SmallBar Division Preps For Thanksgiving With Stout Blowout

By Chuck Sudo in Food on Nov 14, 2012 9:45PM

Slowly but surely the weather is becoming more friendly for heavier beers like porters, barleywines and stouts. Especially stouts, whose combinations of sweet roasted malts and heavy gravity make a perfect remedy for evening chills across Chicago. Stouts are great in front of a fireplace, in a snifter or an imperial pint, as a complement for food or as a dessert unto themselves, and especially as an ingredient in Bloody marys.

SmallBar Division will be featuring 16 of the biggest and best stouts available locally for their stout blowout starting 6 p.m. Nov. 20. Phil McFarland and his crew have been saving some of the selections for months, particularly for this occasion. Check out this lineup:

Goose Island Bourbon County Stout
Goose Island Bourbon County Stout Coffee Stout
Three Floyds Hell’s Black Intelligencer
Firestone Walker Parabola
Firestone Walker Velvet Merkin
Mikkeller Soft DK
Greenbush & SmallBar Templeton Rye Barrel-aged Mr. Hyde
Greenbush & SmallBar Mr. Hyde
Founders Breakfast Stout
Against the Grain Bo & Luc
Bells Cherry Stout
New Belgium’s first ever stout! Imperial Coffee Chocolate Stout
Solemn Oath Grumpess
Southern Tier Creme Brulee
Stillwater/Evil Twin Perfect Crime Smoking Gun
Finch Secret Stache

That's a Murderers Row of stouts by any definition.

SmallBar Division is located at 2049 W. Division St.