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Vinepair Brewery to Watch # 1 – Roaring Table Brewing Company

Vinepair came out with an infographic on U.S. breweries to watch in 2025. First off, congratulations to Smog City Brewing right here in Los Angeles for making the cut but let’s head east to Illinois and Lake Zurich specifically to visit Roaring Table Brewing Company.

Here are some fine choices for a first taster flight…

Closer Apart – unfiltered Zwickel Pilsner – Creamy • Floral • Mickey Finn’s Collaboration

Holiday Romance – country lager – Creamy Malts • Passion Fruit • Hayfields

Redbird Bitter – English Pale ale with Simcoe and Krush hops – Shortbread • Strawberries • Sessionable

Vienna – Austrian-Style Lager – Dark Bread • Nutty • Crisp

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Go to N/A?

Still on the market for a really good (and consistent) Non-Alcoholic beer?  Well, I found another one, this time in Illinois in Go Brewing.

They have a Witbier, hazy IPA, pilsner, IPA and a nitro coffee N/A beer amongst other members only beers.

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Best of # 1 – Hop Butcher for the World

I looked through the Best of listed from Craft Beer & Brewing magazines lists (organized by barrel size) and plucked out three breweries to highlight this month, starting us off is Hop Butcher for the World.

Hailing from Darien, Illinois and taking their name from poet Carl Sandburg this brewery which is lauded in the less than 15K barrels category has very distinctive branding.

Here are the beers that I would try first and the hops in each beer for this hop-centric brewery…

Supreme Being Pilsner – Saaz, Select & Monroe

New Oklahoma Pale Ale – Barbe Rouge & Mosaic

Lush Terrain IPA – Mosaic, Wai-iti, Motueka, Waimea & Moutere

Blazed Orange DIPA – Citra & Strata

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World Beer Cup 2010

Looks like my adopted state of California ran away with 45 medals in Chicago and my home state of Oregon was 2nd with 13. With the Trailblazers beating the Lakers yesterday, I think we are even.

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For a great statistical (yes, numbers and math) round-up, check out the great Brookston Beer Bulletin HERE.

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Archer Liquors

Whenever I feel a hankering for something different than what is in my local go to beer stores, I start searching the internet to see who ships and if they have something that I haven’t had before. Usually I end up ordering from Liquid Solutions (which is great) or from my parents (which is great because they charge way less).
For my Holiday beer tasting I wanted something really new and luckily I found Archer Liquors. They are based in Illinois and they have a really cool selection of stuff plus the people there are really nice.

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