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As Karl mentioned, Oberon Season is getting an early start. Meanwhile we're waiting for the folks at Three Floyds to send us our DarkLord Day golden tickets, which we paid for and will not scalp in the parking lot on April 25.

This week's selection was born from a desire to do something positive for a friend in need. Shortly before her 40th birthday, Virginia MacLean was diagnosed with multiple myeloma. MacLean was already raising funds for cancer research running triathlons and endurance events, so she enlisted the help of two longtime friends to assist her in a new fundraising endeavor. Those friends just happened to be Alan Shapiro of SBS Imports and Pete Slosberg of Pete's Brewing Company fame.

All About Beer magazine (via) listed their "top 125 places to have a beer before you die" (a nice arbitrary number, by the way). Five local taverns made the cut: Hopleaf (#24), Clark Street Ale House (#43), Map Room (#47), Goose Island (#84) and John Barleycorn, which makes the cut ten spots from the bottom at #115.

This week's "BotW" selection is one of those "day late, dollar short" deals. It was available briefly right around WhiskyFest at Guthrie's, Delilah's, Map Room (actually, Map Room may have some left), Long Room, Underbar and Weegee's. It also tied in to WhiskyFest in that the malt used in brewing was whisky malt.

So there we were on that really vicious cold Tuesday night last week, enjoying a steaming plate of pasta at Café Bionda (the good location on south State, not the skeevy Wicker Park version) when we remembered a tip from a frequent reader that Joe Farina was stocking Montegioco beers. Now if you're the type of beer drinker whose knowledge of Italian beers runs to Moretti and Peroni, you're in for a treat.

We chronicled our Saturday night earlier this week, and we need remind no one that it was colder than a witch's tit in a brass bra all day long.

Last month the craft beer community lost one of its greatest advocates with the passing of Michael Jackson, the "Beer Hunter." Jackson's research and writing on this singular subject laid the foundation for the beer, wine, and spirits writers that followed, raised awareness of the passion and commitment to excellence that the best brewers apply to their craft, and lifted beer to a level where it was considered worthy of mention in the same breath...

It's been nearly six months since Bell's Beer founder Larry Bell pulled his product from the Illinois market in a dispute with distributors over the Beer Industry Fair Dealing Act of 1982. Readers will remember that that specific law, enacted at the time to protect distributors from the loss of a giant beer account on the level of Anheuser-Busch or Miller should they decide to move to greener pastures, doesn't give mid-level craft breweries like...

Will the Wicker Park and Bucktown gallery scene become another West Loop, an explosion of art spaces on a few shabby-chic blocks? The Wicker Park and Bucktown Gallery Association hopes not. In this week’s Chicago Journal, Around the Coyote Gallery Director and WPBGA Founder Allison Stites talks about how she'd like to preserve the organic feel of the neighborhood art scene. And for the time being, they don’t have much to fear. The West Loop...

If you’re a discerning beer drinker, live in Chicago, or have followed us here at Chicagoist, you should know that the Map Room is destination numero uno for hard-to-find and craft beer selection. Despite the joint’s larger crowds as of late, we would walk over hot coals for a seat at the bar and a nice Lagunitas Brown Shugga (which happens to be the Map Room’s November beer of the month).

Okay. First things first: it was like a hug from Jesus for Chicagoist to discover that the website Beer Advocate even existed. So we’re over the moon that they’ve compiled the Top 50 Places to Have a Beer in America and had the wisdom to include not only two Chicago watering holes on the list, but two kickass Chicago watering holes. At #5: The Map Room At #21: Hopleaf Bar We talked about Map Room...

As the cliche goes, "change is inevitable." It is a truth that is absolute, even if it does happen at a slower pace here on the south side. When that change involves a favorite watering hole, however, you try to sift through the reams of emotionally charged opinion, hearsay, and rumor, and take your cues from the actions of that establishment's softball team. Now that that team is newly ensconced at Bernice & John's Place up the street, Chicagoist can safely say that after fifteen years our favorite watering hole and one of the south side's - if not the city's - best taverns, Puffer's (3356 S. Halsted, 773-927-6073), will close its doors at the end of the month.

Tuesday night is International Night, featuring buffet items from various countries. Ordering two drinks gets you access to the feast. Chicagoist will be stopping by this evening for Greek night, catered by Greek Islands. The south Halsted eatery serves traditional and family-style entrees, and we’re hoping to help ourselves to some saganaki, dolmades and mousaka. International Night is so popular an event. Although it starts at 7, show up no later than 6:30 to be guaranteed a table. Next week is Philippines night.

It was Homer Simpson who said that “a good beer is like a good woman: it looks nice, it smells nice and you would step over your own mother to get one.”