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flagship hazy round 1

Episode 476 – Hazy Flagship IPA Blind Battle Royale: Round 1

In this first round of what will become an ongoing arbitrary competition, we conduct a blind tasting of five Chicagoland breweries’ go-to, year-round, flagship hazy IPAs to determine our favorites – and to move the top beer(s) onto the championship...

Schwarzs Unseen

Episode 470 – Schwarzs Unseen

More breweries are embracing malt-forward easy-drinking options as an essential part of a seasonal lineup, and the Schwarzbier may be one of the styles seeing the most taplists these days. For this show, we put five locally-made Schwarzbiers through a...

monthly sampler january 2023

ABV Chicago Monthly Sampler: January 2023

Each month, we like to highlight twelve drinks we found personally interesting, delicious, or exciting from (mostly) local sources with the hopes of passing on our recommendations to those that are interested in reading arbitrary reviews. Some of these were...

half acre waybird

WayBird | Half Acre

I honestly can’t remember the last time I got hazy drunk. I would guess around 2017, as that’s when hazy beers really started blowing up in my mind. Over the years, the style has finally settled into something definitive –...