Distributor Locations: Lakeshore Beverage (IL)
If you’re headed to a house party or a BYOB dinner spot for New Year’s Eve, you’ll need to pick up some booze to ring in 2016. We have a few champagne alternatives for you to consider to make your night a memorable one. Scroll through our suggestions and use our BEER FINDER to locate these beers near you. Happy New Year!
Welcome to the next chapter of The Beer Glass Guide infographic, where we explore the sensorial benefits of glassware, as well as their historic influence in beer drinking culture.
This month we explore the goblet, also referred to as chalice. With the holiday season in full swing, an introduction to the range of wide mouth glasses is appropriate for entertaining the beer, wine and cider fans alike. Forget having to stock all types of glasses for your holiday party, we’ll explain how goblet-style wine glasses can provide the ultimate drinking experience.
Meet the brand new Best Damn Root Beer from Best Damn Brewing. Best Damn Brewing invites you to “throw back a throwback” with this tasty, easy-drinking ale that’s aged on vanilla beans during the brewing process for a full-flavored, well-balanced take on a classic taste. Read More
Are you stumped when you think about what to get your cousin John, the amateur homebrewer? Or your aunt Ellen, the new homeowner with a nice bar in the basement? What do you get your friends Jess and Ryan, who love picnics more than Yogi Bear? Or are you simply looking for gifts for the beer lover in your life? We have a solid lineup of fantastic gifts for you to pick up this holiday season, that’s sure to delight your friends and family.
Temperatures are plummeting, snow is falling and you’ve busted out the flannel. If that’s not the greatest excuse to snuggle up and get cozy with a winter beer, we don’t know what is. Fireplace-friendly flavors like coffee, chocolate, spices and caramel come into play with these must-try beers this winter. We’ve picked six beers for you to taste this winter with a flavor range from a Belgian-style ale to an imperial stout.
Check out what we’ve suggested below and use our BEER FINDER to locate these fine beverages near you.
The 13th annual Festival of Barrel Aged Beers (FoBAB) was this past weekend at the UIC Forum. This festival for strong, delicious, barrel aged beers, put on by the Illinois Craft Brewers Guild (ICBG), boasted 363 beers from 157 breweries. We had a few friends pouring beers over the weekend: 3 Sheeps Brewing Co., Against the Grain Brewery, Atlas Brewing Company, Bell’s Brewery, Brooklyn Brewery, Central Waters Brewing Company, Goose Island Beer Co, MKE Brewing Co., Moody Tongue Brewing Company, Schlafly Beer, Sweetwater Brewing Company, Tallgrass Brewing, Upland Brewing Co., Virtue Cider and Widmer Brothers Brewing.
Congratulations to our friends who won some shiny hardware at FoBAB: Bell’s Brewery Expedition Stout – Silver in Strong Porter/Stout, Goose Island Brewpub Cherry Run – Silver in Fruit Beer, MKE Brewing Gin Barrel Aged O-Gii – Gold in Specialty/Experimental, and Virtue Cider Percheron – Gold in Cider/Perry/Mead.
A big thank you to the Guild for putting on such a solid beer festival year after year, to the breweries for creating delicious beers and to the people who volunteered their time over the weekend to make this fest such a success. Cheers to next year!