Chicago By the Pint: A Craft Beer History of the Windy City

by Denese Neu

Overview

Belly up to the bar and take a swig of Chicago's beer history with this new look at the Windy City's best and most historic brews and breweries. Included are Chicago's most prominent and significant craft breweries, with intricate details on history, important personalities and events in the breweries' past, top beers and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781609491253
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	11/18/2011
Series:	American Palate
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Denise Neu earned her PhD at the University of New Orleans and now resides in Chicago's Andersonville neighborhood. In addition to a career in public policy and community development, she is a humanities scholar and longtime craft beer enthusiast. Combining her love of great beer and her training as an urban social scientist, she hopes that you will enjoy her pint-sized history lessons along with your pint.

Table of Contents

Introduction: A Pint-Sized History of Brewing in Chicago (and Some Rambling About Urban History) 11

Argus Brewery 17

Crown Brewing 23

Flossmoor Station Restaurant and Brewery 29

Goose Island Clybourn Brewpub 36

Goose Island Wrigleyville Brewpub 42

Half Acre Beer Company 49

Hamburger Mary's 55

Haymarket Pub and Brewery 62

Limestone Brewing Company 69

Metropolitan Brewing 76

Mickey Finn's Brewery 83

The Onion Pub and Brewery 89

Piece Brewery and Pizzeria 95

Two Brothers Roundhouse 101

Two Brothers Tap House and Brewing Company 109

Appendix: Planning Your Brewery Visits 117

About the Author 127

Editorial Reviews

"A series of engrossing meticulously researched historic vignettes" -The Chicago Reader

"One of the top five gift books for beer lovers" -The Chicago Tribune

"Beer nerds and history buffs will find common ground while reading this quirky volume, which uses Chicago-area breweries as an entry point into the city s broader history. The author, public-policy scholar and suds enthusiast Denese Neu, uses 15 taprooms as starting points for what she calls "bar stool stories"—essentially, local lore about the neighborhood that you might hear from an old-timer over a cold pint. Mostly, the connection is tangential: The location of the Goose Island brewpub in Wrigleyville (home of the Cubs) serves as a launchpad for a treatise on the city's sporting past. Other times, there s a more concrete (if still whimsical) connection: A visit to Crown Brewing in the nearby town of Crown Point, Indiana, leads to the story of notorious bank robber John Dillinger, who was locked up in (and ultimately escaped from) a jail, part of which is now the brewery." —Andrew Frisicano Time Out New York

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