Posts Tagged: Illinois
An Opportunity Chicago Craft Brewers Should Welcome
Posted by on Sunday, September 4, 2011 in - 1 comment
I am not going to lie to you. Tonight, I made a béchamel sauce into which I dumped half of last night's roast side of salmon, shallots, cauliflower, thyme from the lawn and a bunch of other stuff. It was dandy and even the kids stuffed their faces. I had two types of gueuze and they were just the …
So What Does "Blended 33 To 1" Mean?
Posted by on Wednesday, May 18, 2011 in - 13 comments
I noticed this picture in a collection of 1930s and 40s colour photos from the US Library of Congress collection published by the UK's Daily Mail. Click for a bigger version. The caption is "Part of the South Water Street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad in Chicago, Illinois, May …
"Canadian Summer" Begins... aka Snow Almost Gone
Posted by on Saturday, April 9, 2011 in - leave a comment
Canadian summer? Means it's hit 10C or 50F. Means that you can almost see green grass through last year's grey lawn hay. Means that you went to commune with the BBQ department at Canadian Tire with all the other hungover Tim Horton's slugging early risers, then went and bought more meat just in …
Illinois: IPA, Goose Island Beer Co., Chicago
Posted by on Monday, June 7, 2010 in - 4 comments
On a Monday night when elementary school children are melting down all around you, it is hard to imagine Friday. Friday is that tiny light at the end of a long tunnel. A legend you hear about only in whispers in that place between waking and sleeping. And, worse, it's four days away. • But at …
Illinois: Oh Brother!, Tripel, Two Brothers, Warrenville
Posted by on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 in - 2 comments
This is a really interesting tripel. Not a just a candi sugar bomb, there's a lot of earthiness in there. Not funk. Earth. • It's made by the same folk at Two Brothers Brewing who made that Domaine DuPage I had last fall. It doesn't show on their website but, then again, this page was last …
Illinois: Domaine DuPage, Two Brothers, Warrenville
Posted by on Wednesday, September 9, 2009 in - 1 comment
I should have saved popping this one from Two Brothers until the weekend as I have a decent shot at a run to Marche Jovi and a number of bieres de garde to compare with this mid-western take on the style. But I didn't. • It pours an enormous fine off-white head. Sort of like that foam insulation …
