TAPROOM EVENTS & TOURS

Music Bingo with Ben
Apr
30

Music Bingo with Ben

Every other Wednesday, or thereabouts, our taproom manager Ben hosts Music Bingo from 6-8pm. The premise is fun and simple—each round is variations of a theme, and you must match snippets of songs to your squares. Say, for example, the theme is Umlauts. You better brush up on your Björk, Mötorhead, and Blue Öyster Cult.

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Sip n Stitch
Apr
30

Sip n Stitch

Our bartender and tour guide Liz is also co-owner of Cogs Cycles and Yarns, a very cool bike-slash-knitting store on the Northwest side.

Once a month, Liz is brings her expertise in knitting to the taproom, and hosts a Sip and Stitch! Get cozy, bring a project and hang out with other knitters (and get 15% off your tab), or learn something new and book a lesson from Liz (she’ll bring all the materials you need to take home).

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BREWERY TOUR
May
3

BREWERY TOUR

Each 90-minute-ish brewery tour includes three .3L beers (that’s nearly a liter of beer!) and insight into our traditional brewing processes. You will get to participate in a water tasting (bet you didn’t see that coming!), a hop rubbing, and malt tasting, while exploring the unique features in our brewery, including (spoilers!) our coolship and 115-year-old copper kettle from Weihenstephaner (that’s the oldest brewery in the world).

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Mom Market
May
3

Mom Market

Show ma how much you love her at our annual Mother's Day market with a gift from more than 20 local artists and makers! From candles to ceramics, to sweets and small delights, there's something for every mom within our talented round-up of vendors.

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Magic By Brielle
May
6

Magic By Brielle

Joining us in the taproom is MAGIC BY BRIELLE, bringing “How’d she do that?!” table-side illusions straight to your bar seat. A Chicago-based magician and “Penn & Teller: Fool Us” alum, Brielle is helping revive tavern magic, a close-up style born right here in Chicago, with performances at spots like Beard & Belly and Long Room.

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Summer Hopfenlager Release and Gravity Keg Tapping
May
8

Summer Hopfenlager Release and Gravity Keg Tapping

You want a new porch pounder for the longer, warmer days? We got you. Join us for the release of SUMMER HOPFENLAGER, the latest in our seasonal releases of lagers that explore the fun, wide world of hops. This version showcases Vista and Strata hops, for this tropically-bent pale lager. Gravity keg tapping at 5pm.

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BREWERY TOUR
May
10

BREWERY TOUR

Each 90-minute-ish brewery tour includes three .3L beers (that’s nearly a liter of beer!) and insight into our traditional brewing processes. You will get to participate in a water tasting (bet you didn’t see that coming!), a hop rubbing, and malt tasting, while exploring the unique features in our brewery, including (spoilers!) our coolship and 115-year-old copper kettle from Weihenstephaner (that’s the oldest brewery in the world).

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Music Bingo with Ben
May
14

Music Bingo with Ben

Every other Wednesday, or thereabouts, our taproom manager Ben hosts Music Bingo from 6-8pm. The premise is fun and simple—each round is variations of a theme, and you must match snippets of songs to your squares. Say, for example, the theme is Umlauts. You better brush up on your Björk, Mötorhead, and Blue Öyster Cult.

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Bumbu Roux Pop-Up
May
16

Bumbu Roux Pop-Up

​Bumbu Roux is a unique culinary venture by chef Chris Reed, blending his Indonesian and Creole heritage into a harmonious menu, with the likes of the pork sambal po’boy and seafood gumbo. We welcome them to the taproom for the first time for a weekend of pop-ups!

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BREWERY TOUR
May
17

BREWERY TOUR

Each 90-minute-ish brewery tour includes three .3L beers (that’s nearly a liter of beer!) and insight into our traditional brewing processes. You will get to participate in a water tasting (bet you didn’t see that coming!), a hop rubbing, and malt tasting, while exploring the unique features in our brewery, including (spoilers!) our coolship and 115-year-old copper kettle from Weihenstephaner (that’s the oldest brewery in the world).

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Bumbu Roux Pop-Up
May
17

Bumbu Roux Pop-Up

​Bumbu Roux is a unique culinary venture by chef Chris Reed, blending his Indonesian and Creole heritage into a harmonious menu, with the likes of the pork sambal po’boy and seafood gumbo. We welcome them to the taproom for the first time for a weekend of pop-ups!

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Windy City Alphorn Workshop Chamber Concert
May
17

Windy City Alphorn Workshop Chamber Concert

Join us at the brewery for an afternoon performance by the Windy City Alphorn Workshop! While traditionally used by shepherds and herders to communicate across distances in the Alps, these days alphorns are probably more recogized from those iconic Riiiicolaaaa commercials. But there so much more to this brass instrument than that—Here's your chance to get up close with this part of German Alpine culture right here in Chicago.

Each ticket includes one .5L pour of Dovetail beer to enjoy during the performance! GET YOUR TICKET HERE.

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Music Bingo with Ben
May
28

Music Bingo with Ben

Every other Wednesday, or thereabouts, our taproom manager Ben hosts Music Bingo from 6-8pm. The premise is fun and simple—each round is variations of a theme, and you must match snippets of songs to your squares. Say, for example, the theme is Umlauts. You better brush up on your Björk, Mötorhead, and Blue Öyster Cult.

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Sip n Stitch
May
28

Sip n Stitch

Our bartender and tour guide Liz is also co-owner of Cogs Cycles and Yarns, a very cool bike-slash-knitting store on the Northwest side.

Once a month, Liz is brings her expertise in knitting to the taproom, and hosts a Sip and Stitch! Get cozy, bring a project and hang out with other knitters (and get 15% off your tab), or learn something new and book a lesson from Liz (she’ll bring all the materials you need to take home).

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BREWERY TOUR
May
31

BREWERY TOUR

Each 90-minute-ish brewery tour includes three .3L beers (that’s nearly a liter of beer!) and insight into our traditional brewing processes. You will get to participate in a water tasting (bet you didn’t see that coming!), a hop rubbing, and malt tasting, while exploring the unique features in our brewery, including (spoilers!) our coolship and 115-year-old copper kettle from Weihenstephaner (that’s the oldest brewery in the world).

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BREWERY TOUR
Jun
7

BREWERY TOUR

Each 90-minute-ish brewery tour includes three .3L beers (that’s nearly a liter of beer!) and insight into our traditional brewing processes. You will get to participate in a water tasting (bet you didn’t see that coming!), a hop rubbing, and malt tasting, while exploring the unique features in our brewery, including (spoilers!) our coolship and 115-year-old copper kettle from Weihenstephaner (that’s the oldest brewery in the world).

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BREWERY TOUR
Jun
14

BREWERY TOUR

Each 90-minute-ish brewery tour includes three .3L beers (that’s nearly a liter of beer!) and insight into our traditional brewing processes. You will get to participate in a water tasting (bet you didn’t see that coming!), a hop rubbing, and malt tasting, while exploring the unique features in our brewery, including (spoilers!) our coolship and 115-year-old copper kettle from Weihenstephaner (that’s the oldest brewery in the world).

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BREWERY TOUR
Jun
21

BREWERY TOUR

Each 90-minute-ish brewery tour includes three .3L beers (that’s nearly a liter of beer!) and insight into our traditional brewing processes. You will get to participate in a water tasting (bet you didn’t see that coming!), a hop rubbing, and malt tasting, while exploring the unique features in our brewery, including (spoilers!) our coolship and 115-year-old copper kettle from Weihenstephaner (that’s the oldest brewery in the world).

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BREWERY TOUR
Jun
28

BREWERY TOUR

Each 90-minute-ish brewery tour includes three .3L beers (that’s nearly a liter of beer!) and insight into our traditional brewing processes. You will get to participate in a water tasting (bet you didn’t see that coming!), a hop rubbing, and malt tasting, while exploring the unique features in our brewery, including (spoilers!) our coolship and 115-year-old copper kettle from Weihenstephaner (that’s the oldest brewery in the world).

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KÖLSCH NIGHT
Sep
7

KÖLSCH NIGHT

Enjoy an evening of our nationally-recognized Kölsch-style service.

Our taproom will turn into a bierstube à la Köln, where we will serve you 200mL stange of Kölsch until you say “Stop.”

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Franconian Night
Apr
26

Franconian Night

At our beer hall on Saturday, April 26, we’ll showcase the beers we make that reflect this region of Germany—Rauchbier and Lager. Rauchbier, of course, being the famous, smokey beer of Bamberg.

Also at our Franconian Beer Hall, we’ll also showcase a couple of the region's delicacies with our friends at Beard and Belly: The Coburger Bratwurst (we first grilled these up at our Holiday Market last year) and the Bamberg-style onion.

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BREWERY TOUR
Apr
26

BREWERY TOUR

Each 90-minute-ish brewery tour includes three .3L beers (that’s nearly a liter of beer!) and insight into our traditional brewing processes. You will get to participate in a water tasting (bet you didn’t see that coming!), a hop rubbing, and malt tasting, while exploring the unique features in our brewery, including (spoilers!) our coolship and 115-year-old copper kettle from Weihenstephaner (that’s the oldest brewery in the world).

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KÖLSCH NIGHT
Apr
19

KÖLSCH NIGHT

Enjoy an evening of our nationally-recognized Kölsch-style service.

Our taproom will turn into a bierstube à la Köln, where we will serve you 200mL stange of Kölsch until you say “Stop.”

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BREWERY TOUR
Apr
19

BREWERY TOUR

Each 90-minute-ish brewery tour includes three .3L beers (that’s nearly a liter of beer!) and insight into our traditional brewing processes. You will get to participate in a water tasting (bet you didn’t see that coming!), a hop rubbing, and malt tasting, while exploring the unique features in our brewery, including (spoilers!) our coolship and 115-year-old copper kettle from Weihenstephaner (that’s the oldest brewery in the world).

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GRODZISKIE Release Day
Apr
17

GRODZISKIE Release Day

Join us for the release of Grodziskie with a gravity keg tapping at 5pm!

Cool and refreshing, this soft summer beer goes down nice and easy. Pale straw in color, with a spirited effervescence, Grodziskie is the specialty beer of its namesake town in Poland. More carbonated than Hefeweizen and lower in alcohol (3.8%), this 100% smoked wheat beer features light, citrus-like overtones with just a surprising hint of spice and smoke in the backnotes. 

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BREWERY TOUR
Apr
12

BREWERY TOUR

Each 90-minute-ish brewery tour includes three .3L beers (that’s nearly a liter of beer!) and insight into our traditional brewing processes. You will get to participate in a water tasting (bet you didn’t see that coming!), a hop rubbing, and malt tasting, while exploring the unique features in our brewery, including (spoilers!) our coolship and 115-year-old copper kettle from Weihenstephaner (that’s the oldest brewery in the world).

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Saison Release Day
Apr
10

Saison Release Day

Join us for the release of Saison with a gravity keg tapping at 5pm!

A straightforward nod to the Hainaut stalwart that captivated American brewers and beer drinkers when it arrived in the US in the 1980s. Brewed with 100% Pilsner malt, French Strisselspalt and Hallertau Blanc hops, and an expressive Belgian yeast strain, this beer is a rustic expression of straw and hat, grass and white grape aromas, while open-fermentation nurtures the notes of bubblegum and black pepper. A bright and dry beer for the new season. 

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BREWERY TOUR
Apr
5

BREWERY TOUR

Each 90-minute-ish brewery tour includes three .3L beers (that’s nearly a liter of beer!) and insight into our traditional brewing processes. You will get to participate in a water tasting (bet you didn’t see that coming!), a hop rubbing, and malt tasting, while exploring the unique features in our brewery, including (spoilers!) our coolship and 115-year-old copper kettle from Weihenstephaner (that’s the oldest brewery in the world).

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Malt Row Opening Part at Gman Tavern
Apr
4

Malt Row Opening Part at Gman Tavern

Baseball is back (can you tell we're excited?)—and so is the Malt Row Opening Day Party! To celebrate the Chicago Cubs home opener, the breweries of Malt Row are teaming up for another party in Wrigleyville. Join us at Gman Tavern on Friday, April 4 for beer made just up-the-street from Wrigley Field and a performance by Chicago's legendary Opening Day last band standing, Waco Brothers! No ticket is necessary, but RSVPs encouraged. This is our year!

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BREWERY TOUR
Mar
29

BREWERY TOUR

Each 90-minute-ish brewery tour includes three .3L beers (that’s nearly a liter of beer!) and insight into our traditional brewing processes. You will get to participate in a water tasting (bet you didn’t see that coming!), a hop rubbing, and malt tasting, while exploring the unique features in our brewery, including (spoilers!) our coolship and 115-year-old copper kettle from Weihenstephaner (that’s the oldest brewery in the world).

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