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Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Oct 16, 2020
Stay pizza-positive with Crust Fund Pizza

Food writer John Carruthers auctions his tavern-style pies for social justice.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Food & Drink, Food Chain, pizza, Crust Fund Pizza, John Carruthers, Pizza Friendly Pizza, Pizza Fried Chicken Ice Cream, Kimski, Oriole, Noah Sandoval, Eat Free Pizza, Pretty Cool Ice Cream, Burt's Place, Milly's Pizza in the Pan, Revolution Brewing, The TRiiBE, My Block, My Hood, My City

City Life, Stay at Home May 12, 2020
The Reader's stay-at-home chronicles: day 53

What we're reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.
- By Reader staff
- Tags: Stay at Home, COVID-19, coronavirus, Damon Krukowski, live albums, Peter Margasak, Aimee Levitt, New England-style hot dog buns, Tracy Baim, Chicago Reader, Newcity, community media, chicagoreader.com, @NeinQuarterly, Giri/Haji, Netflix, NewsRadio, Ono, Greg Dulli, Lucinda Williams, Ben Joravsky, Mick Dumke, Bob Dylan, Revolution Brewing, Noon Whistle Brewing, Metropolitan Brewing, beer

Blogs, Bleader Nov 10, 2017
Movies that rock at CIMMfest, Cook County Social Club reunion, and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend

Printers Guild Publishers Fair, sci-fi theater at the Paragon Festival, and more goings-on November 10-12
- By Steve Heisler
- Tags: Arts, Do This, ted leo, chicago loot drop, chicago comer children's hospital, revolution brewing, emporium arcade bar, thalia hall, chicago printers guild publishers festival, cook county social club, iO theater, Baldur Helgason, NYCH gallery, paragon festival

Blogs, Bleader Mar 29, 2017
Frontwoman Fest keeps fighting for a feminist future in Chicago’s music scene

The third annual Frontwoman Fest takes over the Burlington on Saturday with 16 acts that embody the diverse talents of the city's female and female-identified musicians.
- By Lee V. Gaines
- Tags: Do This, LGBTQ+, Music, Gender Issues, Frontwoman Fest, Elaine Davis, Adele Nicholas, Burlington, Jovan, Cell Phones, No Men, So Pretty, Red's Garden, Sports Boyfriend, Pixel Grip, Radiant Devices, Pussy Foot, Drea Smith, Sandra Antongiorgi, Blacker Face, Impulsive Hearts, Revolution Brewing, Girls Rock! Chicago, Kit Curl, Jovan Landry, Danielle Sines, Wendy Lynn Zeldin, Red Jennifer Spektor, Megan Edgin, Ashley Holman, Rita Lukea, Mojdeh Stoakley

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

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Dec 12, 2016
People Issue 2016: Chris Quinn, the high priest of the Beer Temple
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, expansion, freshness, Half Acre, Insiders Roundtable, Lumpen Radio, Margaret Quinn, Mikerphone, Phil Kuhl, podcast, relocation, Revolution Brewing, video podcast, Avery Brewing, beer, Beer Temple, Chris Quinn, cicerone, craft beer, De Bier Tempel, distribution, Donn Bichsel, education, Elston

Blogs, Bleader Sep 26, 2016
Noam Chomsky, I Am Trying to Break Your Heart, and more things to do in Chicago this week

The Girl Talk, the Steezus Tour, and more happenings from September 26-29
- By Brianna Wellen
- Tags: Arts, Do This, Noam Chomsky, Haymarket Books, Lincoln Lodge Starts a Revolution, Revolution Brewing, Lincoln Lodge, the Girl Talk, Hideout, Wicker Park Bucktown Dinner Crawl, Disco Dawn, Savage Smyth, the Steezus Tour, Flamenco Passion, Auditorium Theatre, Ensemble Espanol, I Am Trying to Break Your Heart, Music Box Theatre, Wilco

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Jan 6, 2016
Brewers recommend 16 beers to drink in 2016

Four Chicago brewers talk about which brews will be filling their glasses this year.
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, New Year, beer, breweries, Brant Dubovick, Corridor Brewery & Provisions, DryHop Brewers, The Clock Strikes 13, Hopslam Ale, Bell's, Le Seul III, Une Anee, Brian Taylor, Whiner Beer, Le Tub, The Plant, Outlier, Penrose Brewing, Foeder Saison, Perennial Artisan Ales, Dantalion Wild Dark Ale, Upland Brewing Company, Bryan Shimkos, Blue Island Beer Company, Lost Weekend, Blue Island, Chiberian Warmer, Arcade Brewery, Haymarket Pub & Brewery, Beerthday, Red Skull, Revolution Brewing, Mike Pallen, Mikerphone Brewing, Innocent Criminal, Mikerphone, Grand Cru, Flesk Brewing Company, Transient Artisan Ales, Smells Like Grahamma’s Tarts, Burn ’Em Brewing

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 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

Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Jul 11, 2014
Recommended
Former Top Cheftestant brings soulful, creative Korean to Avondale

Beverly Kim and husband Johnny Clark have opened a destination-worthy mom-and-pop—with a modern twist.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Restaurant Review, Parachute, Beverly Kim, Johnny Clark, Korean restaurants, Korean-American restaurants, Top Chef, Aria, Bonsoiree, ajummas, bibimbap, dolsot bibimbap, kale, duck eggs, foie gras, rice, nurungi, onions, gochuchang, eggs, kimchi, radish, peanuts, celery, pickles, bindaetteok, mung beans, pancakes, pork, black garlic, noodles, naengmyun, broth, lettuce, cucumbers, pine nuts, dumplings, mandu, mushrooms, asparagus, almonds, yogurt, crab, prawns, clams, rice cakes, baked potatoes, bing, bacon, scallions, blood, boudin noir, nam prik, spearmint, coconut, X'ian Famous Foods, Chinese mustard, yuzu, chile, olive oil, kampachi, ceviche, strawberries, fennel, dashi, wheat berries, beer, Revolution Brewing, Recommended

Best of Chicago, Food & Drink Jun 25, 2014
Readers' Poll
Best pub grub

Hopleaf
- Tags: Food & Drink, Best of Chicago 2014, best pub grub, Hopleaf, Revolution Brewing, Readers' Poll

Blogs, Bleader May 26, 2014
New proposed state distribution rules would choke the growth of Chicago's biggest craft brewers

Earlier this month the ILCC proposed rules that would throw a wrench in Revolution Brewing's expansion plans—but on the plus side, the public-comment period isn't over yet.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Josh Deth, Revolution Brewing, Susan Hofer, Pete Crowley, Haymarket, Solemn Oath, John Barley, Illinois Liquor Control Commission, ILCC, Richard Haymaker, ABDI, Associated Beer Distributors of Illinois, Bob Myers, Ashley Brandt, Freeborn and Peters LLP, rules, regulations, brewpub, distribution, Maryland Deathfest, Pseudogod, Wrathprayer, Diocletian, Beat Kitchen

Blogs, Bleader May 4, 2014
Reader's Agenda Sun 5/4: Architectural Artifacts auction, I Like Bike, and Dave McDonnell

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, May 4
- By Taylor Tolbert
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Architectural Artifacts, auction, I Like Bike, BFF Bikes, Comfy Fitness, Chainlink, Revolution Brewing, the Goddess and Grocer, Dark Matter Coffee, Dave McDonnell, Dave McDonnell Quartet

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 Feb 10, 2014
Video
Revolution celebrates another auspicious birthday with 4th Year Beer

Revolution's first bottled Belgian-style quad kicks off what's certain to be a momentous year for the rapidly expanding craft brewery.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Revolution Brewing, Josh Deth, 4th Year Beer, 4th Year Crazy Party, Belgian, quadrupel, quad, Jim Cibak, Une Annee, the Ruins of Beverast, Blood Vaults: The Blazing Gospel of Heinrich Kramer, Malleus Maleficarum, Video

Blogs, Bleader Nov 29, 2013
Beer, brick-oven pizza, and rafters at Iron Horse Ale House

Bells and whistles aside, an inoffensive, structurally sound addition to the far-northwest side
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Iron Horse Ale House, Norwood Park, Revolution Brewing, brick-oven pizza, Dogfish Head, Miller Lite, iron, rafters, Great Divide, pub, Miller Lite, Blackhawks

Blogs, Bleader Nov 18, 2013
The Festival of Wood and Barrel Aged Beer: Still completely ridiculous, still definitely great

The 214 entries at this year's FOBAB included beers aged in gin and Tabasco barrels, in what I'm pretty sure was a first for the festival.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, FOBAB, Festival of Wood and Barrel Aged Beer, ICBG, Illinois Craft Brewers Guild, Off Color, John Laffler, Jeremy Danner, Cory King, Tom Korder, Side Project, Fuzzy, Perennial, Lost Abbey, Sun King, Three Floyds, Pipeworks, New Belgium, Dark Horse, Revolution Brewing, Flat 12, Firestone Walker, Deschutes, Lost Abbey, Allagash, Goose Island, Pete Crowley, Bridgeport Art Center, Skyline Loft

Blogs, Bleader Oct 24, 2013
Reader's Agenda Thu 10/24: Bikecitement Night, Joey Bada$$ and Pro Era, and Disclosure

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Thursday, October 24
- By Jillian Sandler
- Tags: Do This, Arts, West Town Bikes, Bikecitement, Revolution Brewing, Joey Bada$$, Pro Era, Metro, the Underachievers, Ab-Soul, Chevy Woods, Statik Selektah, Disclosure, House of Blues, T. Williams

Blogs, Bleader Sep 9, 2013
A dark horse at Goose Island's Belgian Fest

You are hereby implored to try every beer you can find from Transient Artisan Ales of Lansing, Illinois, when they start showing up in Chicago next month.
- By Philip Montoro
- Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Goose Island Belgian Fest, Goose Island Clybourn, Atlas Brewing, Destihl, tripel, Halia, Belgian Cowboy, Cantaloupe Captain Red Crunch, Nectarine Alsatian, Haymarket, Mother Jones, Revolution Brewing, Tango, Jon Naghski, Pipeworks, Pineapple Bling, Gerrit Lewis, Transient Artisan Ales, Lansing, Chris Betts, One Trick Pony, Obelus, Romani, Asterisk, Une Annee, Devil's Reign, 18th Street, Chloe, Drew Fox, Gary Indiana. Elitist, Transient, Six Weeks Records, Bastard Feast, Positivism, Smash Therapy

Blogs, Bleader Jul 17, 2013
Floral squared: Two local hibiscus beers

Five Rabbit's Huitzi and Revolution Brewing's Rosa face off.
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Booze, Food & Drink, Five Rabbit, Huitzi, Revolution Brewing, Rosa, hibiscus beer

Best of Chicago, Food & Drink Jun 19, 2013
Readers' Poll
Best Pub Grub

Hopleaf
- Tags: Food & Drink, Best of Chicago 2013, Hopleaf, Revolution Brewing, pub grub, Readers' Poll

Blogs, Bleader Jun 8, 2013
Reader's Agenda Sat 6/8: The Ray Bradbury Festival, ComedySportz Theater, and a backyard BBQ bike bash

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Saturday, June 8
- By Tosten Burks
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Strawdog Theatre, Otherworld Theatre Company, Ray Bradbury, ComedySportz, Schubas, World Naked Bike Ride, Revolution Brewing, Backyard BBQ & Bike Bash

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

Blogs, Bleader Apr 26, 2013
Reader's Agenda Fri 4/26: C2E2, Chicago Anarchist Film Festival, and Wonka Ball 2013

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, April 26.
- By Hannah Lorenz
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo, C2E2, Kevin Smith, Dr. Who, Batman, Revolution Brewing, Galaxy Hero, McCormick Place-West, Chicago Anarchist Film Festival, Meztli Gallery, Cointelpro 101, Just Do It: A Tale of Modern Day Outlaws, Four Star Anarchist Organization, Township, Punk Rock Karaoke Chicago, Wonka Ball 2013, Circus Maximus, Architectural Artifacts

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