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west coast pilsners

Episode 595 – West Coast Pilsners

Newly adopted as its own category for this year’s GABF competition, the West Coast Pilsner has the hoppy influence of its namesake locale while also retaining much of what makes German Pilsners so repeatedly drinkable. We gather five locally-made examples...

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Episode 591 – MoBAB 5: Barrels Alive!

It’s been over a month since we last drank barrel-aged beers, so to reward our tremendous restraint we’re throwing another MoBAB: a show that features more barrel-aged beers! In an unofficial “halfway to FoBAB” show, we sample four pretty distinctive...

craig's most memorable beers 2024

Craig’s 30 Most Memorable Beers of 2024

At the beginning of last year’s listicle, I warned about breweries starting to close. We lost some ones close to us in 2023, but that paled in comparison to 2024. It seemed like every week another brewery announced its closure....

fobab fantasy draft

ABV Chicago’s Fantasy FoBAB League: 2024 Draft Results

With the Festival of Wood and Barrel-aged Beers returning this weekend for the 22nd time and the awards set for Saturday afternoon (which you can stream from the FoBAB website at 2PM), we will be in attendance with our scoresheets in hand to see...