Metropolitan Brewing

Greetings, all! Due to the large number of emails, Facebook posts, and Tweets requesting info about tours, I thought it might be wise of me ...

Nothing will stop us from brewing beer. Not even a historical midwestern snowstorm that has pretty much the entire city of Chicago shut down...

When Doug and I moved to Chicago in 1999, our first priority was to seek out the beer crowds. As you may know, Chicago is loaded with beer l...

Summer is here, if our beer sales have anything to do with it. Krankshaft and Flywheel more than doubled in sales over the past 2 months. W...

This past week our filter failed on us. Hard. Thankfully, we have a friend whose superheroism never ceases to amaze. Our good pal and reliab...

In my everlasting ambition to pull my crap together, streamline my workload, and spend more time frisbee golfing, I've finally managed t...

Wednesday night, April 8th, we'll be drinking Metro at Northside Bar and Grill , 1635 N Damen, Chicago. As usual, we'll be giving ou...

Two weeks ago, we had our second tapping at Bottom Lounge. As always, much fun was had by all. Check out the photos here . This week, we hav...

If you didn't join us for our very first tapping and launch party at LunaR Brewing Co. in Villa Park, well... you better have a good exc...

Last week, Karl Klockars from Chicagoist interviewed me about opening our brewery in Chicago, lagers, and how many awesome bars we have here...

Hey Villa Park Suburbanites! Come join us for our first official launch party at LunaR Brewing Co ., 54 E. St. Charles Rd., Villa Park. The ...

Lego Beer Song!

First, we're on tap! Find Metro beer at... Hopleaf Bar , 5148 N Clark St, Chicago Handlebar Bar & Grill , 2311 W North Ave, Chi...

Yesterday was our first brew day, people! We offered a play-by-play account on Twitter and Facebook all evening, so some of you were sorta t...

While in Germany studying the most holy craft of brewing beer, the Dugg attended Brau Beviale - one of the largest beverage industry trade ...

More press, people. Marty Nutley at MetromixTV in Chicago did us an incredible service by making us look good. And he did it on TV. Behold ...

If you don't like beer, have a problem with music that is best played loud, get queasy at the site of gratuitous vomiting, and hate Mont...

Our website and blog are two casualties of the speed and ferociousness of a business start-up. Oh, how we fantasize about processing photos,...

Ever since this came out, our email accounts have been overflowing with kind wishes, congratulations, and anticipatory messages from thirst...

We're nearing the end of the 2008 beer fest season. Our best beer fest season, for sure! Okay, this was our first season, but still... w...

Yesterday, Friday the 15th, Bill Murray opened Chicago's 50th annual Air & Water Show by doing a tandem sky dive with the U.S. Army...

The Dugg and I have been attending beer fests for more than 12 years. In that time, we've learned some very important tricks and lessons...

Starting a brewery requires a lot of equipment. Big stuff. Shiny. Some of our brewery toys are new; the brewhouse and several fermenters. Bu...

Look! Photos of the space ! We'll be updating this page (or adding pages of photos) as we go so you may all share in the glory of constr...

If you were to judge by our blog alone, it would seem that we've been lounging around, popping bon bons over the past weeks. Probably th...

Top-notch friends and total beer geeks Russ and Leah presented us with a bottle of Schlitz at the Beerfly Alleyfight held on May 17th. Whoo...

Pabst has decided to revive a more than 30-year old formula of Schlitz . The new-old product is packaged in bottles and promoted with a hea...

Fun with Photoshop filters! I liked this one because the food looks like those silly painted styrofoam chunks they used as "alien"...

... an excellent point by brewer Vaune Dillmann of Mt. Shasta Brewing Company, home of Weed Ales and Lagers . Their slogan, "Try Legal ...

Early warning rumblings gave way to the sad truth this week: Goose Island will be closing it's pub at North/Clybourn here in Chicago. Cl...

Starting a brewery during a hops crisis requires us to keep our proverbial ears to the ground (eyes to the interwebs) and pounce on opportun...

Our friends at the Drinking and Writing Brewery took some time out to talk with us at this year's Rockfest, held at Rock Bottom - Chica...

I read somewhere that "brewers should always be seen drinking a beer, but never be seen drunk." Heh. Whoops.

Our "pre-production" phase officially began April 1st. This refers to the 6-month period during which we are allowed to spend our ...

Humans did not discover yeast and harness it to do our bidding. It's the other way around.

Hands off the hops, Tom's. We need them in our beer, not our armpits.

For Facebook fun, I created some Metro jpg bumper stickers. Please feel free to copy and paste these on any website you like. Take! Take!

Passion. Opinions. Enthusiasm. The guts to get up and make a speech after having a couple of pints. These are just a few of the characterist...

Anyone who's had more than small-talk conversation with me knows that I get touchy when women and men are herded into different camps. ...

If you've ever wished that you had your own pub - not to make oodles of money or because you're hospitable - simply because you jus...

It's not about being in the right place at the right time. We've learned that it's best to be everywhere, all the time.

You know what I want to see? I want to see Jack Black and Jack White do a music project together.

Negra Modelo Dark Beer Cerveceria Modelo, S.A. DE C.V., Mexico, D.F. This beer has corn adjuncts as per the Dugg and a rater on Beer a dvoca...