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gabf 2024 illinois pour list

GABF 2024: Illinois Pour List Preview

The Great American Beer Festival (GABF) is back again and with it the Illinois Pour List! Illinois will have 10 breweries pouring this year, including one that’s pouring there for the first time (Sketchbook). While the number of Illinois breweries...

gabf 2024 can't miss breweries

GABF 2024: 50 Can’t Miss Breweries at the Fest

As the 42nd iteration of the Great American Beer Festival gets underway in the second week of October, there’s no possible way to sample something from all 500-plus breweries, cidermakers, and beverage producers at the fest. With this year being...

rice lagers

Episode 554 – Rice Lagers

Using rice as a fermentable in an adjunct lager has been common in Japanese brewing for a long time, and recently more American craft brewers have made their own versions with an emphasis on the remarkably dry finish of the...

late summer beer guide

ABV Chicago’s Late Summer Beer Guide

We may be on the other half of it, but there’s still plenty of summer left – and you have a lot more beers to drink.  Summers don’t have to be all about mass-produced hard seltzers and macro lagers. If...