Illinois Craft Brewers Guild

Celebrate Illinois Craft Beer at the Oak Park Microbrew and Food Review

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The Eighth Annual
Festival of Wood and Barrel Aged Beer^{SM

Saturday, November 6, 2010}

The country's first and largest beer festival dedicated to the art of wood and barrel aging returns to the Chicago Journeyman Plumbers' Local Union 130 Stephen M. Bailey Auditorium, 1340 W. Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL on Saturday afternoon and evening, November 6. Stay tuned for event details and ticketing information.

View the results of the 2009 Festival here (PDF).
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Illinois Craft Brewers Guild Members Win 9 Medals at 2010 World Beer Cup®

The Guild played host to the world during the 2010 Craft Brewers Conference and also proved its mettle by winning nine medals at the biennial World Beer Cup. The winners:

Goose Island Beer Company: India Pale Ale (English-Style India Pale Ale) Gold
Goose Island Beer Company: Nut Brown Ale (American-Style Brown Ale ) Gold
Three Floyds Brewing: Behemoth (Imperial Red Ale) Gold
Goose Island Beer Company: Lolita (Fruit Beer) Silver
Crown Brewing: Industrial Porter (Brown Porter) Bronze
Flossmoor Station: Pullman's Reserve (Wood- and Barrel-Aged) Bronze
Goose Island Beer Company: Christmas Ale (American-Style Brown Ale) Bronze
Piece Brewery: Top Heavy Hefeweizen (South German-Style Hefeweizen) Bronze
Rock Bottom Chicago: Terminal Stout (American-Style Stout) Bronze

This year, 642 breweries from 44 countries and 47 U.S. states vied for awards with 3,330 beers entered in 90 beer style categories. The 2010 World Beer Cup eclipsed the record of the Brewers Association's own Great American Beer Festival^SM (GABF) to become the largest commercial competition ever.
2010 CBC Symposium Ale
The Illinois Craft Brewers Guild come together to brew the 2010 Symposium Ale for the Craft Brewers Conference. Our Symposium Ale is a blend of four different beers, a Russian Imperial Stout, a Scotch Ale, a Barleywine and an Imperial IPA. All four beers were aged in Woodford Reserve barrels before blending together and then bottled. The Hop Cast was invited along to document each step of the brewing process. For those lucky enough to be attending the CBC this year, they will get to try this very limited collaboration beer. Check out this video documenting the process:

Making Of The Symposium Ale from Hop Cast on Vimeo.

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Illinois Craft Brewers Guild members win medals at the Great American Beer Festival^SM, World Beer Cup®, and Festival of Wood and Barrel Aged Beer^SM