Chicagoist: Chicagoist's "Beer of the Week": Point Honey Light

smallerdemon

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:43:26 -0600

I am still following the thread everyone. :) I am in debt of graditude to you all for your great local knowledge and your fine suggestions for obtaining our world's finest beverage. :)

Brian Velkavrh

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 22:54:36 -0600

You should check out Flossmoor Station in Flosmoor, IL. You can to to it from metra electric. Great brewpub. I highly recommend the Cherry Wheat. Flossmoor Station's Website

Joe M500

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:51:39 -0600

smallerdemon, There are several other great bars and brewpubs in the surrounding area. Best in the World (IMO) is just a few miles away, THREE FLOYDS BREWPUB... PIECE PIZZA has the best of both Worlds, their own fine ales and great pizza. Maproom is probably the closest thing we have to the Toronado, and I'll buy the first round when you arrive. Cheers Joe m500

Chuck

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:45:11 -0600

smallerdemon: Keep posted on these pages, I'll have a nice Bell's option for you in a couple weeks.

smallerdemon

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 13:07:58 -0600

:) Many thanks for the info. (See, this kind of thing... that's why we're thinking about moving there in the first place. Chicagoans rock.) I had Two Hearted back in July during our visit to Chicago. Amazing stuff. I am sad I can't find it here. (Although, I did get to try some other Bells at the Oregon Brewers Festival a few weeks ago.) I will certainly take note of tsmo's aforementioned bars (how can you go wrong with a name like Hopleaf?) as well as the regional breweries. Thank you all!

Chuck

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:48:55 -0600

It's also worth the road trip to head to Wisconsin and go to New Glarus. It's about two hours away, but the beer is amazing.

tsmo

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:33:39 -0600

Never fear, smallerdemon. Chicago is home to two of the best beer bars in the midwest, if not the country: http://www.maproom.com http://www.hopleaf.com If those two don't do it for you, there are also a whole slew of still-excellent second-tier beer bars like The Long Room, Quenchers, Sheffield's, and Small Bar. And the beer culture's good enough that even the shitty corner liquor store's probably going to carry something decent. Although we don't have distribution for any Stone or Alesmith beers, we have got New Holland, Bell's, Great Lakes and Founders. And if you really need to spend time at a brewery, Three Floyds is just over the border in Indiana.

jap

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:59:18 -0600

Fair enough, Chuck. For Trixie and Chad, probably not a lot. Change in ownership meant change in staff, which makes a big difference to me, as I can no longer drink for free or afterhours there. Didn't love the bar, but that made it tolerable.

Zak

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:02:27 -0600

Smallerdemon- A) Little surprised to see a light beer picked as beer of the week myself, and I'm a Chicagoan. Moreover, I always thought of Point as a piss beer worthy of fishing trips and not much elses. B) Although not Chicagoan, the Bells Brewery out of Kalamazoo, MI, makes some of the best beer I've had anywhere in the country. Especially their Two-Hearted Ale, a puckeringly hoppy IPA.

smallerdemon

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:57:30 -0600

My spouse and I are entertaining moving to Chicago (from San Francisco) next year, and I am going to fess up my near fear of the beer situation in Chicago. I am spending the next year learning to home brew so I can make beer that I like. Not that I wasn't able to find decent bottled beer at Sam's and other great stores in Chicago, but microbrew in the city seems to be... paltry. Not that I don't love Goose Island's great brews, but I've been researching online and not finding a whole hell of a lot in the way of small breweries in and around Chicago. Enlighten me. Tell me my research is terrible. Let me know that great American ales and saisons and porters and stouts and bitters are hiding in Chicagoo and that I'm definitely going to find them. :) I can't say I'm delighted to see a light beer picked as a beer of the week, but I am happy to see that at least there's an appreciation for how beer should be.

Chuck

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:16:40 -0600

I live on the south side, jap. Jack Sullivan's, Barleycorn sports. What's in a name?

jap

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:30:56 -0600

Research, Chicagoist! Jack Sullivan's has been closed for around a year and replaced with Barleycorn Sports. And I hate that I know that.