Chicagoland NE IPAs (2018)

Tons of great local NE ipas at the Binny's event last night. Corridor Highway to Haze, More Mosaic Dusty, Old Irving Trendii were the standouts. Also enjoyed Saint Errant Fuzzy Britches, Noon Whistle Gummy Vortex, and Prairie Krafts Paper Wings. All around great event for $5.

 

f man i wish i knew that was going on.

we need an events thread

 

Do you follow Binny’s on social media? I know there were posts on both IG and FB about it. I was anti-FB for years, but I finally broke down last year, solely because of wanting to get beer updates. I’m not sure I should be proud of that.

 

Twitter was originally my sports fix, and still is, but morphed into beer as well. IG and FB are much better now for beer updates than Twitter IMO. Lots of tappings and special events can be found on FB, and IG usually has info on newest beer releases by certain breweries. In short, I use them all to optimize my beer experience!

 

The pineapple presence is exactly what was memorable about B1 for me also. I remember the guys at the beer cellar were letting customers taste it as they came in and it was of those "damn, is there a limit?" moments.

 

Anyone seen HC Fresh One Hop Citra in the western suburbs yet?

 

Binnys STC has like 3 cases in the floor, grabbed one

 

They have orange blaze by chance

 

Thanks! Grabbed one along with Lunch and Pompeii Great calls with a full fridge!

 

That was a good day

 

Lunch bottles in the area...nice. I haven’t seen those in ages it seems.

 

Pretty sure Oak Trail Spirits in Mundelein still has bottles from 2016.
Pointed it out to the guy and his reply was "yeah its fine, people buy them and don't complain" and thats why I don't go there anymore

 

Didn't even look

 

Agree - I think the format is just better on IG, and a higher percentage of breweries seem to use IG/FB.

This is literally the only reason I'm on IG. I don't follow any of my friends, that's facebook for me. It's kind of funny, a few people that I know started following me and if they pay attention they realize I don't post and only see a like for "this beer is being released tomorrow" type posts.

 

I'd actually been wondering about them...are they selling cans/bottles of their IPA's to go, or is it all growler?

 

I was in Madison this weekend. Picked up a couple Brewing Projekt beers, Dare Mighty Things and DMT-Citra, those are great beers. It's not Chicagoland obviously - I believe they don't distribute southeast of Madison yet, but those might be some worthwhile NE IPAs to pickup if you're ever in Wisconsin past the Milwaukee area.