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Craft Beer Week: What’s on Tap Around the ‘Hood
In just its third year, Chicago Craft Beer Week has become such a popular event, seven days can’t contain the excitement. The “week” now runs for a whopping 11 days, May 17-27, and that still isn’t enough time to hit up the more than 200 participating venues and special events. Lincoln Square has been lumped [...]
Craft Beer Lovers Warm Up to Winter Brew
“Who drinks Miller Lite anymore?” Certainly not Derek Lindskog, one of the lucky 525 craft beer lovers who snagged a coveted ticket to the inaugural Winter Brew, held last Saturday at DANK Haus. A joint effort of the Lincoln Square Chamber of Commerce and the Square Kegs Home Brew Club, Winter Brew was, by all [...]
Winter Brew Tickets on Sale, Still Time to Enter Home Brew Contest
May Fest, German-American Fest, Apple Fest. These annual Lincoln Square traditions all started somewhere, just like the inaugural Winter Brew, scheduled for Jan. 28, 7:00 – 11:00 p.m. at Dank Haus, 4740 N. Western Ave. A partnership between the Lincoln Square Chamber of Commerce and the Square Kegs Home Brew Club, Winter Brew aims to [...]
Food & Drink: Bacon, Beer, Birds, Boo!
Baconfest at Chalkboard Get ready to pig out when Baconfest kicks off the first in a series of satellite dinners at Chalkboard, 4343 N. Lincoln, Nov. 8, 6:30 p.m. Chef Gilbert Langlois, one of the original Baconfest participants, has taken quite the pork-tastic approach to his menu: Feast on chocolate bacon lollipops, quail eggs with [...]
Ravenswood Corridor Bash Attracts A Crowd
Donna Schultz reports that about 200 Ravenswood Corridor workers gathered yesterday evening for a beer bash thrown by the Northcenter Chamber of Commerce as part of membership outreach. “When I left at 8 p.m., there were probably 50 still there!” emailed Schultz, a board member of the Northcenter Chamber. The Chamber is attempting to build [...]
TONIGHT: Party For Ravenswood Corridor Businesses
If you’re a business or employee on the Ravenswood Avenue Corridor, there’s a big beer bash especially for you tonight at the Angel Sales parking lot, 4147 N. Ravenswood Ave., 3:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Angel Sales is providing the space and food while Half Acre is providing the beer. The bash, also sponsored by the [...]
Half Acre Responds to Charges of Favoritism
Just in time for the annual Crosstown Classic, Chicagoist decided to add a little fuel to the old North Side vs. South Side feud. Reporting that pints of Half Acre’s Daisy Cutter Pale Ale were scarce to non-existent at various South Side pubs, Chicagoist seemed to imply that the Lincoln Avenue brewery showed a preference [...]
Pictures: Lincoln Ave. Manhole Collapse
Update: Half Acre’s got an account on their company blog on how it all happened and how they used their forklift to get the car out. Alert CSJ reader Tommy Henry and his son Declan were walking on the 4200 N. Lincoln block at about 9:45 this morning when they came across a collapsed manhole [...]
Tonight: Local Cask Night At Fountainhead
Chicago Craft Beer Week is nearing its end. If you haven’t had a chance to participate yet, there are still loads of great events on tap. If you’ve already done plenty of imbibing, what’s one more pint, or five? Tonight, check out Local Cask Night at Fountainhead (1970 W. Montrose), 4-7 p.m. Local brewers Half [...]
What’s on Tap for Chicago Craft Beer Week
A former co-worker of mine who had previously lived in New York used to complain that Chicagoans spend most of their time hanging out in bars, drinking beer. And what, pray tell, is wrong with that? As if we needed added incentive, along comes Chicago Craft Beer Week, May 19-27, to further encourage our tendency [...]
Square Kegs Kicks Off Beer Appreciation Season
Over 60 craft beer and home brew enthusiasts gathered at Red Lion Pub (4749 N. Rockwell Street) on March 10 to taste, talk and tantalize each other with homemade concoctions and stories of yeast experiments gone horribly awry. The Lincoln Square Chamber of Commerce sponsored what they called the kick-off to a series of events [...]
Pipeworks Brewing Company Kickstarts Business with Upcoming Tastings
If you’ve seen “The Social Network,” you know things didn’t work out so well for Facebook’s initial investor. But Beejay Oslon and Gerrit Lewis, founders of Pipeworks Brewing Company, promise not to Zuckerberg you if you take a chance on their start-up craft brewery. Donate to their Kickstarter campaign, which aims to raise $30,000 by January [...]
Center Square In The News
The Chicago Journal has info on how to appeal your tax bill since Northcenter was one of the neighborhoods with an increase in property taxes last year. Chicago tribune reports on the success of Steven Yuen; Second City alumnus and Lincoln Square resident in the AMC’s new series, The Walking Dead. Crain’s says that Pay-To-Play is affecting Chicago’s Beer Market, including [...]
Get Your Local Drink On
Economists say any form of booze sales is recession-proof. ?A number of Center Square establishments are working hard to prove the maxim. This weekend is as good a time as any to see how our local breweries are doing. Both Center Square microbreweries, Half Acre, 4257 N. Lincoln Ave.,??and Metropolitan, 5151 N. Ravenswood., are hosting [...]
