I’m pretty proud of our track record with brewer interviews here at OA. We interviewed Gabriel Magliaro just before Half Acre opened in 2009 and then did a great interview with the Pipeworks guys in 2010 when they started their kickstart campaign. Both of those companies have brought something truly unique and uplifting to Chicago’s [...]
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A Fresh Paradigm of Beer in Chicago: Dryhop’s Greg Shuff Interviewed
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Uganda Skate Union
Times are hard right now for first world fat heads. I joked recently that back in ye olde middle ’90s, when I was living on a steady diet of TVP and LSD, reading Terrance McKenna’s “Invisible Landscape” for the first time, and sitting around with my friends, like a puddle of stoned poodles, running on [...]
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Stillwater Holland Oats Release @ Bottom Lounge Tomorrow
I know I admitted to my first full-fledged mancrush on Damon Zex a few weeks ago, but I may be developing another on Brian Strumke from Stillwater Artisanal Ales. I tried his Folklore on Friday for the first time and it immediately turned me into a quivering puddle of little girlness, pigtails and all. I’ve [...]
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March 12th @ St. Paul’s Church – Help Keep the Arts In Wicker Park!!!
Please come to a meeting at St. Paul’s Church on North Avenue to support the Near Northwest Arts Council (NNWAC) on March 12th at 7pm. The NNWAC is being pushed out of their building by a super shady “religious” organization with a long track record of activities typically associated with cults. And no, not the [...]
West Lakeview Liquors Is Why I Love Chicago
This past Sunday West Lakeview Liquors hosted Jérôme Rebetez from BFM to tap and pour a wood cask of his 2010 Abbaye de St. bon Chien. As always WLV played the expert host, not only pouring the bon Chien, but also a Terrapin collaboration barley “ryne”, as well as BFMs entire bottle portfolio. There was [...]
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Merry Christmas, Fatsos.
Eliminate all human sorrows. Activate joy, stat.
Awesome and Easy Pate
This is a totally simple and tasty recipe for a liver pate that I snagged out of Cook’s Illustrated. It calls for chicken liver, but I made this with goose liver’s from Gephardt’s last time. For our annual Christmas party this weekend I’m making it from beef liver. I’ve not used beef liver before and [...]
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New Chef at Chief O’Neill’s
A co-worker just hit me up with the news that Alan Lake is going to be the new chef at Chief O’Neil’s. About two days ago, Lake told me he took the full-time chef position at O’Neill’s. What cinched the deal for him, he said, was his experience at the famous Shelbourne in Ireland, where [...]