Thunder & Son

The temperature dive is Mother Nature's way of saying "go ahead, fellas, brew some big beers. " Who are we to tempt Mother Nature?

So we brew the Tonka truck of brown beers, Thunder & Son Brown Ale.

We just finished the first of four mashes for this 30bbl brew. For those not steeped in geekery, that means this beer is going to be a real chunker, 12+% abv.

We'll need some time to wrangle this beer into bomber bottles and kegs, but it should land right about the time the frost does.

Half Acre Beer Co

Chicago, IL

Thanks to Phineas X Jones for helping to bring our bizarre visual concepts to life.

Brewery Tables

We've been folding, unfolding, moving, sliding and beating up folding tables in the brewery for a while now. They're functional, but look like crap and are less than what we'd like. This weekend, with help of an old friend that hails from the east, we're constructing new tables made with things that were either found or left in the building when we go it.

These will be burly tables.

Half Acre Beer Co

Chicago, IL

New Stainless

Today the building sucked up another tank. This is the second of the series of 60bbl tanks that we're installing. Next one comes early December. Once we get this tank online, we're brewing a new / large beer into it - and this is exciting.

Cheers,

Half Acre Beer Co

Chicago, IL

Wake Of The Flood

We've been monkeying around with a new beer called Wake Of The Flood over the last few weeks. The goal was to lean on some rye malt with this beer with a flash of pilsner malt, back it up with some crystal hops and serve up our take on a harvest beer. We've yet to complete it, but we just pulled a sample from the fermenter and it's tasting solid.

Fall is in full force so this beer will drop at a time when it can be fully appreciated. So strap on your autumnal gear and hit the woods with this one.

We'll release it Friday when the store opens (12pm)

This is draft only, so bring your growler so we top you off with this fall beer.

Cheers,

Half Acre Beer Co

Chicago, IL

Beer & Democracy

This dude collided the birthplace of democracy and Half Acre.

Nice.

Half Acre Beer Co

Chicago, IL

A Formidable Gang

Thanks to all who came out to sip some of the beers we've made over these past months. You were more & bigger than we anticipated. We underestimated you, and clearly you're not to be taken lightly. We figured we'd stroll over there with some kegs and some folks would show up to quaff a few. Turns out, many of you came, there was a line to get in and the beers popped in no time. A learning experience.

Next time we will bring 3x the beer, obviously you're thirsty.

A big thanks to Mike Roper and the Hopleaf crew for hosting all of us.

Another big thanks to you for coming out and enjoying these beers.

Cheers,

Half Acre Beer Co

Chicago, IL

Another first

Dave from California is hosting some new ink. The Shewolf is part of his life from this point forward. Not only is it awesome to have one of our labels cross over to the eternal status of tattoo, but it's also the one that has the heads of state of both Half Acre and Three Floyds drinking the milk of life from a female wolf. Perfect.

Half Acre Beer Co

Chicago, IL