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Midwest Maifest brings together some of the best local breweries, wineries and distilleries

Maifest is a traditional German Festival marking the end of the long dark winter and the beginning of warm weather and springtime. It’s a time of reawakening and joy! Best of all, it’s a fun reason […]

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Urban Chestnut to debut new Big Shark Grapefruit Radler April 1

The legend of the Radler dates back nearly a century to post World War I Germany, when an innkeeper named Franz Xaver Kugler, opened a tavern and tried to capitalize on the newest craze of bicycling […]

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This years’ Craftbeer.com list of best beer bars features one of our best local breweries

Sorry if you already saw this, but it just crossed into my world. Craftbeer.com’s annual list of the 50 best beer bars in the U.S. is out, featuring one beer bar from each state. Since […]

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Get ‘buzzd’ with Old Bakery and their new Rum Barrel-aged Belgian Quadrupel

It just seems like yesterday. One of my first articles posted on this blog back in 2015, was about the new brewery in Alton, Illinois. The brewery, Old Bakery Beer Company was unique in that it […]