Our fourth installment of drinking more barrel-aged beers (MoBAB) at about the halfway point to FoBAB lifts off into orbit with four different styles aged in bourbon and whiskey barrels. Sipping these leads to talk about length of barrel stays, some cocktail inspirations, and the hopeful regular return of a once-mighty barrel program. Also, Ryan’s got an unexpected “kids in taprooms” take; we…

Join us as we celebrate saisons with our third annual Saisonathon event during Illinois Craft Beer Week! We’re switching things up a bit this year. Same amount of interesting and diverse saisons – many brewed locally – but at a new location!

Join us on Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at Forbidden Root beginning at 5 PM. All types of saisons will be on tap, from those fruited, to those barrel-aged, to…

Rare Fernetic to make a First Coast appearance

Forbidden Root Brewing Company beers have been available in Jacksonville for a while now, but the brewery’s unique Fernet-Branca inspired beer, Fernetic, has not made it south from Chicago – until now. In a press release, the brewery has announced that a limited amount – three kegs total – of the collaborative brew will hit Florida in three separate special tapings. Fernet-Branca is an Italian…

ABV Chicago’s 3rd Anniversary Party

We’ve made it through another year and so have you! So we’re gonna do what we always do and throw a party! Details: Date: February 4, 2016 Where: Beermiscuous, 2812 North Lincoln Avenue, Chicago IL 60657 Time: 6-11 PM Featuring beers from: Middle Brow Beer Co. Goose Island Clybourn – Cran Bruin Maplewood Brewery & Distillery Noon Whistle Forbidden Root Off Color Hop Butcher For the World Plus…

Botanicals add interesting flavors to Forbidden Root brews

In an ever-expanding craft beer field, uniqueness, and originality are highly-sought qualities. Chicago’s Forbidden Root Brewery certainly qualifies on all counts. Billed as Chicago’s first botanical brewery, Forbidden Root grew from an idea founder Robert Finkel had to create a true-brewed root beer to encompass the broader idea of botanic beers. Throughout history, beer has been a beverage that…