Beermiscuous Highwood
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Lager Beer Cafe in Highwood, north of Chicago. Zig authored, unless otherwise credited.
We have only a couple pours of Tennent's left on side pull. The milktube has this pleasant toasted/nutty finish but that isn't for everybody. Also, it seems the Scots have found this video on TT.
Zeman's was a small brewery in Lake County, open from 1942-1964. This ad is from Draugas, a Lithuanian paper. Published 1950-12-09, No. 285, Vol XXXIV, pg 2.
Half Acre Lager Town Octoberfest has been activated at the distributor. (though no inventory added, yet)
Hop Butcher For the World's online store website is shopbutcher.com and these are the things that give me joy.
i ordered "one case of Heineken" from my distributor on todays order. I did not specify what format. like any big lager, there'd be a bazillion options; there's 15 sizes on their website. What size and format do you think it will be?
Friday Newsletter! We have 380 subscribers. Share this with a beer lover. I wrote +2100 words on our three new drafts this week.
Gold Medal winning lager on Swing Lever
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By my estimation, Hopewell Pocha is the first Chicagoland lager marketed as a Korean style (or Japanese lager) that doesn't use rice. All malt!
Keith Lemcke (recently & formerly of Siebel) joined the guild listserv and started emailing a couple times a week and everything is always delightful. Here's a paper regarding caution in "Serving NA beer on draught" jib.cibd.org.uk/index.php/ji... jib.cibd.org.uk/index.php/ji...
The microbiological quality of draught no- and low-alcohol beers | Journal of the Institute of Brewing
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"can we recycle this Philsner Raquel and Augushtin Buttmuncher cardboard on top of da fridge?
we have weekly cafe notes that help me plan out the week: items/events/curation. There's a little numbers blurb with on how many package items sold in a week. Last week was a perfect 21.125 cases so I'm going to start looking up the vulgar factions and insert those for my own entertainment. 21⅛
Newsletter, discussing fresh cask with the original cascade, milktube madness, and our triple point pick of the week! ~1000 words
🍀 Fresh Cask Stout Tomorrow 🍀
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The distro has 53 kegs of GREEN Lite at the top of this week and I am generally interested in how and who's dosing those kegs. Distro? dose a little vial from the gas port on a coupler?
It’s with excitement that we announce Maplewood Brewery & Distillery and Half Acre Beer Co will join together to create a premier Chicago beverage company. We combine as individually strong, complementary businesses that share similar visions for the future of our industry and city.
i've set a mini goal to add more of the instructional Lukr content and specialty faucets to the company youtube, and hosted on the website. I dug this one from Aug 2023 on assembling the Lukr Nostalgie side pull model. Need to cut together the Baroko version. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqM0...
Assembling the Lukr Nostalgie side pull faucet
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Pulaski Day! I think there's an unsung amount of Polish Light Lagers made by Chicagoland breweries. One Trick Pony Busia Rose Maplewood Pulaski & Cashmere Pulaski Marz Chicagoland Hopewell Zimne Rev+Moors Moorvolution Phase Three Polish Pils Goldfinger Polish Pils (a series) Argus Paschke
"A current pint-bottle of Iron City, accompanied by a cat"
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Michael asks: "What is the highest ABV you've had on draft?" Dive into the spreadsheet. We'll search [/BA ] which gives us 45 barrel aged offerings across 1874 kegs kicked (2.4%). I'm assuming it has to be one of those since ABV isn't tracked. Then we'll look em up manually. Top 3 in replies:
Hot pokin beers for five years. It's an August Schells thing, and why it's today at 4pm and not in Fall. Bock! Doppelbock! #bierstacheln #beerpoking
Whiner youtube channel describing their brewhouse and equipment which is being put on auction soon (ends Mar 4). www.youtube.com/@Whinerbeerb...
We'd have three breweries on draft that have closed. Schneeeule Kennedy / Berliner Weiss Miskatonic West Coast Wizard / IPA And here, Alarmist Le Jus on Lukr side pull.
Human Robot, a brewery in Philadelphia and inventor of the Milktube, has shown a Japanese-style Sharp Pour. Extra breakout on the first step, but it's incredibly cool to see these breweries break out this service. I looked at them to learn the Lukr side pull. www.instagram.com/reel/DUlN4Vz...
Tonight for #EatDrinkHighwood we have Czech Service by way of our own Bohemian Switzerland. Our two Lake Zurich breweries Roaring Table providing Pale Lager and Phase Three with a nice Dark Lager. Phil with a nice little video cap here. Our extra racks of Praha in the back left!
We're in our chamber's Restaurant Week: Eat. Drink. Highwood. Each day is a special beer service. Wed broke out the ice chilled beer lines for 1960s era Japanese beer service and the standing bar.
15.5 gal = ~293.37 200 ml stanges at 0% waste. Do I really think we're going to kick that keg 5-9p? 73.34 glasses per hour? 1.22 glasses per minute?
Goose Island's Salt Shed Pub added a side pull faucet around Feb 12, 2025 (Feb 7?). Appears to be the Pilsner Urquell branded one from taps commissioned during the SAB Miller ownership. I've never been familiar if Lukr actually manufactured this version. www.instagram.com/p/DF-2ejXP3yl/
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