Downstate Brewers Coming To Town For Craft Beer Week

By Paul Schneider in Food on Apr 28, 2012 7:30PM

Chicago craft beer drinkers know and love local craft breweries like Haymarket, Revolution, Half Acre, and Three Floyds. But how about Six Row? Bent River? Rolling Meadows? Big Muddy? These downstate brewers have been flying under the radar here in Chicago, but that will change when they share their brews under the bright lights of Chicago Craft Beer Week.

Guys Drinking Beer, the blogging team that provides top-notch coverage of Illinois beer legislation and politics, is calling on its downstate connections to put on "South of 80: A Celebration of Downstate Brewers," a showcase of some of Illinois' (and St. Louis in the case of Six Row) most under-appreciated yeast wranglers. Reps from each brewery will be pouring beers that rarely or never make it to Chicagoland at The Green Lady on Tuesday, May 22 from 7-10 p.m.