Afterthought Brewing

Small, family-run, saison-focused brewery with an emphasis on oak fermentation.

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@Ryan_on_Earth Absolutely true. We also have Andechs Spezial Helles on tap!

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It’s National Lager Day! Come by and enjoy a local or import lager alongside a saison or two, including our aptly-timed lagered saison. Open 12-9 PM.

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Happy Saison Friday! We’re here 2-9 PM 🍻

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St. Bernardus Christmas Ale is now on one of our guest lines until the end of the year!

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We are excited to introduce Lombard Lagered, a beer that we brewed with local Cascade hops from our friend Randy and then fermented cold with our house yeast blend before lagering for 8 weeks. The resulting beer is crisp with Pilsner malt and light floral, citrusy hop character.

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We’re celebrating French saison and Bière de Garde today with Thiriez Extra and Au Baron Cuvée des Jonquilles, two absolute classics. Thiriez is in bottles and small pours, and Jonquilles is now on tap!

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We were thrilled to find out that we were named amongst the favorite saison breweries in @CraftBeerBrew! Thanks to all who have supported us, and look forward to many more fun saison projects in the coming year.

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…aged it in a barrel that held mead with blackberries, blueberries, and black currents and had previously held gin. The tasting notes are bright berry, mild acidity, and honey with a touch of oak and gin spice.

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Honey Expression #2, a Bière de Garde aged in a berry mead barrel from our friends at @standardmeadery, is now on tap and available in bottles to go! This is a higher-ABV offering at 6.5% ABV. We took a light copper-colored Bière de Garde and…

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base to the next level with leaf Mosaic, Strata, and Belma alongside a hefty dose of bittering hops, leading to a beer that is bitter, dry, and full of citrus with some tropical notes. We also still have a bit of our version of Faible: Whole Cone with spent peaches! (2/2)

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Faible: Whole Cone is back on tap and available to go. Faible has always been inspired by some of our favorite European beers — think De La Senne Zinnebir and Taras Boulba, De Ranke XX Bitter, and Thiriez Extra — but with American hops. The whole cone version takes to the (1/2)

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The first in a new series of beers incorporating flowers & teas, Flowerfield #1 is a blend of beers with chamomile & lilac flowers and subsequently aged in a gin barrel. It’s dry, floral, & citrusy with up-front juniper and herbs that fade into fresh lilacs and oak.

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Happy Farmhouse Friday! Eighth Continent #4 — our Farmhouse IPA with Motueka & Nelson Sauvin — is flowing on tap and available in bottles to go. We promise that we are working to get more 330ml bottles so that we can offer 4-packs of this and other regular favorites 🍻🤞

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New lager alert! Now on tap is Andechs Spezial Hell, a festbier from our favorite German brewery, and also have bottles of their doppelbock. Spezial Hell is malt forward with bread crust and backing earthy hops.

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Tomorrow at 11 AM we will start the event for our Is/Was collaboration with a Q&A! We will have all four variants on draft and our two versions available to go. The Is/Was versions will be distributed around the Chicago area.

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In honor of one of the absolute original US farmhouse breweries and the upcoming holiday, for the next two weekends we will be featuring bottle pours of beers from @jollypumpkin!

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We are proud to now be serving Far Out Cool Pool, a hoppy lager collaboration between our friends at @RoaringTable and @HopButcher! We’re here from 12-6 PM on this #saisonsunday with plenty of saison, lager, and Belgian favorites.

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Now on tap and available in bottles to go!

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Introducing Eighth Continent #4, a Farmhouse IPA brewed with a hefty dose of Motueka and Nelson Sauvin hops and fermented in stainless with a blend of saison strains and Brettanomyces. The resulting beer is dry and citrusy with plenty of white grape with a light dose of honeydew.

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We are only 9 days from our event with Is/Was Brewing (10/23 with Q&A at 11 AM)! Mike and team killed it with the beer and label design for their version. While you can’t drink this until 10/23, you can be sure to stop by the taproom this weekend to drink plenty of saison 🍻