The Bavarian Lodge is the best place to drink beer in Illinois west of Kedzie. Granted it’s a bit west of Kedzie, but it’s worth the trip. If you like spaetzle & flash fried swine hocks this place will make you wet yourself. If you care at all about good beer you might be looking [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2011
Amazing Tap Line Up @ Bavarian Lodge Tomorrow, July 21st
Posted in Beer, Event Tagged Belgian Independence Day, Cantillon, Lisle, spaetzle, swine hocks, the Bavarian Lodge Leave a comment
The Season of the Goat: Farm to Table Goat & The Joy of Open Pit, Whole Beast BBQ
Earlier this season I put a fire pit in my back yard. Actually, that was the first thing I put in my backyard. A firepit, surrounded by dirt on all sides. Eventually we got around to putting in some grass and some stone work to gussy it up a bit, but the first effort was [...]
Posted in Beer, Event, Grilling, Health, Recipes, Review Tagged BBQ, Brains, Brooklyn Sorachi Ace, Farm to Table, Goat, open pit, sala, Sensory Training, Siebel Institute, Stillwater, The Bruery, Zack the Chef Leave a comment
SoDak Beer
Although, I’ve been a denizen of the Windy city for near on twenty years now, I cut my teeth in the hardscrabble hills and endless prairies of South Dakota. Not a glamorous place to be from nor one that gets a lot of press, save the obligatory American pilgrimage to Mount Rushmore and the hell, [...]
Posted in Beer, Review Tagged Corn Palace, Crow Peak, Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, Wall Drug Leave a comment
Cantillon’s Zwanze Day @ West Lakeview Liquors
September 17th West Lakeview Liquors is going to join some of the finer watering holes in this odd country of ours in tapping a very limited batch of Cantillon. Unfortunately, I’m going to be in Denver with my Uncle at the GABF on this illustrious day, but if I had my druthers I’d be back [...]
Posted in Beer, Event Tagged Cantillon, Chicago, Churckey, Lambic, Spuytin Duyvil, West Lakeview Liquors, Zwanze Day Leave a comment