There’s two events on February 24th that I’m willing to publicly wet my pants over. I’m not entirely sure that that is necessary, but I like to give this whole ritual-of-self-abuse-thing 110%. First off you’ve got SmallBar Fullerton with their 2 year anniversary party hosting an evening of sour beers. Their tap list includes some [...]
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Feb. 24, Somebody Get Me King David
Posted in Beer, Event, Review | Also tagged Bavarian Lodge, BFM, Cantillon, gose, Jerome Rebetez, Jolly Pumpkin | Leave a comment
Half Acre’s Craft Beer Week Schedule
It looks like those snaggle-toothed, yellow-eyed, feral wizard-beasts over at Half Acre will be providing more than one opportunity during Chicago’s Craft Beer Week to misplace your car, your dignity, your job and your hopes of leading a life of quiet solemnity. Awesome! Here are the basics on where Half Acre & Friends will be. [...]
Posted in Beer, Event | Also tagged 3 Floyd's, Acre, Chicago, Chicago Craft Beer Week, Garfield Park, Half Acre, Hopleaf | 1 Comment
Stone Barley Wine Cask Tapped Friday March 18 @ Small Bar Fullerton
There have only been a few things that have caused my will to waver even a bit while on this stupid detox. Thinking about the folks in Japan and the thick-headed, cock-sucking Governors in Wisconsin, Ohio, Michigan and Tennessee This amazing weather in Chicago And now this rare and amazing treat going down at Small [...]
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Victory v. Half Acre, Small Bar January 7th
It looks like Small Bar Division is going to start tapping a new cask the first Friday of every month and, to properly celebrate this achievement in boozey calendrics, their going to be rolling out some serious Victory and Half Acre pulls on January 7th: Join us as we tap a cask of Victory Yakima [...]
Posted in Beer, Event, Review | Also tagged Big Hugs, Chicago, Daisy Cutter, Double Daisy Cutter, Half Acre, On Photon, Prima Pils, Thunder & Son, Victory, Yakima Twilight | Leave a comment
Sample The Balvenie Peated Cask @ Gilt Bar October 6
Balvenie is one of my favorite single malt scotch whisky’s available, so you can rest assured I’m going to be elbowing my way into this event at the Gilt Bar over by Kinzie and LaSalle next Wednesday. The Balvenie Cordially Invites you to the launch of a special limited release: The Balvenie Peated Cask, Seventeen [...]
Posted in Event | Also tagged Bad Religion, Balvenie, Circle Jerks, Gilt Bar, Midnight Movie Massacre, Music Box Theatre, Riot Fest, Scotch, Stone Brewery | Leave a comment
Oct. 5: Stone Tap Take Over @ Small Bar
I’m pretty stoked about this Stone event at all three Small Bars. Last time they did this, last March when Stone was new in town, it was great. There’s something truly liberating about triple fisting pints of Ruination from a firkin. We’ll have different Stone drafts at all three SmallBar locations for a total of [...]
Beer Hoptacular This Weekend!!
Well, I’m back from Belgium. The few remaining hairs on my head are properly blown back, my heart is stoking along a steady 100* from all the kindness of the many wonderful Belgians we met, and my liver is seriously pissed off at me, trying to show me who the boss is of this round, [...]
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Stone Launch Party at Bavarian Lodge April 3rd @ Noon
You may recall my manic rants from last week about my new church, the
Posted in Beer, Event, Review | Also tagged Arrogant Bastard, Bavarian Lodge, Hop Leaf, Kuma's, Stone, Twisted Spoke | Leave a comment
More Perils for the Boneheaded in the Land of Home Brewing
So we bottled what may be our best (3rd) batch of an IPA yesterday. The whole process went incredibly smooth from sparge to bottling. We were so happy with ourselves that we felt a celebratory beer was in order. We put the beer in the back of Matt’s car and headed over to the Small [...]
Posted in Beer, Event, Instructional, Review | Also tagged Beer Advocate, Bockor Sour Ale, Buffalo Chicken Spring Rolls, Chicago, Half Acre Baume, home, Homebrewing, Rogue Dead Guy Whiskey, Surly Furious, Tyranena Dirty Ol' Man, Victory Prima Pils | Leave a comment
Small Bar Division Hosting Bell’s Dinner
Join us Monday, February 15 for another beer dinner featuring a local favorite, Bell’s Brewery. Chef Todd Davies and the SmallBar Team will be presenting five courses paired with some of the breweries best. Please call us on 773-772-2727 or stop in and speak with a server or bartender to save your seat today. Here’s [...]