For Its Latest Beer, a Craft Brewer Chooses an Unlikely Pairing: Archaeology With help from a University of Chicago group, Great Lakes Brewing Company has been working for more than year to replicate a 5,000-year-old Sumerian beer.
From the White House, Beer We Can Believe In The president said the beer was good. Was it? The Dining section truth squad leaped into action, enlisting Garrett Oliver, the brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery, to make a batch to assess. The verdict: It was good. Very good. The White House beer recipe followed by a … Read more
Illinois And Indiana Breweries Have Solid Showing At Great American Beer Festival Illinois and Indiana breweries made a strong showing at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver this weekend, with Illinois taking 10 medals and Indiana taking seven.
Whoa Tender: Two Weeks with Pipeworks whoatender: The corner of Wabansia & Western smells like beer, and Pipeworks is the reason. I had been biking past their warehouse when I saw eight people standing inside the loading dock, drinking and laughing. So I stopped and talked to the one who most closely resembled a brewer, … Read more
Ale to the Chief: White House Beer Recipe White House Assistant Chef and the Senior Policy Advisor for Healthy Food Initiatives (and University of Chicago alum) Sam Kass today posted recipes for The White House Honey Ale and The White House Honey Porter—along with a video—on The White House Blog.