As the craft beer scene continues to shrink, Half Acre Beer Co. and Maplewood Brewery & Distillery, two of Chicago’s biggest and most popular breweries, have announced that they are merging.
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An Unexpected Culinary Globetrot on Chicago's Far Northwest Side
Maggie HennessyThe neighborhood of Dunning may be unofficially known as Chicago's other Little Italy, but new businesses serving Vietnamese-inspired beer, Turkish delights, and scratch-made tamales and tacos have recently sprouted up as well.
How Dovetail Brewery Uses Engineer-like Precision to Master Neglected Beers – While Serving Them in Unique Ways
Daniel HautzingerDovetail Brewery makes styles of beer mostly ignored by other craft breweries – and serves them in unusual traditions discovered from around the world.
From Pulpit to Pint Glass: How One Former Pastor Created a North Side Brewery
Meredith FrancisBrent Raska, the founder of Burning Bush Brewery, is used to getting questions about how he went from the pastor of a small church to the head of a North Side brewery. But he has found one common thread: community.
This Mythology-Driven, Suburban Chicago Brewery is Here to Serve ‘Nerds, Creatives, and Revolutionaries’
Meredith FrancisSouth suburban Homewood, Illinois is home to Rabid Brewing, a mythology-inspired brewery that the founders say is meant to be a welcoming place for people who might not stereotypically fit into the brewery scene.
After Fire, Twisted Hippo Brewery Finds New Home at Two Beer Halls - Including an Upcoming One in the Suburbs
Daniel HautzingerTwisted Hippo Brewing lost its Albany Park brewpub in a devastating fire earlier this year, but has now found a new home in District Brew Yards, a beer hall and incubator which is opening a second location in Wheeling.
