/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>12101825
Nah, the BCBS liners are mainly doing it for the spectacle. They meet up and trade. It's silly. You can still find this year's lineup in smaller liquor stores. I was just visiting my sister in a large suburb and we went to the local shop. They still had all of the line up on their shelf. The hype for bourbon barrel beer is dying slowly. It's very common and there are many excellent options. I just had a Stranahan's whiskey barrel aged stout from Brickstone that was leagues more memorable than bourbon county. Chicagoland has loads of excellent breweries. Some, like Mikerphone, do the california method because they're too small to distribute to shops. Their beer is top quality, but the liquor stores fane plenty of top quality beer as well.

I'm not shitting on cali, but i'm not sucking their cock either. I love this Alminac cherry sour, but I love this weisse just as much. (They also have a version with lactose and vanilla that's crack cocaine).

Shit on chicago if you want, there's plenty that deserves that, but our beer scene is excellent. Just as good as cali from my experiences there.