Inside the Barrel House: Goose Island’s 2026 Bourbon County Stout Preview
An experience that offered something considerably more revealing than a first taste of this year’s releases.
America’s Fastest-Growing Brewery Is From Chicagoland. Go Brewing’s Latest Move Is Cold Standard.
The fastest-growing brewery in these United States is not making alcoholic beer at all. Naperville’s Go Brewing has quietly become one of the most compelling success stories in American craft beer. According to the Brewers Association’s 2025 rankings, Go Brewing claimed the top spot among the nation’s fastest-growing breweries producing …
Goose Island Adds 18.7% Triple Barrel Stout to Black Friday’s 2026 Bourbon County Lineup
Black Friday just got considerably bigger. There is one catch: you’re going to Chicago for this one.
Herb Light Presents: The Beer Pong Classic at Sluggers
Exploring the wonderfully ridiculous world of alternate history through retro cans, jingles, and vintage beer commercials with Herb Light. This is the most fun we’ve had in Wrigleyville in quite a while. Herb Light, a new Chicago brand that’s somehow “back for the first time,” is built around good times …
Phase Three Brewing Announces Chicago Location
By our measure, the five best breweries in the suburbs are Three Floyds, Mikerphone, Roaring Table, Goldfinger and Phase Three. Only one of those crews hosts an annual multi-day Barrel-Aged Father’s Day celebration across its locations. Or a New Years Day Cellar Raid Brunch. Not to mention Happy Hour Chicago Fireboat Cruise, …
Seven Barrels, Six Beers: Goose Island’s 2026 Bourbon County Lineup Celebrates the Ingredient That Forever Changed Beer
Goose Island’s newest Bourbon County collection reminds us that the most important ingredient was never the coffee, fruit or vanilla—it was always the oak. Instead of merely asking what flavors can be added to Bourbon County, the six-beer lineup asks a different question: What happens when the barrel becomes the …
Daisy Crown Blooms at Half Acre’s Balmoral Beer Garden
The Beer Garden at Balmoral is top tier. Following the Sierra Nevada-focused edition, Daisies In Bloom returned with Allagash Brewing Company serving as featured guest and the collaborative Daisy Crown taking center stage. Built on the same Simcoe and Amarillo backbone as the original Daisy Cutter, Daisy Crown takes a …
The Plant That Grew a Brewery
How Whiner Beer and its neighbors turned a forgotten building into a living ecosystem of flavor. The gutted corridors of Chicago’s old meat-packing district, where the roar of trucks and the hiss of steam once filled the air, a new kind of craft is quietly taking hold: at Whiner Beer …