#Best beers from hop butcher brewery license#
“We applied for and received our self-distribution license for Wisconsin and one of my early ideas was to release a Wisconsin-only beer, which at one point was going to be Blazed Orange. Zimmer told me Blazed Orange was originally destined for being consumed on Wisconsin soil.
So good, in fact, that I tasked some friends visiting Chicago recently to try to track down another four-pack for me. “So, even though our beers weren’t opaque and mega-super-duper-ultra dry hopped at the time, we were all about the hop-first mentality from the get-go.”īlazed Orange Milkshake was one of the four beers I was able to sample, and it is easily the truest and most satisfying Creamsicle reference I’ve ever consumed in beer form. “Our first commercial release was actually a black rye IPA, which was followed by a hoppy brown,” Zimmer said. I chatted with Zimmer via email to learn a little more about its hoppy lineup, which if you trace it back to South Loop’s origins, predates the current haze craze. Galaxy Bowl and Double Grid are the most recent two, but just prior to those was a milkshake version of its Blazed Orange hazy IPA. The Chicago beer forums have been abuzz with talk about Hop Butcher releases over the last few weeks. And then I came home a couple weeks back to find a box sitting on my front step, and inside were two mixed four-packs courtesy of Hop Butcher co-founder and owner Jeremiah Zimmer. I’d seen tweets from Milwaukee shops announcing limited supply of Hop Butcher beers, and felt a little envious. I’d seen Hop Butcher cans on store shelves in Chicago, but hadn’t taken the plunge. (He never once mentions a breeze of any sort.) That poem also gave a much more interesting name to what was originally Chicago’s South Loop Brewing Company: Hop Butcher for the World. His poem “ Chicago” gave the city its second-most famous nickname, the City of Broad Shoulders. That’s certainly what Carl Sandburg liked about it.
And isn’t its dusky industrial spirit part of what people like about it? I like Chicago! A lot of people like Chicago. But that Chicago line has been bugging me. It’s a catchy track, with shifts from verse to bridge to chorus so distinct in personality, I feel like I’m listening to Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic in song form. I’ve been listening to “ Plastic Skeletons” a lot lately. “Plastic Skeletons,” Jealous of the BirdsĪnd having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them:Ĭome and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.įlinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities
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