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It wouldn’t be Chicago Craft Beer Week without an enormous dodgeball tournament, right? Right. Goose Island’s annual Battle of the Breweries Dodgeball Tournament is set for Sunday, May 21 and you can enter to win a pair of tickets right here.
Day 11 of Chicago Craft Beer Week was the final day of Chicago Craft Beer Week and I can’t imagine a more fitting end. We enjoyed an outdoor BBQ with Founders Brewing Co and, even though it rained almost the whole time, we had a ton of fun. Maybe it was the giant smoked beef ribs, or the Founders Mosaic Promise… or maybe it was just because we’d all made it through the marathon that is CCBW — but everyone was in good spirits. Read More
Day 7 of Chicago Craft Beer Week was pretty much dominated by a single theme: animals. There were animal-themed beers, animal-named breweries, and actual, real life animals.
The evening started with the Logan Square Petting Zoo, in which our friends at Scales & Tales Traveling Zoo brought some of their exotic animals to a parade of Logan Square bars. We met chinchillas, giant snakes, a hedgehog named sonic, a pig, an anteater, an owl and, as was clearly the highlight for most in the room — a sloth. We drank beers from an all animal taplist from Goose Island, 3 Sheeps, Against the Grain, Evil Twin, Uinta and Tallgrass Brewing. Read More
Day 4 of Chicago Craft Beer Week was about one thing: Goose Island Sunday Funday.
Sunday Funday is that magical time of year where Chicago beer fans gather in Goose Island’s barrel warehouse for a dodgeball tournament, music, food and, of course, an epic beer list. Read More
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
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.