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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
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
Stop us if you’ve heard this from us before but we’re really passionate about the way that beer elevates a dining experience. Which is one of the reasons we get so excited when Chicago Restaurant Week rolls around. I mean, is there anything better than 250 restaurants offering special prix fixe menus? That’s an almost uncountable number of opportunities for beer and food pairings.
To celebrate the beginning of Restaurant Week, we joined 1,500 fellow foodies at First Bites Bash, the official kick-off event produced by Choose Chicago. Hosted inside the magnificent Great Hall at Chicago Union Station, it was a night of savory and sweet tastings from over 50 of Chicago’s most celebrated chefs and restaurants… all paired with Goose Island beers. Check out this post to see what we paired with our Goose Island beers and learn more about how you can win a VIP tour of the Goose Island brewery!
If you’re anything like us, you’ve been waiting for Chicago’s Restaurant Week with bated breath. There are few things nearer and dearer to a Chicagoans heart during the winter months then a great meal. Restaurant Week, the annual 14-day culinary celebration is a chance for city-dwellers to climb out from their warm apartments and venture to one of the 250 participating restaurants to experience special prix fixe menus starting at $22 for lunch and $33 and/or $44 for dinner. Amazing.
Because we firmly believe in the power of beer to elevate a dining experience to a whole new level, the beer experts at Lakeshore Beverage have assembled a beer and food pairing guide with the help of Goose Island’s fantastic craft beer.