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Great Beer: HALF ACRE Shrub Tundra

Do you folks like coffee? Real coffee from the hills of Colombia¹? Then prepare for the ultimate fermentation sanctification when you drink up HALF ACRE’s Shrub Tundra, a deeply satisfying

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Craft Beer, Illinois

Great Beer: Dovetail Hefeweizen

This review, in Skaggsian sonnet, as inspired by Frankie Petrarca (and John Lennon):   Sonnet 20: Here’s another place you can go, where everything flows Lest we talk about beers

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Craft Beer, Illinois

Great Beer: Revolution Rosa Hibiscus Ale

Where do we go from here? How about four point one kilometers northwest of the Mousetrap? It’s walkable and certainly bikeable, especially on a slightly humid yet gorgeous Chicago evening,

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Craft Beer, Illinois

Great Beer: Off Color Troublesome Leipzig-Style Gose

Where do we go from here? The words are coming out all weird! Where are you now, integrity, when I need you? Well, Dear Reader, perhaps I just had the

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Craft Beer, Illinois

Great Beer: Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Stout

Here’s the ninth and last barrel-aged imperial stout review for 2018. Similar to the actual malt beverage, the story behind GOOSE ISLAND Bourbon County (Brand) Stout is complex, convoluted, and

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California, Craft Beer, Illinois

Great Beers: Lagunitas Willettized and High West-ified Imperial Coffee Stouts

There may be talk about corprocratic this or that and ideas of domination or selling out… –Tony Magee, 8 May 2017 Humanoids accusing other humanoids of violating vaguely defined ethics

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Craft Beer, Illinois

Great Beer: Revolution Deth’s Tar

Oak smells good. Bourbon smells good. Fermented sugar water extracted from deeply roasted barley smells good. Certain Cannibaceae family members smell good. Combine them in judicious yet balanced measures, and—behold!—the

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