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Beer Under Glass. Beer Under Umbrellas. Beer Amongst Ferns. There are a lot of names that this event tends to go by, but any way you slice it, BUG is a great way to kick off Chicago Craft Beer Week. It’s also one of my personal favorite events of the year.
Beer Under Glass is great because there’s really nothing quite like sipping beer with a few thousand friends in the beautiful Garfield Park Conservatory. But it’s also a rare opportunity to see such a large collection of Illinois breweries under one (glass) roof. From self-distributed operations all the way up to Illinois’ largest producers, everyone’s pouring beers and celebrating the beginning of the magical celebration of our community that we call CCBW. Read More
Lakeshore Beverage will be hosting a bunch of great events during this year’s Chicago Craft Beer Week but one of the ones I’m most excited about is the first in a new series of meals we’re calling BYOBeer Dinners.
BYOBeer Dinners are custom meals designed to showcase Chicago’s unique BYOB restaurants with beverage pairings provided by Lakeshore Beverage. During the meal, Lakeshore’s beer experts will explain the reasoning behind the pairings, while the restaurant owners and family members tell the story behind the dishes we’re enjoying and the neighborhoods we’re enjoying them in.
Last year’s Goose Island Sunday Funday was one of our favorite events of Chicago Craft Beer Week. This year’s second annual installment promises to be even better.
Goose Island Beer Co. is known for its innovation. Whether it’s barrel aging, the Fulton & Wood series, or the use of experimental hops – the brewers at Goose have been known for pushing the definition of what it means to be Goose Island. The latest chapter in that evolution is Blue Line Pils.
Blue Line Pils is a Pilsner that has its roots in another Goose Island beer, a collaboration with Pitchfork Music Festival called Recommended. Pitchfork fans may remember Recommended as the beer that used water from the Schiller Park Fountain of Youth – a fountain that local legend says has magical healing properties. The goal was to make something that the brewers could enjoy all day, but that still had the complexity and balance they were used to drinking. It was such a hit amongst the Goose Island team that they began plotting their next lager beer and eventually, two years later, Blue Line Pils was born.
To learn more about the beer and its Chicago ties, I sat down with Goose Island Brewmaster Jared Jankoski at the new Fulton & Wood taproom. Read More
The beer experts at Lakeshore Beverage love beer pairing. We pair our beer with food, cheeses — even music and movies. We view beer as an experience that can be elevated when combined with other experiences. It’s this passion that led us to explore an often-overlooked pairing: beer and cigars.
We partnered with the cigar experts over at Famous Smoke to put together a few craft beer and cigar pairing suggestions.
