Chicago Craft Beer Week 2016

Anyone able to post a pic of the Delilah's menu this year? There are always some amazing vintage lambics so I'm curious what I missed out on this year.

*After looking at some Untappd checkins, it looks kind of disappointing compared to previous years. I've had Millenium Gueuze several times at their Sour Fest, as well as '96 Iris, several '99-05 Cantillon and 3F offerings. I'm seeing just 1 vintage of LPG/LPF and just '14 Iris. Don't get me wrong, they are always nice to drink, but for the price they charge it was nice getting the crazy old vintage "ticks."

 

Courtesy of Facebook (the pic not mine)

 

So far great beer, great breweries.
Urban Legend
Miskatonic
Noon Whistle
Alter
Imperial Oak
Blue Nose
Buckle Down
Metal Monkey

 

@sundayfunday - pretty disappointed after last year. Total of five tickets and no opportunity to buy more, have to use tickets for beer and specialty tiny sizes. So you have to decide if you want beer while you are there or to try the speciality!

 

So you got 5 beers, period? The whole time you were at the event? What were the specialty tappings?

 

You got 5 tickets for beers and they took them at the specialty taps and at the all day taps. However, you did get a can of either 312, Goose IPA, or 4 Star Pils when you walked in without a ticket. Also they set up 3 special releases that were total surprises and you did not have to give up a ticket to get those. At 3:00 Cherry Rye was released but at a special location and ran out by 3:20. At 4:00 Vanilla Rye was supposed to be released, but was about 3:45 and ran out a little after 4:00. At 5:00 they released Cuvee of Darkness and I am not sure how long that lasted. As for timed releases they had Black Raspberry BCS at 2 and that one was really good. At 2:40 they had Huelly Lewis, at 3:20 they had Nitro BCS which was really good as well (this one didn't seem to have all the barrel flavor of regular BCS, but I still liked it.) Ferme La Mure was at 4 and Regal Rye was at 4:40. At 5:20 they tapped Apple Cider Kombucha which was super tart but was still pretty good. Other than that they had the regular line up of Goose Island beers all day. It was a fun time and I enjoyed the day.

 

I had a great time. Cans of 312, green line and 4 start pils were handed out for free when you walked in. They also had people walking like ball park vendors handing them out, no ticket needed. The specialty tappings were every 40 min (although I think between Ferem and Regal had a shorter window) and the line moved very fast:
Bourbon County Stout Raspberry
Huelly Lewis
Bourbon County Nitro
Ferme La Mure
2015 Bourbon County Stout Regal Rye
Apple Cider Kombucha

When you went through the line you had to give one of you 5 drink tickets. After about 25-30 min they were just giving away what they had already poured to anyone that would have it, no ticket needed. Also, if you tipped when you went up they would double up or more your pour. Yes, they were in smaller cups with smaller pours but what did you expect with 14%+ABV beer.
At 2, 4 and 5 they poured Cherry Rye, Vanilla Rye and Cuvee of Darkness. There was a 1/6 barrel keg on wheels they just randomly set up at a certain spot and start pouring until it was gone. No ticket needed.

I had:
BCBS Raspberry x2
BCBS Nitro
BCBS Vanilla Rye
BCBS Cherry Rye
Cuvee of Darkness
BCBS regal rye huge pour after tipping the servers
Bee Squad
Huelly Lewis
Ferme La Mure
Apple Cider Kombucha

I got my money's worth and then some.

 

Awesome. I had low expectations for the event and I ended up sick today and unable to attend anyway. Sounds like it turned out better than expected.

 

Most are still available as of today. The Dougernaut was my personal favorite. I was a little bummed I didn't care for Farm to Face as much as I was hoping.

 

Yeah, my experience is basically the same. But the brewers/dodgeball contestants had access to Prop '14 so I had some tastes of that, as well.

If you were waiting by the exit of the pour area til just before/right when they started pouring other beers, you usually got a chance to get the previous one with no ticket. I must have had 4 BCBC Raspberries, 3 Regal Ryes and 2 Huelly Lewis doing that trick.

 

To add...

Brand new brewery in Buffalo Grove called Prarire Kraft brewing is doing $1 off all pints for CCBW

 

Don't forget about the Prop 14

 

Anybody know if volunteering for setup through the Craft Brewers Guild at the Welles Park festival (7am-noon) gets you free admission to the fest? They didn't say anything about it in their email blasts and confirmations but I figure they do something as a thank you to their volunteers.

 

I'm pretty sure it does. It did last year.

 

@beerbelly_mike: thanks!

 

i was at bitter pops for the hopstache event too. it was my first time there, nice little set up. i thought hopstache was great for being only 5.7%. im a little played out on the IPAs in general myself so wasnt exactly blown away.