- Blogs, Bleader, May 20, 2013
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Beer and Metal does Chicago Craft Beer Week this Thursday
Reader music editor Philip Montoro and Binny's beer manager Adam Vavrick pair beers and songs on Thursday evening.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 13, 2013
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Ballast Point beers—including Yellowtail, Big Eye, and Sculpin—arrive in Chicago
A three-way Ballast Point APA/IPA shootout flops when "Yellowtail Pale Ale" turns out to be a Kölsch, but excellent beer is nonetheless had.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 6, 2013
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Founders Doom: An imperial IPA gets even heavier
The pleasures of doom—not just Founders' barrel-aged imperial IPA but also the heaviest metal in the universe.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 29, 2013
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Dark Lord Day spreads out and levels up for 2013
In which our correspondent attends the annual festival of beer and metal that revolves around Three Floyds' notorious Russian imperial stout.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 22, 2013
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Norway's Kvelertak and Local Option's Voku Hila: Metal makes beer taste better
Local Option tapped its Voku Hila maibock at Sunday's Kvelertak show, and the combination was one of few things that could've improved either.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 15, 2013
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Half Acre finally bottles Chocolate Camaro
For the first time Half Acre's smooth chocolate stout can come home with you in a streamlined bomber.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 8, 2013
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Taste the Waste: Three Floyds and Municipal Waste's Toxic Revolution Stout
Thrash metal may go hand-in-hand with shit beer, but the stout that Municipal Waste brewed with Three Floyds is world class.
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 1, 2013
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Allagash Brewing's FV 13: Four years in a foudre on the way to your face
The first foudre beer from Allagash spent an entire presidential term souring in a big honking oak cask, where magical things happened.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 25, 2013
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Pipeworks experiments on its imperial stout with Raspberry Truffle Abduction
Pipeworks Brewing combines alien abduction and raspberry truffles: two great tastes that . . . oh, never mind.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 18, 2013
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Sprecher's Citra Bomb: Not exactly a blockbuster
A Citra imperial IPA for under seven bucks a bomber? Well, yes, but the rest of the news isn't so good.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 11, 2013
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Off Color Brewing's "Mischief" pop-up bar: You will want to drink all their beer
Off Color Brewing debuts with four tasty collaborations: a pink pilsner, a smoked bock, a half bock, and a potent French-Belgian chimera.
- Blogs, Bleader, Mar 4, 2013
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Pucker up for Gueuze Tilquin
Uncorking a two-year-old bottle from the first new blender of Belgian lambics in almost 15 years
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 25, 2013
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Super Brew 15: I know what you're thinking, but don't. Just don't.
If you dare a drinking buddy to finish a bottle of Super Brew 15 Original Barley Wine Ale, you're going to lose a friend.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 18, 2013
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A TV Party in a bottle: Revolution Brewing's rye IPA
Revolution has finally bottled TV Party, a fruity rye IPA that's part of its series of beers paying homage to the Repo Man soundtrack.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 11, 2013
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Redd's Apple Ale: So is it swill or what?
Redd's Apple Ale is apparently what happens when MillerCoors realizes that Mike's Hard and Twisted Tea don't have apple versions.
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 4, 2013
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Brooklyn Brewery's Black Ops: Way better than a covert foreign coup
Brooklyn Brewery's barrel-aged imperial stout, Black Ops, does in fact exist—and the 2012 batch has been sighted in Chicago.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 28, 2013
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The first bottled beer from Gary's (maybe) first craft brewery
The Brotherhood brings to mind citrus, Chinese chrysanthemum tea . . . and Motörhead.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 21, 2013
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Kosmyk Charlie's Y2K Catastrophe Ale from Central Waters: It's a mouthful
Central Waters first brewed Kosmyk Charlie's barleywine for Y2K, but luckily they kept going.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 14, 2013
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On tap: Solemn Oath's Ravaged by Vikings
A zingy, fruity double IPA, Ravaged by Vikings, from Naperville's tap-only brewery Solemn Oath
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 7, 2013
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End of an era: Stone 12.12.12 Vertical Epic
Stone wraps up its series of yearly one-off beers with a dry, spicy Belgian-style dark ale
