, lime juice and seasonal fruit.

Three Floyds launches distillery with the iconic brewery’s same ‘it’s not normal’ point of view

June 24, 2019 at 10:48 a.m.

The longtime slogan of Three Floyds Brewing has been, appropriately enough, "It's not normal." The new Three Floyds Distilling aims to be equally eccentric. Though modern tastes have caught up...

Although the sticker declaring the business as closed has since been removed, West Lakeview Liquors was closed down by the city on May 21 for operating without necessary licenses.

Iconic Chicago beer store West Lakeview Liquors closes in a mysterious rush. Will it reopen?

June 4, 2019 at 11:10 a.m.

Through its darkened windows, West Lakeview Liquors still looks like a world class beer store. It's a tidy shop where the latest local beer releases remain stacked in a well-assembled...

Hopewell Brewing's Cold Brew is a unique take on coffee beer — it's arguably coffee as much as it is beer and it ignores coffee's brashest edges.

Beer of the month: Hopewell’s refreshing Cold Brew is a little bit beer and a whole lot coffee

June 18, 2019 at 7:56 a.m.

The beer: Cold Brew (Hopewell Brewing, Chicago), a session coffee ale. The back story: Coffee and beer have proved to be a seamless fit, usually for the sake of adding...

Born & Raised beermaker challenges Goose Island’s right to the name, but the Chicago brewery isn’t budging

May 31, 2019 at 4:02 p.m.

When John Bryant, founder and owner of No-Li Brewhouse in Spokane, Wash., was congratulated by a friend for getting his flagship beer, Born & Raised IPA, into Wrigley Field, he...

Anheuser-Busch says that Bud Light is leading the transparency movement for beer. Yet transparency remains an unlikely claim from a company rooted in opacity during its long climb to becoming the nation's dominant beer player.

Anheuser-Busch says it’s ready for transparency. It’s not.

May 31, 2019 at 4:02 p.m.

You've seen Spuds MacKenzie. You've seen the Clydesdales. You've seen the Wazzup guys, the frogs and "Dilly Dilly." Now comes Anheuser-Busch's most audacious advertising campaign to date: transparency. Yes, good...

Friday Night Flights returns for 3rd summer of Chicago neighborhood beer fests

May 31, 2019 at 4:01 p.m.

The city's summerlong series of Friday night outdoor neighborhood beer festivals is returning for a third year. Friday Night Flights kicks off May 31 just as it did last year:...

Beer of the Month: Half Acre's Bodem is the brewery's new year-round IPA.

Beer of the month: Bodem is Half Acre’s take on a modern IPA ‘rooted in how we do things’

May 31, 2019 at 4:01 p.m.

The beer: Bodem India Pale Ale, Half Acre Beer Co., Chicago. The backstory: Half Acre's new year-round IPA is also Half Acre's first year-round IPA. Until Bodem, Half Acre rotated...

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