Have you abandoned Goose Island since its sale to A-B InBev last March? Good. More for us. Old Town Yard is our beer of the week - and one hell of a Helles. more ›

Chicagoist can confirm that Revolution Brewing and Firestone Walker Brewery will be working on a collaborative beer at Revolution's brewpub. Revolution Brewer Jim Cibak told us that he and Firestone Walker lead brewer Dustin Kral will be brewing a dry, West Coast-style IPA. "Midwestern IPAs tend to have a maltier palate," Cibak said. "This will be far removed from that." Cibak's relationship with Firestone Walker goes back years, when he brewed there under brewmaster Matt Brynildson. Both Cibak, Brynildson and Revolution owner Josh Deth brewed under Greg Hall at Goose Island, and Cibak still has friendly relations with Brynildson and Kral. This will be their first collaboration together. Brewing begins Saturday. more ›

We were all set to our selection this week. Then we went to Sheffield's for their Life & Limb release party last night and our original writeup was shot right the hell out of the water. By God do you need to brave slick streets and foul weather — life and limb, some might say — to drink this beer. more ›

Last night's beer dinner at the Publican was the culmination of six months of planning and discussions between Paul Kahan and New Holland Brewing Company. After all the brewing, the emails and phone calls, getting to know each other and travel between Chicago and Holland, it came down to the beer and the food, as it should have been. The proof, as the adage goes, would be in the pudding. more ›

One of the agenda items left on the table when Paul Kahan and his entourage returned to Chicago from New Holland Brewing was finding a name for the biere de garde they brewed for their August 23 beer dinner at the Publican. Kahan and New Holland's Fred Bueltmann were riffing on mutual jazz musicians they were fans of, before the New Holland Knickerbocker gin and Zeppelin whisky took the riffing to a very dark-but-funny place. more ›