Julia Thiel is a Chicago-based journalist who writes about beer, cocktails, and food. Follow her on Twitter at @juliathiel.
The unlikely key to the rapid success of Illinois brewery Destihl has been a beer category that was all but unheard of until a few years ago: sours.
Trading sprawling fields for rooftop gardens, urban farm breweries from Los Angeles to Chicago and New York bring a new kind of authenticity to farmhouse-style beers.
