Dryhop Brewers and Flossmoor Station Launch "Smoking Nanners"

Join Dryhop Brewers and Flossmoor Station Brewing tonight at Dryhop (3155 N. Broadway) for the release of their collaboration "Smoking Nanners". The 5.5% Smoked Hefeweizen, is a result of Flossmoor Head Brewer Bjorn Johnson and Dryhop Owner Greg Shuff’s time together in Munich for brew school.

Together, they traveled to different regions of Germany to learn about brewing techniques. A memorable stop was in Bamberg, where smoked beers are considered a specialty of the area. Smoking Nanners was brewed in tribute to Bjorn and Greg’s antics experienced there.

DryHop Chef Pete Repak and Flossmoor Chef Eduardo Camarena also collaborated on a dish for the evening – Smoked Guajillo Chile Glazed Texas Quail on Jicama-Tortilla Salad with Roasted Pineapple Relish and Pulped Avocado.

Tapping schedule is as follows:

• 6pm – Flossmoor’s Berliner Weisse, a low alcohol wheat beer, soured with lactobacillus and fermented with a Kölsch yeast strain. (3.0%)
• 7pm – Flossmoor’s Kölsch, a clean, crisp, session beer with a soft malt and hop character. (5.2%)
• 8pm – Flossmoor’s Roggenbier, a dunkleweizen made with rye instead of wheat. (5.6%)
• 9pm – The release of Smoking Nanners, a Smoked Hefeweizen. (5.5%)

Chicago Beer Gals - September Event

Ladies, please join us for an evening at the Brew Camp Classroom. This month we'll be focused 100% on Craft Cider!

We’ll be providing a tasting of Midwest made hard ciders as well as some fall snacks.
*This event will have Gluten-free options

Special guests:
Holly Christopher and Michelle Foik from Virtue Cider
Kate Bernot, Nightlife Reporter for Redeye Chicago

Limited seats are available, advanced tickets through Brew Camp -> HERE

Have questions about the event? Want to be a future guest speaker? Feel free to email me.

Highwood's 1st Annual Craft Beer Fest

This Saturday, August 17th the North Shore will put on their first local craft beer festival in Highwood’s Everts Park from noon-5:30pm.

The festival will feature beer from over 30 breweries, including many of our Midwest local favorites. Downtown Highwood is easily accessible from Chicago, just half a block from the Highwood Metra Station. 

Breweries to include: Ale Syndicate, Allagash, Argus, Bell’s Brewery, Berghoff Beer, Boulevard Brewing Co., Capital, Cider Boys, Dogfish Head, Finch Beer, Firestone, Goose Island, Great Lakes, Half Acre, Lagunitas Brewing Company, Lake Bluff, Lake Front, Magic Hat, Metropolitan, Mickey Finn’s Brewing, New Belgium Brewing, New Holland, Oskar Blues Brewing, Potosi, Pyramid, Revolution Brewery, Rogue, Stone, Tall Grass, Two Brothers, Wild Onion Brewing.

Live music Featuring:

12:00 – 2:30 Pat Smilie Duo – Rhythm & Blues
3:00 – 5:30 - Los Perros Cubanos

Tickets:
General Admission 1:00 - 4:30pm, $40 advanced sales ($50 at the gate)

Tickets Includes: Souvenir glass, wristband, a brewer’s list card & map of event, bag of pretzels & String. You must be 21 years of age or older with a valid ID to enter the festival.

VIP 12:00 - 4:30pm, $55 advanced sales ($65 at the gate)
The VIP Experience Tickets guests will be allowed in one hour earlier than the general admission ticket holders. Take advantage of this great opportunity to taste reserve or signature beers from participating breweries and get a chance to meet the brewers & brewery representatives themselves! VIP Tickets Includes: Souvenir glass, wristband, a brewer’s list card & map of event, one bottle of water, bag of pretzels & String. You must be 21 years of age or older with a valid ID to enter the festival. Only a limited number of tickets will be sold.

TO BUY TICKETS CLICK HERE

About CraftBeerFests.com & Chicago Scene:
From Chicago's North Shore, Ted Widen launched Chicago-Scene.com in 1998 as one of the first social networking, events and entertainment sites in the country. Widen is known for his unparalleled event and production, producing such events as the Chicago Scene New Year’s Eve Party hosted at the Historic Drake Hotel. The event is attended by over 2,500 people annually since 2000. This success has sparked plans for 2013 to add The Chicago Hilton and Towers New Year’s Eve Party, with over 4,000 attendees to his portfolio. Accolades include: Chicago Scene Magazine Publication started in 2001; reaching Chicago's A-List young professional 21-39 year old market in the downtown area, The River North Craft Beer Pub Crawl this past May with 10 bars, 20 Craft Beers and over 2000 attendees, and this October he is producing the Windy City Craft Beer Festival at the Drake Hotel and many more Craft Beer events in the future.

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Please join us in celebrating Shark Week with the release of "Blood In The Water". This tart, refreshing Hibiscus Ginger Saison was brewed in collaboration by Lake Effect Brewing Company and Kim Leshinski of Hail To The Ale craft beer blog.

Shark Week is the Discovery Channel's week-long series of events promoting awareness and respect for sharks and shark conservation.www.sharkweek.com

Donations will be made to the Shark Savers conservation efforts 501c(3). For more information or to make donations please visit our donor page athttp://sharksavers.donorpages.com/Supporter/hail2theale/

Chicago Women's Health Center Fundraiser at Revolution Brewing

Join Chicago Women's Health Center's annual board fundraiser, Revolutionary Health Care, to celebrate yet another successful year of radical health care services. The event is an evening of networking, philanthropy, and local fare at Revolution Brewing. Tickets include two hours of UNLIMITED Rev Brews, appetizers, live music, fantastic raffles, and an arm wrestling contest!

Where: Revolution Brewing, 2323 N Milwaukee Ave
When: Sunday, July 28th, 5pm-7pm
Cost: Sliding Scale! Click here to purchase tickets.

Revolutionary Healthcare will include live performances by The Howl.

Raffle Prizes from various Chicagoland companies including:

- Six Flags
- North Shore Distillery
- Equinox
- Wines for Humanity
- And many more!


ABOUT CHICAGO'S WOMEN HEALTH CARE
Chicago Women's Health Center is a unique collective working together to provide affordable, compassionate, and collaborative gynecological and mental health care to women and trans people in the Chicago area. Our health care providers, counselors, and health educators share a strong commitment to the vision our founders imagined in 1975 when they formed CWHC: a world in which all people have access to comprehensive, affordable, and sensitive health care.

Our services are offered on a flexible sliding fee scale and they include: Gynecology, Counseling, Outreach & Education, Alternative Insemination and Integrative Health.

For more information please visit http://chicagowomenshealthcenter.org/

South Loop Brewing Launches Two Collaborations

This Wednesday, July 24th South Loop Brewing Company will debut their first two beers, brewed in collaboration at Lake Effect Brewing at The Weather Mark Tavern (1503 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago).
Event info

“Red skies in the morning, sailor’s warning”

“Red skies at night, sailor’s delight.”

Or so the ancient rhyme goes. It’s a mariner’s rule of thumb for forecasting the coming day’s weather and it dates back well over 2,000 years. Sailors used it to predict what kind of day they were in for on the water. Lake Effect Brewing Company and South Loop Brewing Company used it as inspiration behind their latest: a split-mash double beer collaboration.

“Sailor’s Warning” is an 8.3% ABV Imperial Ruby Red Ale. It’s full-bodied and boozy (not unlike sailors) with a biscuity, creamy, almost cask-conditioned mouthfeel. A complex, earthy bitterness from Falconer’s 7C and Zythos hops should greet your tongue and stay with you to the cold, dark bottom. You’ve been warned.

“Sailor’s Delight” is a refreshing, 5.1% ABV sessionable red ale. Lighter in both color and body than “Sailor’s Warning,” this delight (pun intended) was cleanly hopped with Magnum and delicately spiked with vanilla beans in a way that makes calm waters and beautiful sunsets even more enjoyable. Go ahead, kick your feet up for this one.

About South Loop Brewing: 
At present, South Loop Brewing Company consists of three gentlemen - Jeremiah, Jude and Jason, running a homebrewing operation and a dream to bring the community of craft beer to the South Loop. Since they're not 100% funded yet or licensed, they are free to collaborate with other licensed brewers, but not release beers in their own facility just yet. "We intend to get there through a Kickstarter campaign slated to launch this September, but it was important to us to get actual beer on tap so friends, family and strangers alike could try our handiwork before we asked them to help us fund a brick-and-mortar brewery," says Jeremiah.

The two-beer collaboration "Sailor's Delight" and "Sailor's Warning" were brewed with Lake Effect Brewing Company, is their first. Jeremiah shared that "the response and support so far has been exciting and extremely motivating. We're really looking forward to tapping those kegs and seeing what people think."

They aim to continue gaining momentum with more collaborations. You may see them brewing their own original recipes at other friend-breweries to get their beer into market sooner, but the end goal is a production brewery with a taproom and shop in South Loop proper. They've already scouted a handful of locations that could eventually be home, and are excited and hoping for the best with the ability to reach the Kickstarter goal.

Many of South Loop Brewing's beers are inspired by and named after South Loop-related areas or roads: "India(na Ave.) Pale Ale," "Solidarity Stout" and "Hop Monster of the Midway," to name a few. They want to have fun with beer names and styles, but also intend to tell a story about the South Loop when and where possible.

We look forward to much more from these guys in the near future!

Chicago Beer Gals - July Event

Ladies, join us for evening of great beer and conversation at Brew Camp with special guests JP Pfäfflin (Cicerone Certification Program) and Sally Selwan (Louis Glunz Beer, Certified Cicerone). Tickets available here.

Have questions about the event? Want to be a future guest speaker? Feel free to email me.