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Repeat customer pays $9.25 a night to stay at Palmer House Hilton

August 23, 2019 at 1:58 p.m.

Plenty has changed in Chicago during the 68 years between Jean Mackie's visits to the city. What didn't change for the 88-year-old Cincinnati mother of three, grandmother of six and...

At the British pub-inspired Civil Life Brewing Co. in St. Louis, a bill is kept on a chalkboard on the bar.

A Bud and beyond: St. Louis’ craft beer scene expands its realm

August 23, 2019 at 1:57 p.m.

If Budweiser is America's king of beers, then in St. Louis, it's been the king, the queen, the godfather, the grand wizard and the tollbooth collector. With roots dating to...

Short's Brewing's Bellaire Brown has an alluring web of flavors: toffee, caramel, milk chocolate and even a wisp of coconut.
<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/dining/drink/ct-beer-of-month-food-0504-20160429-story.html" target="_blank">RELATED: Read our full review of this beer.</a>

Put Short’s Bellaire Brown at top of your brown ale list

June 11, 2018 at 11:01 p.m.

What it is: Bellaire Brown from Short's Brewing Co. is a fairly faithful-to-style brown ale, though on the 2016 beer landscape, that's unfortunately not a compliment. With America's long-running obsession...

Chapman's cider, one of the many ciders on tap at Vander Mill.

Michigan taps into blossoming trend pairing cider and food

August 23, 2019 at 1:56 p.m.

The joy and genius of what happens when apples are elevated beyond snack food sits unassumingly on the Vander Mill taproom menu, listed third among starters, just between the smoked...

After the brewery decided to change its name to Burnt City, it had to dispose of the old cans with the former name, Atlas.

Burnt City Brewing blossoms from the ashes of Atlas Brewing

June 8, 2018 at 9:11 p.m.

Atlas Brewing Co. had a problem. Actually, it had two problems. The first was increasingly common in an ever-crowded craft beer industry: a naming dispute. In 2012, a Washington, D.C.,...

Drink This: New barrel-aged gin from Chicago’s Koval Distillery

June 12, 2018 at 1:43 a.m.

Gin is a lovely cocktail ingredient, but I've never much enjoyed drinking it straight. The untempered combination of boozy heat and pine are usually too bracing for me. What I...

Spam Museum has new home in downtown Austin, Minn.

August 23, 2019 at 1:55 p.m.

The Spam Museum has opened under the bright lights of downtown. OK, so maybe the lights aren't so bright in downtown Austin, Minn., but the world's saltiest, most pork-forward museum...

"G Wagon (Mercedes). Matte green, black matte rims," BJ says.

BJ the Chicago Kid, on love and romance

May 10, 2019 at 1:26 a.m.

BJ the Chicago Kid is a little soul, a little hip-hop, a little gospel — and a lot of romantic. On his newly released major label debut record, "In My...

Not Your Father's Root Beer started with a 5.9 percent alcohol version. Now a 10.7 version will get national distribution.

Higher alcohol Not Your Father’s Root Beer to go national

April 7, 2019 at 9:56 a.m.

Not Your Father's Root Beer is going national — again. Almost a year after a 5.9 percent alcohol version of the boozy root beer invented by Wauconda's Small Town Brewery...

Chad Williams, a manager at Devils Backbone Brewing Co., fills a growler of beer in Roseland, Va., in this 2011 photo. Anheuser-Busch announced this week an agreement to acquire Devils Backbone, the leading and fastest-growing craft brewery in Virginia.

Anheuser-Busch buys Devils Backbone, its 8th craft brewery

April 7, 2019 at 9:56 a.m.

Anheuser-Busch InBev has announced plans to buy Virginia's Devils Backbone Brewing Co., the eighth craft brewery that the global beer behemoth has purchased during the past five years. (As Chicagoans...

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