Author: Julia Thiel

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Julia Thiel is a Chicago-based journalist who writes about beer, cocktails, and food. Follow her on Twitter at @juliathiel.

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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.

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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.

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