CHICAGO – Hop Butcher For The World, a Chicagoland-based brewing firm based in 2014 and identified for its hop-forward strategy to IPAs and fresh-to-retail distribution technique, plans to open its first public taproom on Nov. 10 within the former Half Acre Beer Firm facility at 4257 N. Lincoln Ave. in Chicago.
Hop Butcher bought the constructing and gear from Half Acre in 2021. For the reason that buy, Hop Butcher’s workforce has labored to safe allowing and transition into the area. Its purpose with renovations was to ship on a novel, branded expertise that the brewery’s followers count on, says co-owner Jeremiah Zimmer.
“Half Acre constructed an attractive area for drinkers to get pleasure from beer, so plenty of the muse was in place. Our purpose upon taking up the area was to inject an enormous dose of who we’re as a brewery,” Zimmer says. “Some updates act as a nod to our predecessors’ 10-year tenure within the area, whereas others goal to showcase the distinctive spirit of Hop Butcher and what we stand for as a brewery.”
Along with the taproom, the 13,000-square-foot facility features a separate retail storefront the place followers can buy merchandise and beer to-go, in addition to a totally practical manufacturing brewery supplying a lot of the beer obtainable within the taproom and hooked up retail area.
Hop Butcher additionally operates a larger-scale manufacturing brewery in Bedford Park, Sick. Its Lincoln Avenue brewery and taproom will permit Hop Butcher’s brewers to pilot new recipes and take a look at smaller-batch beers earlier than taking them into retail distribution.
“We’re excited to dive into new kinds and experimentation, one thing we beforehand didn’t have the potential to do,” says Hop Butcher co-founder Jude La Rose. “Hoppy lagers, experimental Belgian beers, hybrid kinds – you identify it. Now, we are able to kick out small batches
and get real-time suggestions from our most-devoted followers in our personal taproom, who will assist decide which beers deserve a broader viewers.”
Hop Butcher For The World will proceed to brew and self-distribute its beer to higher craft beer retailers all through Chicagoland — because it has since 2015.
For extra data or to coordinate an interview with Hop Butcher, please electronic mail Jeremiah at jeremiah@hopbutcher.com and/or Jude at jude@hopbutcher.com.
Hop Butcher For The World
Based in Chicago in 2014, Hop Butcher For The World brews a broad portfolio of hop ahead IPAs, flavorful lagers and daring stouts. Each week, the brewery self-distributes contemporary beer, usually solely hours or days within the can, from its lineup of over 250 totally different beers (and rising) to higher craft beer retailers all through Chicagoland and periodically to out-of-state markets corresponding to southern Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, California, New York, Boston, Florida, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Nashville and Portland, Ore. Since 2021, it has brewed its beers in a wholly-owned manufacturing brewery in Bedford Park and at its Lincoln Avenue brewery and taproom, which it acquired in Could 2021 from Half Acre Beer Firm.
