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Stories and experiences about fermentation, curated for you. Leave it to us • Subscribe to our Substack for pop-up dates • Chicago, IL.

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🍺🍺🍺 Thank you for joining us for @beerculturecenter’s screening of ROAD🍻HOUSE with curated beer tastings by @bieromakase 🍺🍺🍺

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What else is there to say about May other than it’s MAYFESTIVERSARY TIME BABY!! Kick off another legendary Chicago street fest season as we pal up with our neighbors at Begyle Brewing to raise money for the Friendship Center. (A lot more on that to come!)

Other May highlights include a S-T-A-C-K-E-D Mayfestiversary Secret Stage lineup headlined by Jon Langford and Kelly Hogan, plus the dive-bar soul of Phillip-Michael Scales; the release of our 10th Anniversary Lager; a Summer Saison Sunday co-hosted by Bier Omakase; and a lineup of pop-up partners to keep your bellies full.

BRING ON THE PATIO DAYS! 🌞

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Just a few things going on lately.....

Quit my job, major condo renovations, getting Mr. Jax adjusted to A LOT of changes, getting more involved locally, plus the obvious abundance of shows.

#concerts #livemusic #chicago #transupfront

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The Beer Culture Center heads to @musicboxchicago on April 30th for a special screening of everyone’s favorite dive bar epic: Road House. Step into its smoky, beer-soaked, neon-lit world where fists and beer bottles do the talking, the philosophy lands just right, and the line between good and evil is real. It’s the quintessential dive bar movie experience where every barstool is a front row seat to the chaos.

Before the first punch is thrown, we invite you to join us for a public (21+) beer tasting inspired by the rowdy spirit of the Double Deuce - drawing from the rituals, characters, and charm of dive bar culture. Our good friends at @bieromakase will present four tastings rooted in the kinds of places where stories unfold over a beer and spill out onto the big screen.

Be nice. Have a beer. Enjoy the show. 🎟️ 🔗 ⬆️ 🍻

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Getting excited for our next Liminal event, a collaboration with @bieromakase

These storytellers craft each event around curated fermented beverages. Give them a follow and check out more info about the event at the link in bio.

Wednesday, March 25th
6:30-8:30
In the studio of A.DeLane Design
must be 21+

A portion of the proceeds benefiting @beerculturecenter

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Come hang out….

*edit*
Loopholes is with Bier Omakase

Workshop with Velvet Stitch House is needlepoint, not cross stitch

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Pfäfflin and Solarte met at the peak of Chicago’s craft beer movement when they both worked for the Cicerone Certification Program in Ravenswood. Back then, there was a vibrant social scene centered around the craft beer and home-brewing movement, where drinkers gathered at beer dinners every time a brewery dropped something new, major events like the Festival of Wood and Barrel-Aged Beer, or monthly “First Thursday” brewer talks at the erstwhile Goose Island Brewpub.

“When we first landed in Chicago, there was this robust, lively, and social beer community,” says Pfäfflin, who came here after graduating from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a degree in agricultural journalism. “There was a lot of social interaction around beer at that time—and just excitement. It was beer that brought us together, but also being at this place that we met was probably key to our accumulation of professional experience.”

“We organically became drinking buddies,” says Solarte, who came to Chicago after teaching English for two years in Spain. “We had a lot of similar interests. We’re both really interested in the culture around beer, and drinking, and bar culture.”

Things look a lot different today. COVID shut down breweries and taprooms, and much of the social momentum in the scene shut down with it. This coincided with a general downturn in the craft beer industry that continues today. In 2025 alone, at least a half dozen local breweries and brewpubs closed their doors, not to mention the imminent relocation of the Siebel Institute of Technology, the more than 150-year-old brewing school whose alumni have included August Anheuser Busch III, August Pabst, John W. Stroh Jr., and countless brewers from all over the world since.

Read the full article at the link in our bio.

📸 Kirk Williamson
✍️ Mike Sula

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If you aren’t following Bier Omakase, the beer culture event series by @etralos and @jennypf, you’re missing out on the single most exciting thing in Chicago brewing. Full dang stop. With the knowledge of an encyclopedia and the hospitality of your Midwestern best friends laughing with you at a fish fry, JP and Shana make beer culture global, historical, accessible, and fun as helllllll. Our beer culture is greater, by some orders of magnitude, than the gatekeepers and the Untappd check-ins have made it seem. Bier Omakase is an absolutely thrilling addition to Chicago, and if you’re any kind of a person who likes how this sounds, you’ve got to get over to their Substack and see where they’re popping up next.

Last night was the very first ever sit-down dinner service in Crust Fund Pizza history. Couldn’t imagine a better way to do it. You all raised an astounding $2,108 to fund new faces and new voices in our beloved brewing and distilling third spaces through @mjfbrewdistill.

Back soon. Like, soon soon. Keep an eye on your inboxes.

Photos by the stupendous @mulvatronn

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Pizza, dips, and garage ambience brought to you by @nachosandlager. Garage beers and good aura farmed by @bieromakase.

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What is sleep? Summer is summering

#summer #livemusic #broadway #solotravel #boatlife

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It's been a rough year so far, mentally and physically, but I've managed to find some relief in live music, craft beer, unicorns, puppies, $45 vending machine time capsules, first walkabout of spring, friends, and lots of quality TV time with my boy.

#livemusic #queerjoy #chicagoinwinter #nonbinary #trans

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a little @bieromakase BTS

just a few spots left for class of 88 🍺

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