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Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Oct 4, 2017
Mousetrap, Off Color Brewing’s taproom, is designed to ensnare lovers of experimental beers

Off Color expands its capacity for experimental and wild beers with a 150-seat taproom in Lincoln Park.
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Off Color Brewing, John Laffler, gose, Mousetrap, taproom, Ben Fasman, Big Star, Dove's Luncheonette, Estereo

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Jul 11, 2017
Ancient Chinese techniques inspired the Field Museum and Off Color to make an extraordinary new beer

Brewer John Laffler talks about how he used rice and mold—and some help from a Field archaeologist—to create the new, limited QingMing.
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Booze, Food & Drink, QingMing, Off Color Brewing, rice beer, koji, Field Museum, ancient Chinese brewing

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Mar 9, 2017
The ultimate guide to Chicago brewery tours

The best tours for beer geeks who're also cat lovers, home brewers with a dream, gluten-intolerant cyclists, experts who think they've seen it all, and more
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, brewery tour, craft beer, three floyds, Three Floyds Brewing Company, Empirical Brewery, Greenstar Brewing, Off Color Brewing, Lake Effect Brewing Company, Hopewell Brewing Company, Sketchbook Brewing Co., Dovetail Brewery, Haymarket Pub & Brewery, Half Acre Beer Company, Argus Brewery, 5 Rabbit Cerveceria, Lagunitas Brewing Company, Two Brothers, Moody Tongue, Temperance Beer Company, On Tour Brewing Company, Revolution Brewing, Begyle Brewing Company, Goose Island Beer Company, Metropolitan, Baderbräu, Cruz Blanca Cerveceria, Metropolitan Brewery, Begyle Brewery, Revolution Brewing Tap Room, Goose Island Beer Co, On Your Brewing Company, Cruz Blanca Cervercería, Lagunitas Tap Room, The Tasting Room at Moody Tongue, Two Brothers Brewing Company, Three Floyds Brewpub

Blogs, Bleader Dec 1, 2016
Todd Ricketts tapped by Trump for Commerce Department, and more Chicago news

Trump passes on the bouquet to Ricketts scion Todd, bids him to say hello to the folks.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Donald Trump, Todd Ricketts, Chicago Cubs, Joe Ricketts, Bruce Rauner, Illinois General Assembly, Illinois Republicans, Richard M. Daley, Jon Burge, police torture, Off Color Brewing, craft beer

Blogs, Bleader May 14, 2015
The best Chicago Craft Beer Week 2015 events

Check out the best Chicago Craft Beer Week events.
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Booze, Food & Drink, Chicago Craft Beer Week, Garfield Park Conservatory, Metropolitan, Off Color Brewing, Fischman Liquors and Tavern, Avery Brewing, Drinking & Writing Brewery, Haymarket, Goose Island, Aquanut, Arcade, Empirical, Pollyanna, Sketchbook, Jerry's, Virtue Cider, Perennial Artisan Ales, Revolution Brewing, Off Color Brewing, Pipeworks, Firestone Walker, 5 Rabbit, Moody Tongue, Three Floyds, Surly, Solemn Oath, Gigantic Brewing

Blogs, Bleader Jan 7, 2015
Video
Next's Paris Bistro teaser is ever so twee

Plus an introduction to Intro, Big Jones goes soul, and more food goings on
- By Michael Gebert
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Next, Next Bistro, Dave Beran, Grant Achatz, Intro, C.J. Jacobson, Big Jones, Adrian Miller, Sunday Dinner Club, Osteria Via Stato, David DiGregorio, Off Color Brewing, Missy Corey, Publican Quality Meats, Video

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Nov 13, 2014
Chicago breweries are reviving long-forgotten beers

Four locally brewed beers from a bygone era
- By Julia Thiel and Philip Montoro
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Garrett Oliver, The Oxford Companion to Beer, Dogfish Head, Patrick McGovern, Ancient Ales, King Midas, Great Lakes Brewing, University of Chicago, Marz Brewing: Smoke Wheat Everyday Grätzer, Ed Marszewski, Mike Marszewski, Alex Robertson, Berliner Weisse, Maria's Packaged Goods & Community Bar, Publican Quality Meats, Dusek's, Off Color Brewing, Scurry, Kottbusser, John Laffler, Kaiser Tiger, Publican, Xoco Wicker Park, Binny's, Whole Foods, Spiteful Brewing, Prove It Gruit, Jason Klein, Calvin Fredrickson, Smylie Brothers Brewing Company, Steinbier, Brad Pulver

Blogs, Bleader Jul 16, 2014
John Laffler: 'Genuineness will be the next crisis in craft brewing'

John Laffler of Off Color Brewing offers his assessment of Chicago's beer scene.
- By Michael Gebert
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, John Laffler, Off Color Brewing, Kottbusser, Randy Mosher, Nick Floyd, Three Floyds, Goose Island, Revolution Brewing

Blogs, Bleader Jul 15, 2014
Off Color Brewing's John Laffler: 'Why do we need to make this beer?'

Talking with the ex-Goose Island R&D brewer at his Off Color Brewing
- By Michael Gebert
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Off Color Brewing, John Laffler, Troublesome, beer, Dave Bleitner, Goose Island, Greg Hall, Lagunitas, sour beer

Blogs, Bleader May 12, 2014
Video
Off Color's DinoSmores stout: Not quite extinct

Catching up with the goings-on at Off Color, using the pretext of reviewing their sought-after DinoSmores Russian Imperial Stout
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Off Color, Off Color Brewing, John Laffler, Dave Bleitner, DinoSmores, 12 Percent Imports, DinoSmores Russian Imperial Stout, Tim Breen, Nikki Jarecki, Fierce, Apex Predator, Troublesome, Scurry, Boris, Dyna-Soar, Heavy Rocks, Masonna, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 3, 2014
Video
Killer casks at the Day of the Living Ales

If you think "cask beer" means "flat, warm, and funny tasting," what you've had is some seriously fucked-up cask beer—and this is the festival to prove it to you.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Chicago Beer Society, Day of the Living Ales, Night of the Living Ales, real ale, cask, firkin, Off Color Brewing, Half Acre, Tighthead, Goose Island, Pineapple Brettanomite, Violets, Jasminesome, Boxcar Porter with coffee, Steve Hamburg, the Hammer the Bullet and the Vise, Misfits, Infernal Majesty, Night of the Living Dead, Metropolitan, Cherry Generator, Rock Bottom, Nifty Galifty, Forbidden Root, Allons-y, Solemn Oath, Less Than Three With Tea, Three Floyds, Space Station Middle Finger, Red Skull, Revolution Brewing, Saugatuck, Mandarina, Neapolitan, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 19, 2013
A look at the new Off Color brewery

Off Color Brewing launches Troublesome and Scurry, its first year-round beers, with a party at the brewery.
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Booze, Food & Drink, Off Color Brewing, John Laffler, Troublesome, Scurry, Beer Geek Mus, Thundersnow, Tonnerre Neige, gose, kottbusser

Food & Drink, Summer Guide May 16, 2013
Chicago Craft Beer Week's cup runneth over

The 11-day week may be too much for one beer-nerd brain to process.
- By Philip Montoro and Julia Thiel
- Tags: Summer Guide, Chicago Craft Beer week, beer, craft beer, 4 Paws Brewing, Begyle Brewing Company, Off Color Brewing, Metropolitan Brewing, Goose Island Beer Company, Rock Bottom Brewery, breweries, Atlad Brewing Company, Two Brothers Brewing Company, Half Acre Beer Company, Revolution Brewing, Haymarket Pub & Brewery, Pipeworks Brewing Company, Jerry's, SmallBar Division, Mary's Attic Theatre, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Garfield Park Conservatory, Small Bar Division

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Mar 14, 2013
Craft beer from the inside: A Gchat

To get a feel for the business, talk to the people doing the work.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, beer, Square Kegs Homebrew Club, Gary Gulley, Panic Brewing, craft beer, Kickstarter, business plans, brewing, Mikkel Borg Bergsø and Jeppe Jarnit-Bjergsø, Jess Straka, Evil Twin Brewing, Mikkeller, John Laffler, Anheuser-Busch InBev, ABV, alcohol by volume, TTB, Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, Gchat, packaging, bombers, Meheen Manufacturing Inc., bottles, cans, interviews, Off Color Brewing, Twitter, Metropolitan Brewing, Goose Island Beer Company, gose, kottbusser, breweries, Lagunitas Brewing Company, Two Brothers Brewing Company, Dave Bleitner, Half Acre Beer Company, Revolution Brewing, Haymarket Pub & Brewery, Pipeworks Brewing Company, 4 Paws Brewing, Black Rock Pub & Kitchen, Begyle Brewing Company, Map Room, Scrabble, Atlas Brewing Company, Metropolitan Brewery, Black Butte Porter, Huber, The Owl, Hopleaf, The Continental

Blogs, Bleader Mar 11, 2013
Off Color Brewing's "Mischief" pop-up bar: You will want to drink all their beer

Off Color Brewing debuts with four tasty collaborations: a pink pilsner, a smoked bock, a half bock, and a potent French-Belgian chimera.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Off Color Brewing, Mischief, Black Rock Pub, Dave Bleitner, John Laffler, Metropolitan, Three Floyds, Haymarket, Doug Hurst, gose, kottbusser, Tonnerre Neige, half bock, smoked bock, pink pilsner, dinosmores, bee's knees, Manhattan, Jens Kidman, Meshuggah, Local Option, Xlerator

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Off Color expands its capacity for experimental and wild beers with a 150-seat taproom in Lincoln Park.

Brewer John Laffler talks about how he used rice and mold—and some help from a Field archaeologist—to create the new, limited QingMing.

The best tours for beer geeks who're also cat lovers, home brewers with a dream, gluten-intolerant cyclists, experts who think they've seen it all, and more

Trump passes on the bouquet to Ricketts scion Todd, bids him to say hello to the folks.

Check out the best Chicago Craft Beer Week events.

Plus an introduction to Intro, Big Jones goes soul, and more food goings on

Four locally brewed beers from a bygone era

John Laffler of Off Color Brewing offers his assessment of Chicago's beer scene.

Talking with the ex-Goose Island R&D brewer at his Off Color Brewing

Catching up with the goings-on at Off Color, using the pretext of reviewing their sought-after DinoSmores Russian Imperial Stout

If you think "cask beer" means "flat, warm, and funny tasting," what you've had is some seriously fucked-up cask beer—and this is the festival to prove it to you.

Off Color Brewing launches Troublesome and Scurry, its first year-round beers, with a party at the brewery.

The 11-day week may be too much for one beer-nerd brain to process.

To get a feel for the business, talk to the people doing the work.

Off Color Brewing debuts with four tasty collaborations: a pink pilsner, a smoked bock, a half bock, and a potent French-Belgian chimera.

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