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Outside the brewpub, BrickStone APA had been available only occasionally on draft or in bottles. But now it's canned and has wider distribution.
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BrickStone brings award-winning APA to cans

June 15, 2018 at 6:58 a.m.

What it is: BrickStone Brewery asserted itself as a serious player in 2012 when it won an unlikely bronze medal for its American pale ale — simply called Brickstone APA...

Jonathan Cutler, the brewmaster at Piece, in 2005.

Piece paces local winners at Great American Beer Festival

June 16, 2018 at 3:24 p.m.

In what was an otherwise a quiet day for Chicago-area breweries at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Piece Brewery and Pizzeria was honored Saturday with its 14th medal...

When booking an ticket on Iberia, you can learn your carbon footprint for the flight, and jets leave a big footprint.

Your plane trips are damaging the environment

August 23, 2019 at 1:07 p.m.

When booking a flight on Spain's Iberia airline recently, I had the chance to do something I'd never done while planning travel. "Find out your trip's carbon footprint," read a...

Baderbrau Oktoberfest: A bit thin but perfectly fine for the tailgate. Contract brewed in Wisconsin, but Baderbrau is getting getting close to opening its South Loop brewery; looking forward to tasting their hands-on version of this beer in 2016. (5.1 percent; 12-ounce bottles) 2 steins

Drink local with Chicago-made Oktoberfest beers

March 29, 2019 at 7:42 a.m.

Any Oktoberfest celebration worth its malt will have plenty of German beer on tap. Spaten. Hacker-Pschorr. Hofbrau. Anything with a lot of hard sounds and, preferably, umlauts, will do. But...

Like Minds Brewing's space on Chicago's Near West Side will house its brewing and packaging operations, and a brewpub will be added next year.

Like Minds Brewing brings food-inspired beer to Chicago

June 15, 2018 at 9:12 a.m.

Chicago's beer boom has seen brewers leave large, well-regarded breweries to start their own operations. (Think: Off Color Brewing, Penrose Brewing and Moody Tongue Brewing.) People with little or no...

First off, if you're flying with a baby, you're going to need a lot of wipes.

Tips for parents traveling with an infant

August 23, 2019 at 1:02 p.m.

Training to climb Mount Kilimanjaro — not to mention climbing Mount Kilimanjaro — was daunting. Skydiving was scary (oh, so very scary). Backpacking through the Smokies was exhausting. But even...

Lagunitas will gain access to world markets, including Mexico, says founder Tony Magee.

Lagunitas’ Magee speaks on Heineken deal and craft beer’s ‘next phase’

June 15, 2018 at 9:29 a.m.

A couple of months ago, I was talking by text message with Tony Magee, the founder of Lagunitas Brewing, about the state of the beer industry. California's Firestone Walker had...

Greg Hall, seen at the Goose Island taproom in June when he returned to kick off the alumni beer series, is selling a stake in Virtue Cider to the company he helped build into a craft beer favorite.

Virtue Cider selling majority stake to Anheuser-Busch

June 15, 2018 at 9:45 a.m.

Four years after leaving Goose Island Beer Co. in the wake of that brewery's sale to Anheuser-Busch InBev, Greg Hall is selling a majority stake of the cider company he...

Great Lakes Brewing's Oktoberfest is among the very best of the style. Everything about this lovely copper-amber ale shouts fall.

Great Lakes Brewing perfects Oktoberfest

June 15, 2018 at 10:07 a.m.

What it is: Fall is nearly here, and you know what that means — pumpkin beer! Oops, I mean — Marzen beer! Also generally known as Oktoberfest, Marzen is a...

Goose Island jumping on Pilsner trend with Four Star

June 15, 2018 at 10:08 a.m.

When Goose Island quietly introduced Blue Line Pilsner this spring, it appeared to be with limited ambition: a beer available only on draft, in Chicago and until the end of...

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