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The beer biz never sleeps at American Craft Beer. And here’s just some of what’s been happening in the beer world while you were drinking your way from the Christmas tree to 2024.
Other Half Brewing To Open New Brewery In Historic Chicago Theater
Brooklyn’s Other Half Brewing has announced plans to build a craft beer destination inside Chicago’s historic Ramova Theatre which dates back to 1929 and has been undergoing an extensive $23 million renovation.
Other Half Brewing, which already operates breweries in Philadelphia and Washington DC, will be opening the venue on the second floor of the classic movie house, in a space that amazingly was once a basketball gymnasium. And Other Half Ramova is going to be a serious beer destination with about 80 tap lines overall, 20 of them in the sleek modern taproom located above the theater in Chicago’s vibey Southside Bridgeport neighborhood.
“When we when started in New York, one of our big goals was to bring IPA to the East Coast,” Other Half co-founder Sam Richardson told Eater Chicago. “There wasn’t a lot of it at the time, and that’s kind of been our wheelhouse the whole time. We make a lot of different beer styles, but I think that the expectation is we’ll have IPAs, and in a venue like this also, we’ll be making lagers.”
Widely recognized as one of the most exciting breweries in New York, Other Half Brewing which launched in 2014 was an immediate hit attracting beer tourists from all over the country who waited in long lines and even camped out on the sidewalk outside the brewery for new releases.
Words to Drink By
“We could have a new Beatles. But we haven’t had one yet. There have been big acts since the Beatles, but not one that affected an entire generation and the world today.” – Bob Lefsetz, Music industry writer and media analyst
What’s All The Buzz About a Beer’s ABV?
We occasionally assume too much…like that the majority of our readers understand most of the beer terminology we use.
But since we’ve built an online empire on sometimes being wrong, here’s a quick primer on one beer acronyms we use all the time, ABV.
Unlike hard liquor which is measured by proof, beer’s alcohol content is most commonly measured by ABV— alcohol by volume. It’s not rocket science…this number simply lets you know what percentage of that beer you’re enjoying is alcohol.
Brewers take samples of beer as it ferments to see how much sugar the yeast is converting into alcohol. And since the amount of sugar in the mix directly impacts a brews eventual alcohol content, brewers sometimes tweak the batch to get to the final level of booziness they’re looking for.
Think of ABV as buzz management…When someone asks about a beer’s ABV…they’re commonly asking is how strong is this beer?
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