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Music, Music Feature Jun 24, 2019
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Metropolitan Brewing teams up with Pelican for the biere de garde Cold Hope

Beer and Metal returns to review a long-gestating collaboration by two beloved Chicago institutions.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Music Feature, Pelican, Metropolitan Brewing, Beer and Metal, biere de garde, Nighttime Stories, Cold Hope, Trevor de Brauw, Trevor Shelley de Brauw, Logan Lippincott, Bryan Herweg, Larry Herweg, Dallas Thomas, the Creeper, Immutable Dusk, Three Floyds, Doug Hurst, Heliostat, Generator, Afterburner, What We All Come to Need, Forever Becoming, Sam Riggins, Cosmic Eye Brewing, Peter Anderson, Electrical Audio, Sanford Parker, Jody Minnoch, Augustiner, Hopleaf, Big Star, Laurent Lebec, Metro, GMan Tavern, Laurent Schroeder-Lebec, Kuma's, Map Room, Links Taproom, Bangers & Lace, Logan Arcade, Monk's Pub, Twisted Spoke, Maria's, Sleeping Village, Video

Arts & Culture, Comics Apr 17, 2018
A comics legend teams up with Three Floyds to brew some beer-fueled superhero mayhem

With the brewery collaboration and the ongoing series Moonshine, Brian Azzarello has made himself the official Alpha King of booze comics.
- By Mark Peters
- Tags: Comics, Brian Azzarello, Three Floyds, Alpha King, Image Comics, Hopleaf, Nick Floyd, Simon Bisley, Barnaby Struve, Michael Roper, 100 Bullets, Hulk, Wonder Woman, Space Station Middle Finger, pale ale, Moonshine, Eduardo Risso, Lee Bermejo, Batman: Damned, DC Comics, beer, microbre

Arts & Culture, Summer Guide May 31, 2017
Passenger rail in and around Chicago is becoming more bike friendly

Policy changes at Amtrak and the South Shore Line are making it more possible to pedal to neighboring states and take the train back.
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Summer Guide, Amtrak, South Shore Line, Indiana Dunes, Milwaukee, bike trip, Indiana, Three Floyds, Metra Electric, South Bend, Hammond, cycling, transportation, rail, trail

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Mar 9, 2017
The ultimate guide to Chicago brewery tours

The best tours for beer geeks who're also cat lovers, home brewers with a dream, gluten-intolerant cyclists, experts who think they've seen it all, and more
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, brewery tour, craft beer, three floyds, Three Floyds Brewing Company, Empirical Brewery, Greenstar Brewing, Off Color Brewing, Lake Effect Brewing Company, Hopewell Brewing Company, Sketchbook Brewing Co., Dovetail Brewery, Haymarket Pub & Brewery, Half Acre Beer Company, Argus Brewery, 5 Rabbit Cerveceria, Lagunitas Brewing Company, Two Brothers, Moody Tongue, Temperance Beer Company, On Tour Brewing Company, Revolution Brewing, Begyle Brewing Company, Goose Island Beer Company, Metropolitan, Baderbräu, Cruz Blanca Cerveceria, Metropolitan Brewery, Begyle Brewery, Revolution Brewing Tap Room, Goose Island Beer Co, On Your Brewing Company, Cruz Blanca Cervercería, Lagunitas Tap Room, The Tasting Room at Moody Tongue, Two Brothers Brewing Company, Three Floyds Brewpub

Blogs, Bleader Nov 1, 2016
Report: Chicago police are shooting fewer civilians since the Laquan McDonald video release, and other news

Also, a local start-up wants to help Americans make informed decisions on their ballots before they vote.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Laquan McDonald, Chicago Police Department, police brutality, Election 2016, University of Chicago, gun violence, Facebook Live, Gold Coast, Great Chicago Fire, architecture, Three Floyds, Minneapolis, Surly Brewing Co.

Blogs, Bleader May 18, 2016
Dark Lord Day pays homage to Blade Runner on the gig poster of the week

This week's gig poster was designed by local artist Dan Grzeca of Ground Up Press.
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Gig Posters, Music, Arts, Visual Art, gig poster, gig posters, gig poster of the week, Dan Grzeca, Ground Up Press, Dark Lord Day, Three Floyds, Dark Lord Day with Skeletonwitch, Eyehategod, Municipal Waste, Plague Bringer, Barrier, Lord Mantis, beer, heavy metal

Blogs, Bleader May 14, 2015
The best Chicago Craft Beer Week 2015 events

Check out the best Chicago Craft Beer Week events.
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Booze, Food & Drink, Chicago Craft Beer Week, Garfield Park Conservatory, Metropolitan, Off Color Brewing, Fischman Liquors and Tavern, Avery Brewing, Drinking & Writing Brewery, Haymarket, Goose Island, Aquanut, Arcade, Empirical, Pollyanna, Sketchbook, Jerry's, Virtue Cider, Perennial Artisan Ales, Revolution Brewing, Off Color Brewing, Pipeworks, Firestone Walker, 5 Rabbit, Moody Tongue, Three Floyds, Surly, Solemn Oath, Gigantic Brewing

Blogs, Bleader Dec 18, 2014
Christmas beer tasting: Local edition

An all-local roundup of Christmas ales, plus one entry from Akron, Ohio
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Booze, Food & Drink, Christmas beer, winter beer, Christmas ale, Hoppin' Frog, Frosted Frog Christmas Ale, Two Brothers, Peppermint Bark Porter, Spiteful, Jingle Balls, Three Floyds, Alpha Klaus, Lake Effect, Kiwi Snow, Ten Ninety, Milk & Cookies, Pipeworks, Santa vs. Unicorn, Slapshot, Daddy's Gonna Kill Ralphie

Blogs, Bleader Jul 16, 2014
John Laffler: 'Genuineness will be the next crisis in craft brewing'

John Laffler of Off Color Brewing offers his assessment of Chicago's beer scene.
- By Michael Gebert
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, John Laffler, Off Color Brewing, Kottbusser, Randy Mosher, Nick Floyd, Three Floyds, Goose Island, Revolution Brewing

Blogs, Bleader Jun 9, 2014
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Northdown builds another ludicrous tap list for this Friday's Lions, Tigers and Beers benefit

Highlights include the first Illinois appearance of Firestone Walker's Helldorado barleywine and a one-off apricot sour from Side Project called La Fosse.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Northdown, Northdown Cafe and Taproom, Lions Tigers and Beers, Wildcat Sanctuary, Kate Gallagher, Tom Lee, Kristin Miaso, Tim Biedron, La Fosse, Side Project, Cory King, Firestone Walker, Helldorado, barleywine, sour, apricot, Boneyard, Notorious, triple IPA, Mikkeller, Three Floyds, Surly, Pivo Pils, Bitter Brewer, Yum Yum, George!, Rob Syers, Gumballhead, Left Handed Wave, Phineas X. Jones, Cantillon, Perennial, Off Color, Lost Abbey, Penrose, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 15, 2014
Reader's Agenda Thu 5/15: Craft Beer Week, farmers' markets, and the HoZac Blackout

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, May 15
- By Lisa Schulz
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Craft Beer Week, Little Goat, Emporium, Three Floyds, Owen & Engine, Pipeworks, Farmers Market, Daley Plaza, HoZac Blackout Fest, Empty Bottle, punk, garage, rock'n'roll, Boys and the Dictators NYC, Hein Coetzee, Brian Shanley, Rubin, Times New Viking, Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, Counter Intuits, Nones, Toupee

Blogs, Bleader Apr 30, 2014
Gig poster of the week: The Dark Lord of Three Floyds welcomes you

This week's gig poster was designed by and screen-printed by local artist Dan Grzeca.
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: Gig Posters, Arts, Music, Visual Art, gig posters, gig poster of the week, Dan Grzeca, Dark Lord Day, Three Floyds

Blogs, Bleader Apr 28, 2014
Dark Lord Day 2014: Three Floyds tweaks the festival's new model for speed

More than you could conceivably want to read about Three Floyds' 2014 Dark Lord Day—but there are lots of pictures too!
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Dark Lord Russian Imperial Stout, Dark Lord Day, Three Floyds, Munster, Boom Over Pow, Yum Yum, Deesko, Ham on Rye, Corrections House, Vulgaari, High on Fire, Eyehategod, Brain Tentacles, Baller Stout, Bruce Lamont, Dave Witte, Sanford Parker, Scott Kelly, Mike IX Williams, Ed Knigge, Bloodyminded, Russian River, Supplication, Bruery, Windowsill, Perennial, Proprietor's, Heady Topper, Black Note, Chocolate Rain, Rue D'Floyd, Kuhnhenn, 21st Amendment, Local Option, New Belgium, DryHop, Kuma's, NBB Love, Lost City Zero

Blogs, Bleader Apr 21, 2014
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What's worth a gold medal at the World Beer Cup? Try Piece's APA the Weight.

As long as Piece has the Weight on tap, a world-class American pale is never further away than Wicker Park.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Piece, Piece Brewery and Pizzeria, Jonathan Cutler, World Beer Cup, Great American Beer Festival, gold, bronze, silver, the Weight, American-style pale ale, APA, Marketing Ploy, Three Floyds, Goose Island, Levon Helm, the Band, Isis, Demilich, When the Sun Drank the Weight of Water, Nespithe, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 16, 2014
Reader's Agenda Wed 4/16: Riff Raff, the Nexus Project, and Anna Blessing

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, April 16
- By Lisa Schulz
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Riff Raff, Chief Keef, Concord Music Hall, Neon iCon, The Nexus Project, Chicago Artists Coalition, Michel Rodriguez Cintra, Benjamin Holliday Wardell, Anna Blessing, Locally Brewed: Portraits of Craft Breweries From America's Heartland, Piece, Two Brothers, Three Floyds, Metropolitan

Blogs, Bleader Mar 17, 2014
Lone Wolf, your local source for sgroppino and Three Floyds beer

A West Loop bar offers a pleasant place to wait for a table.
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Lone Wolf, West Loop, bar, Three Floyds, sgroppino, Italian cocktails, digestifs, amaro Stephen Cole, Pleasant House Bakery

Blogs, Bleader Mar 3, 2014
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Killer casks at the Day of the Living Ales

If you think "cask beer" means "flat, warm, and funny tasting," what you've had is some seriously fucked-up cask beer—and this is the festival to prove it to you.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Chicago Beer Society, Day of the Living Ales, Night of the Living Ales, real ale, cask, firkin, Off Color Brewing, Half Acre, Tighthead, Goose Island, Pineapple Brettanomite, Violets, Jasminesome, Boxcar Porter with coffee, Steve Hamburg, the Hammer the Bullet and the Vise, Misfits, Infernal Majesty, Night of the Living Dead, Metropolitan, Cherry Generator, Rock Bottom, Nifty Galifty, Forbidden Root, Allons-y, Solemn Oath, Less Than Three With Tea, Three Floyds, Space Station Middle Finger, Red Skull, Revolution Brewing, Saugatuck, Mandarina, Neapolitan, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 20, 2014
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Meet the Chicago chefs who just got short-listed for the Beard Awards

This year's James Beard Awards short list gets Chicago pretty well.
- By Michael Gebert
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, James Beard Foundation Awards, Phillip Foss, El Ideas, Paul Fehribach, Big Jones, Jason Vincent, Nightwood, Iliana Regan, Elizabeth, Abraham Conlon, Adrienne Lo, Fat Rice, Three Floyds, Nico Osteria, Brindille, Paul Kahan, Carrie Nahabedian, Spiaggia, Sarah Grueneberg, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 13, 2014
Happy Crab Rangoon Day, and other upcoming holidays

You're behind for Valentine's Day, but there are still events to save your butt.
- By Michael Gebert
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Three Dots and a Dash, Dusek's Board & Beer, Longman & Eagle, Katharine Anne Confections, Graham Elliot Bistro, The Publican, Three Floyds, Sunday Dinner Club, Half Acre, Red Meat Market, The Chop Shop, Fish Bar, Bites Asian Tapas, Twisted Spoke

Blogs, Bleader Dec 30, 2013
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Beer and Metal's year in review

This year's ten most read Beer and Metal columns include two of the Reader's top five blog posts of 2013.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Year in Review, Redd's Apple Ale, Goose Island, Bourbon County Brand Stout, Gillian, Cthulhu, DryHop, Off Color, Mischief, 18th Street Brewery, Forbidden Root, FOBAB, Festival of Wood and Barrel Aged Beer, Cerveza de los Muertos, Super Brew 15, Three Floyds, Pelican, Immutable Dusk, Dark Lord Day, Final Countdown, Day of Reckoning, Faustcoven, The March of Cloven Hooves, Pentagram, Victor Griffin, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 18, 2013
The Festival of Wood and Barrel Aged Beer: Still completely ridiculous, still definitely great

The 214 entries at this year's FOBAB included beers aged in gin and Tabasco barrels, in what I'm pretty sure was a first for the festival.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, FOBAB, Festival of Wood and Barrel Aged Beer, ICBG, Illinois Craft Brewers Guild, Off Color, John Laffler, Jeremy Danner, Cory King, Tom Korder, Side Project, Fuzzy, Perennial, Lost Abbey, Sun King, Three Floyds, Pipeworks, New Belgium, Dark Horse, Revolution Brewing, Flat 12, Firestone Walker, Deschutes, Lost Abbey, Allagash, Goose Island, Pete Crowley, Bridgeport Art Center, Skyline Loft

Blogs, Bleader Nov 11, 2013
Three Floyds and Pelican team up again, this time for the black IPA Immutable Dusk

Pelican celebrate the release of Forever Becoming by tapping a new Three Floyds collaboration at their Bottom Lounge show on Wednesday.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Pelican, Immutable Dusk, Forever Becoming, Bottom Lounge, Three Floyds, black IPA, Ryan Parkes, Nick Floyd, Trevor de Brauw, Southern Lord, the Creeper, What We All Come to Need, Australasia, Dallas Thomas, Laurent Schroeder-Lebec, Larry Herweg, Bryan Herweg, Mike Wohlberg, Phill Niblock, Bongripper, Enabler

Blogs, Bleader Jun 20, 2013
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12 O'Clock Track: "Casse Tete" by Kings Destroy, who play a free War Crime Recordings showcase tonight

Bruce Lamont and Sanford Parker have started a record label, and tonight at Bottom Lounge they're hosting New York band Kings Destroy, whose new album they released in May.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Kings Destroy, Casse Tete, A Time of Hunting, War Crime Recordings, Bruce Lamont, Sanford Parker, Three Floyds, Bottom Lounge, Corrections House, Bloodiest, the Swan King, Audio

Best of Chicago, Food & Drink Jun 19, 2013
Critics' Picks
Best Place to Taste Impossible-to-Find Beer

The Beer Temple
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Food & Drink, Beer Temple, Christopher Quinn, Margaret Quinn, Westvleteren XII, Dark Lord Russian Imperial Stout, Utopia, Bells Batch 9,000 and 10,000, Goose Island Bourbon County Bramble Rye, Three Floyds, Dark Lord, Founders KBS, Sierra Nevada Barrel-Aged Bigfoot, Bourbon County Cherry Rye, Dogfish Head 120-Minute IPA, The Beer Temple, Critics' Picks

Blogs, Bleader Apr 29, 2013
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.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Dark Lord, Dark Lord Day, Dark Lord Russian Style Imperial Stout, Three Floyds, Munster, Munster Indiana, High on Fire, Matt Pike, Des Kensel, Pig Destroyer, Scott Hull, J.R. Hayes, Bloodiest, Sweet Cobra, Lair of the Minotaur, Deesko, Michiana Power, Space Station: Middle Finger, Permanent Funeral, Toxic Revolution, Municipal Waste, Tiberian Inquisitor, Mikkeller Spontandoubleelderflower, Local Option Sweet Leaf, Greenbush Doomslayer, Pipeworks Raspberry Truffle Abduction, Founders KBS, Bourbon County Brand Stout, Pipeworks Flower Child, Surly Syx, Half Acre Quakerbridge, Elliot Dicks, Che Arthur, Steve Moore, Sanford Parker, Sei Jin Lee, Micha Ward

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