Goose Island (2019)

Discussion in 'Great Lakes' started by ChicagoJ, Feb 3, 2019.

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  1. ChicagoJ

    ChicagoJ Grand Pooh-Bah (5,247) Feb 2, 2015 Illinois
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    Cool MBA benefit this month, worth grabbing a booklet if you don’t have one for free growlers.

    Saw Honkers Ale in the taplist (1/19 last update :rolling_eyes: ) which I’ll check out if they brewed it on site. Not sure if they cut off National Brewing and distribution at this point, heard they were.

    FEBRUARY 2019 BENEFIT: You guys are as important to us as our wonderful staff, so we thought we'd treat you like them! Beginning February 2nd and lasting until February 28th, MBAs will get staff pricing on all house-brewed pints (that's $2.50!!!). Remember, please show your MBA card to your server/bartender upon arrival.
     
  2. Ceddd99

    Ceddd99 Zealot (609) May 14, 2018 Michigan
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    Why are they cutting national distribution of Honker's ale? It used to be one of my favorite beers that I now can't find anymore.
     
  3. ChicagoJ

    ChicagoJ Grand Pooh-Bah (5,247) Feb 2, 2015 Illinois
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    They couldn’t get the beer right when production moved to NY, sales declined, and the powers that be ended production last year.

    https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/goose-island-honkers-ale.587866/

    Hope they brew and serve Honkers regularly at Clybourn, had an on-site produced pour last year which was very good.

    Speaking of nationally produced GI, you can pick up 15 cans of 312 at Binny’s for $9.99 this weekend, add a penny for free Binny’s peanuts.
     
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  4. Jplachy

    Jplachy Pooh-Bah (1,848) Feb 12, 2012 Illinois
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    Honkers Ale is being brewed at Fulton for draft only.
     
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  5. HouseofWortship

    HouseofWortship Pooh-Bah (2,735) May 3, 2016 Illinois
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    That's ridiculous. They have a cherry stout (I think it may even be barrel aged) that came out of the brewpub for $2.50? After drinking over sugar bombed NEIPAs since it became a Midwest thing, I was extremely pleased at the balance and flavors of the brewpub's Pith Lord and Brut IPA when I had them last month. I wasn't planning on going to Clybourn this month, but at those prices, how can I not? Especially if they have some hidden variants on (though those wouldn't get the discount).
     
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  6. galos11

    galos11 Savant (1,092) Jan 21, 2015 Illinois
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  7. Quilentro

    Quilentro Maven (1,398) May 12, 2017 Illinois
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    Prices are brutal. Hard pass.

    $65 for reserve 17? Come on.
     
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  8. prior2two

    prior2two Maven (1,490) Oct 18, 2013 Illinois
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    Prices on the others?
     
  9. Quilentro

    Quilentro Maven (1,398) May 12, 2017 Illinois
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  10. Jangoon24

    Jangoon24 Savant (1,210) Jul 25, 2015 Illinois
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    There is currently a New England style IPA being brewed at Clybourn. At least that's the assumption with the name "NEIPA"
     
  11. ktr5010

    ktr5010 Savant (1,028) Dec 12, 2014 Illinois
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    I may have missed this, but whatever happened to that apple BCS variation? Did it get released or quietly scrapped?
     
  12. croush

    croush Pooh-Bah (2,407) Mar 20, 2015 Illinois
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    I thought it was just experimenting for next year's Prop or something. I wasn't expecting to see it anytime soon.
     
  13. Quilentro

    Quilentro Maven (1,398) May 12, 2017 Illinois
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    They said we’ll see it at Fulton sometime soon back in early January. I’d go ask today while trying a whale, but coffee barleywine (while good) seems like a small fish to me.

    I haven’t seen it at Fulton, and I stop in every week or so.
     
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  14. HouseofWortship

    HouseofWortship Pooh-Bah (2,735) May 3, 2016 Illinois
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    Lol, they will not be stuffing apples like that into barrels if this becomes a production beer. They will use juice or extract or puree.
     
  15. Jplachy

    Jplachy Pooh-Bah (1,848) Feb 12, 2012 Illinois
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    They'll use the Dorothy tanks just like they used for 2018. So technically they could use apple slices.
     
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  16. HouseofWortship

    HouseofWortship Pooh-Bah (2,735) May 3, 2016 Illinois
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    Technically anything is possible...that just looks like an infection waiting to happen and far too labor intensive sanitizing and chopping up that quantity of apples for production...but who knows, the cut all the vanilla beans by hand in 2018....
     
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  17. ktr5010

    ktr5010 Savant (1,028) Dec 12, 2014 Illinois
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    What is a Dorothy tank?
     
  18. Jplachy

    Jplachy Pooh-Bah (1,848) Feb 12, 2012 Illinois
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    Its a small tank you can fill with adjuncts and you run the beer from one tank to another through the adjuncts and back and forth until you get the desired flavor in the beer.
     
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  19. prior2two

    prior2two Maven (1,490) Oct 18, 2013 Illinois
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    The Blackhawk game event this Sunday at the warehouse looks pretty dope. I wanted to go last year, but couldn’t make it.

    BCS Vanilla, Templeton Rye, and Founders CBS and KBS? Yes please.

    http://bit.ly/2HwmojA
     
  20. HouseofWortship

    HouseofWortship Pooh-Bah (2,735) May 3, 2016 Illinois
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    Pricing is very fair. Wish they would have done these things for Bears games...or did I miss it?
     
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