Middle Brow Beer Co.

a community beer company. trying to brew good beer. and do good deeds. in chicago, il. come help us. So, what's in it for the winner? Well, first of all, prestige.

Some bloggers recently humbled us with their attention:

http://goodbeerhunting.com/blog/2013/5/13/middle-brow-brewing-humility-in-the-making

http://thegirlandherbeer.com/2013/01/middle-brow-brewing-gets-charitable/

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Each month we'll throw a homebrewing contest, and the winning recipe will be commercially brewed and distributed to local bars and bottleshops, in both bombers and kegs. Ea

ch contest will revolve around a particular theme or style, adhering somewhat to the BJCP guidelines, but also straying from them on occasion--because we all know as homebrewers, brewing is about experimenting and being creative. For example, the style for the first contest is a "winter warmer," but Christmas ales, old ales and similar fruit/spice beers will be allowed as well. We’re going to do a best-in-show selection, and then a few weeks later it'll be on tap and shelves throughout Chicago and some neighboring suburbs. Oh and some cash, to the extent we make any money at all. And they'll even get their picture on the label (better yet, a cartoon drawing of their picture). And, in any event, we sort of started the beer company backwards: we're a couple beer nerds with unfulfilling desk jobs and bleeding hearts who wanted to "give something back to the community," as they say in after-school specials. After lots of brainstorming, we finally linked our two passions and decided to raise money for charities by brewing and selling homebrewed beers. So, we'll be giving half of whatever money we make to local charities. As you're well aware, we can't have a homebrewing contest without homebrewers. So we're asking for your help. We would be pretty bowled over if you shared our page (www.facebook.com/middlebrow) and Twitter account (www.twitter.com/MiddleBrowBeer) with your friends, homebrewing pals, and other like-minded beer nerds, where they'll be able to learn more about our company and our contests. If the community responds favorably to the idea, we hope one day to open our own brewing space, a sort of co-op brewery that will continue the same “you as the brewer” ethos. But that’s a distant dream… In the meantime, let’s hold some cool events, try some delicious homebrews, and talk shop with our fellow beer nerds. Thanks, and see you guys around!

01/31/2020

our 8th 1st birthday party! holy f! look at this lineup!!!! ... come sneak a wild and special beer. and a once-in-a-lifetime pizza pie.

2019 Chicago Brewery Bracket: West – Rd. 2

03/15/2019

It's back! Take a moment to vote in the The Hop Review's Chicago Brewery Bracket. Cheers to all our pals in the running and all the readers who make it light and smiley!

2019 Chicago Brewery Bracket: West – Rd. 2 WEST SIDE, CHICAGO The Hop Review is excited for the return of the Readers' Choice Chicago Brewery Bracket, and this year is bigger and better than ever with 64 breweries from the city and surrounding suburbs battling for the crown. The West is an embarrassment of brewing riches, and home to argu

03/14/2019

SPECIAL MOMENT: this hip dad from the early 80s brews our beer. his first one at our brewpub, a lithuanian grisette called *MINER LIT*, is finished. it’s fu***ng beautiful: it tastes like someone dragged a sweet lime through potting soil. like when you realized the ground smells good. we’ll be releasing it tomorrow night. at . at 5p. limit: reasonable.

With Bungalow, Middle Brow Is Building a Home for Social Justice

03/06/2019

Thank you October!

With Bungalow, Middle Brow Is Building a Home for Social Justice The owners of this socially conscious Chicago brewery take aim at inequality by looking inward with their new taproom.

02/03/2019

we sold out of all of our bread and pizza last night at 930p! ... so we made a bunch more for tonight, and then sold out of all of that at 638p!!! it’s been a whirlwind of an opening weekend here... but we still got a whole house full of MIDDLE BROW BEERS! plz come through... we can’t feed you, but we can still take real good care of you.