Josh Noel

Two things are immediately striking about Goose Island's 2021 Bourbon County lineup, and neither has to do with beer. Price and packaging. Goose Island is all in on conveying its...

Cruz Blanca Brewery refuses to do things the way most other breweries do. And it does it quite well. The West Loop brewery's 2021 crop of Luchador barrel-aged beers, which...

It started, as many things do, with a text message: "If you had a friend coming to town and had to recommend one Chicago brewery to hit, what would you...

Tom Beckmann figured he'd need his best sales push to get his beer into bars and stores when launching Goldfinger Brewing last year. Instead, he can't keep up with demand....

Richard Bloomfield, Zachary Day and Gregory Williams were childhood friends home-brewing in a suburban garage and weighing whether to turn their hobby into a career, when they attended Fresh Fest...