Distributor Locations: Lakeshore Beverage (IL)
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.
Chicago Craft Beer Week is coming.
That eleven day celebration of craft beer in Chicago kicks off on May 14th and goes through May 24th. Eleven days of tap takeovers and flight nights, meet the brewers and keep the glass. Eleven days of beer dinners, tastings, lectures and even a dodgeball tournament or two. Eleven days of good beer, good food, and good people.
For three glorious days, Chicago’s Grant Park has been transformed into NFL’s Draft Town Chicago. This FREE fan festival runs from April 29th until May 2nd and features live music, cold beer, hot food, free player autographs, interactive games, photo opps, and a healthy dose of giant tvs on which to watch the 2015 NFL Draft. Here are our top five favorite things to do at Draft Town.
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.
