This Week's Beer Events & Socials: New Tasting Tome & New Rev 'Erb
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Here’s some fun news I spotted today, brought to us by what I believe to be the very first LinkedIn post I’ve ever shared in these emails:
Randy Mosher has another book coming out soon.
If the author of the legendary Tasting Beer is coming out with another book about tasting…a bunch of other stuff, well, that’s something that I’m interested in and I figured you would be too.
The other major development in the Chicagoland beer scene this week? Revolution Brewing officially entered the THC/CBD-drink space, with Reverb:
Get it? Reverb? Rev(olution h)erb? Pretty clever, honestly. (And now I get why
has been talking about grape flavors recently.) It’s odd thinking about Rev being late to a beverage space, given that they were one of the original craft beer pioneers of Chicagoland, but breweries like Hopewell and Marz have been leading the way there for a few years now. I assume there’s still space out there for another entry, especially for a brewery with as big of a footprint as Rev.Speaking of Marz, you can and should check out this week’s Beer Temple podcast for an interesting discussion between Marz’s Ed Marzewski and Rev’s Josh Deth on the topic.
Time for a poll!
At the risk of skewing the results, I will mention that I have a few THC beverages in the fridge … which have been sitting there, unopened, for weeks. I’ll get around to ‘em at some point.
What’s next in the not-beer-from-beermaker product release? Well, I’d keep an eye on this Stay Blue Water account that just popped up this week...
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This Friday / Starting Friday:
Tonight, the ICBG hosts Friday Night Flights at Gallagher Way with 30+ breweries hanging out by Wrigley Field. Tickets are available here.
Dovetail will pour some spontaneously fermented beer slushies at their Secret Garden for one night only, with $1 of each beer going to the Center on Halsted.
This weekend (through Sunday) Imperial Oak parties for their 11 year anniversary at Willow Springs.
In Madison, Working Draft Brewing hosts an all-weekend Czech Fest, and every beer is being poured from a side-pull faucet. (16 of ‘em!)
Saturday, June 7:
The Wisconsin Brewers Guild is hosting the Wisconsin Beer Lovers Festival from 12-5pm in Glendale with a whole bunch of breweries onhand.
Burn’Em Brewing is hosting PSYCHFEST 2025 this weekend with a dozen metal, doom and psychedelic bands playing all day - but check out this cool drone flight around and through their space even if you aren’t going.
Hopewell is hosting a City Lit curated book fair this afternoon called - and I love this name - Litty Litty Bang Bang.
Hop Lot is hosting a 10th anniversary party at their beer garden with live music and Moomers ice cream (and beer).
Phase Three Elmhurst is bringing some pups to their taproom from 12-3pm for a Paws & Pours adoption event.
In Grand Rapids, City Built Brewing hosts their La Cultura block party from 3-10pm to celebrate their eighth anniversary.
Sunday, June 8:
Sketchbook’s Evanston location is hosting Pride Outside from 5-8pm, including a drag performance, an art show and “five short science talks about queerness in nature.” Sounds fun!
Other Things Next Week:
It’s a week for golf! On Tuesday, the ICBG’s annual golf tournament at Prairie Landing Golf Club opens up to the public for the first time ever. Tickets are $175 per golfer.
Then on Friday, Macushla Brewing’s annual charity golf tournament takes place, honoring the late Molly Harris and benefitting the Molly Harris Memorial Scholarship.
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Shout out to all the breweries I saw celebrating Pride Month, including Half Acre, Spiteful, Hop District, Lakefront, Third Space, Modist (love this Pink Reaper Club artwork), (and this is not in any way a complete list of participating breweries, just the ones I spotted this week).