Thank bloody Christ that October is over. Always the best month of the year, it is also always the most arduous to get through. Every weekend is packed to it’s ghostly gills with new and amazing ways for me to hasten my demise and muddy my senses in the interim. One of these weekends a [...]
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Deep In the Heart of Darkness
We were somewhere around New Buffalo on the edge of Michigan when my cell phone began to ring. “Theater Bizarre is cancelled, bud. They’re going to try and find another venue to host it, but, well, yeah. Not gonna happen. This Sucks.” Willard was down, but characteristically resolute. I imagine growing up in Detroit you [...]
Outside in New York Pt. 1
As mentioned in my post about the Bavarian Lodge’s Oktoberfest kick off party, myself, AJ and Matt spent a long weekend in Brooklyn, ostensibly to go to the Ween SummerStage show at Central Park, though we did manage to find several other distractions along the way. In prepping for the trip I hit up the [...]
Oktoberfest Kick Off at Bavarian Lodge with Metropolitan
On Friday September 17th the Bavarian Lodge will kick off it’s annual Oktoberfest with a pig roast and two exclusive beers from Metropolitan. Two Exclusive Metropolitan Brews will Be Tapped at the Event… One on draft, plus a very special gravity-fed firkin that will be tapped right on the bar! As always, the day also [...]
Half Acre’s Freedom of ’78
Friday saw the release of Half Acre‘s collective hat tip to America’s most sexually articulate rock duo, Ween. They had been hyping this collaboration with Short’s Brewing since Ween came to town back at the end of June. Right from the nose you know this is a Half Acre effort. Aside from the noticeable addition [...]
15% off Half Acre Beer with Ween Ticket
Chicago’s favorite beer brewing, god fearing, patriots Half Acre are at it once again, brewing a beer tribute to the everybody’s favorite tiger riding, mollusk licking, heathens WEEN! They’re pairing up with Shorts Brewing and Piece to make Freedom of ’78 a guava IPA in honor of Gene and Dean. And what’s more, to celebrate [...]
New Belgium’s Tour de Fat Saturday at Palmer Square
This looks suspiciously hippie-like to me, but, regardless, I may roll down and check out New Belgium’s Tour de Fat at Palmer Square on Saturday. That is if I’m not too beat up from the Ween show the night before. Shit, I still need to post the review of the Beer Hoptacular.