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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 26, 2012
Was "Tastes Like Cat Piss" already taken?

MillerCoors launches a new ad campaign to stand up to the craft brewing bullies.
- by Julia Thiel
- Tags: Seriously?, Food Chain, Food & Drink, craft beer, big beer, Miller Lite, ad campaign, marketing, BusinessWeek

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 10, 2012
Entries wanted for new craft beer journal

Mash Tun, a new craft beer journal, is soliciting submissions
- by Julia Thiel
- Tags: Lit & Lectures, Food & Drink, Food, Books, Mash Tun, Lumpen, beer, craft beer, craft beer journal

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Music, Music Sidebar, Sep 29, 2011
Chipotle's Cultivate Festival

Celebrating food with Paul Kahan, Meyer Hawthorne, and more.
- by Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Music Sidebar, Cultivate Festival, Chipotle, Paul Kahan, Mayer Hawthorne, Calexico, White Rabbits, Rural Alberta Advantage, Cave Singers, Paul Virant, Tony Mantuano, craft beer

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 9, 2011
One Sip: Firestone Walker Double Jack Double IPA

One of the latest west-coast breweries to enter the Chicago craft-beer market won the Golden Tut at the Night of the Living Ales with this imperial IPA.
- by Philip Montoro
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Food, Firestone Walker, Double Jack, double IPA, imperial IPA, india pale ale, craft beer, beer, Chicago Beer Society, Night of the Living Ales, Abacus, Parabola, Proprietors Reserve Series, Walker's Reserve Robust Porter, Firestone 14 Anniversary Ale, Firestone 14, Golden Tut

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 3, 2011
This Week's Food and Drink Events

Carnaval, Fat Tuesday, Sunday supper at Vie, and more.
- by Sam Worley
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Food, Hal Barnett, Barnett Vineyards, wine dinner, D.O.C. Wine Bar, Rio de Janeiro, Carnaval, Portugal, Lent, festival, Brazil, SushiSamba Rio, Bloody Mary, Smoke Daddy, Miles Sullivan, Smokin' Bloody Mary, Vie, Sunday Supper, O'Donovan's, Fat Tuesday, crawfish, Mardi Gras, St. Baldrick's Foundation, Cactus Bar & Grill, Make-a-Wish Foundation, craft beer, Blokes & Birds

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 22, 2010
One Sip: Bell’s Batch 10,000

The last beer of the Bell's Brewery Batch series nods to the shelf-clearing end-of-season homebrews of founder Larry Bell with a recipe that calls for 160 varieties of malt, grain, and hops.
- by Philip Montoro
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Food, Bell's Brewery, Batch 10000, Bell's Batch 10000, Larry Bell, Lush, Hopleaf, Twisted Spoke, beer, craft beer, insanity

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 24, 2010
This Week's Food and Drink Events

Rare beer, paella, champagne, and more.
- by Sam Worley
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Food, Goose Island, Rare Bourbon County Brand Stout, tastings, Estrella Damm, craft beer, Cafe Ba-Ba-Reeba, pinxtos, paella, Webster Wine Bar, champagne, Daniel Tucker, Farm Together Now, Amy Franceschini, sustainable agriculture, Angelic Organics Learning Center, Downtown Farstand

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 22, 2010
Why Cheap, Shitty Beer is So Cheap and Shitty in Chicago

The three-tier beer and liquor distribution system is charged with encouraging the anticompetitive practices that led from tied houses to the three-tier system in the first place.
- by Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Politics, Food & Drink, Clout City, Food, tied houses, prohibition, tied house, craft beer, microbrews, beer distribution, Illinois beer distributors, Schlitz, piss beer, deregulation, three-tier system

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 19, 2010
This Week's Food and Drink Events

Art-inspired cuisine, a pig roast, African flavors, and more.
- by Sam Worley
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Food, Seven Generations Ahead, Micro Brew Review, zero-waste, Frosting, The Get, Justice Prevails!, craft beer, microbreweries, Flavors of Africa, Sikia, Washburne Culinary Institute, Kennedy-King College, wild salmon charmoula, ground nute stew, Chicagourmets, Goose Island, pig roast, Slow Food Chicago, Jared Wentworth, Longman & Eagle, Rob Leavitt, Mado, David Carrier, Kith & Kin, Stephanie Samuels, Angel Food Bakery, Festival di Napoli Due, Spacca Napolia, pizza, Ginny Sykes, Robert Scarola

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News & Features, Our Town, Jul 24, 2008
Libations: Little Beer

There's a new brewery in town—and it's not MillerCoors.
- by Julia Thiel
- Tags: Our Town, Doug Hurst, Tracy Hurst, Metropolitan Brewing, Mark Hirschler, Siebel Institute of Brewing Technology, beer, lager, craft beer, AleFest Chicago

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News & Features, Our Town, Aug 23, 2007
Libations: A Chicago Beer, Brewed Right Here in Wisconsin

It looks local and talks local, but Half Acre Lager isn't quite local—yet.
- by Martha Bayne
- Tags: Our Town, Gabriel Magliaro, Half Acre Lager, Half Acre Beer, Wisconsin, beer, craft beer

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Beer-focused restaurant in Trib Tower pays lip service to local and sustainable.

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Any excuse to drink-slash-talk about a really great show

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MillerCoors launches a new ad campaign to stand up to the craft brewing bullies.

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Celebrating food with Paul Kahan, Meyer Hawthorne, and more.

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One of the latest west-coast breweries to enter the Chicago craft-beer market won the Golden Tut at the Night of the Living Ales with this imperial IPA.

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Carnaval, Fat Tuesday, Sunday supper at Vie, and more.

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The last beer of the Bell's Brewery Batch series nods to the shelf-clearing end-of-season homebrews of founder Larry Bell with a recipe that calls for 160 varieties of malt, grain, and hops.

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Rare beer, paella, champagne, and more.

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The three-tier beer and liquor distribution system is charged with encouraging the anticompetitive practices that led from tied houses to the three-tier system in the first place.

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Art-inspired cuisine, a pig roast, African flavors, and more.

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There's a new brewery in town—and it's not MillerCoors.

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It looks local and talks local, but Half Acre Lager isn't quite local—yet.