This content was originally published by The Hop Review, a digital magazine that joined the Hop Culture family in March 2020.
This piece was written by Tom White.
The first day of Fall brought more controversial news to the brewing industry this week, as well as plenty to talk about in the local Chicago scene. In this week’s Hoplinks, one more brewery takes the cash, a chef brews beers, D-Town gets another beer option, and we get a look inside the Minds.
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WEST LOOP, CHICAGO – Cruz Blanca, the upcoming brewery and restaurant from celebrity chef Rick Bayless, has been pushed back to the spring of 2016. Opening on the increasingly crowded Randolph Street, Bayless promises “a completely new concept that you’ve never seen before,” when it finally premieres next year. [Eater Chicago]
LOS ANGELES, CA – And down goes another craft brewery, this time LA’s Golden Road Brewing, which today announced that it would complete a buyout from Anheuser-Busch by the end of the year. This continues a trend we wrote about last week and marks the fifth craft brewery swept up by AB since 2011. [Brewbound]
DETROIT, MI – The Motor City is getting its first craft beer store? How it’s taken this long for Michigan’s biggest city to give its residents a go-to spot for good beer is unknown, but 8 Degrees Plato, opening in Midtown, sounds like a must visit on your next trip to Detroit. [Midland Daily News]
WEST LOOP, CHICAGO – If you attended Goose Island’s 312 Block Party last weekend, you may have noticed a giant sign on a nearby building proclaiming “Like Minds Brewing.” The Chicago Tribune got an inside look at the displaced from Milwaukee brewery and their culinary inspired beers that will soon be on tap around town. [Chicago Tribune]
THE HOP REVIEW – Have you checked out our Comprehensive Brewery List of Chicagoland lately? There have been a lot of additions, many of them made by you, our readers. Take a look and let us know if we’re missing your local haunt or have heard whispers of any upcoming projects in our every expanding local industry.
Photograph by Jack Muldowney