Half Acre Brewing
Half Acre Changes Heyoka to Senita Pale Ale
Half Acre Brewing (Chicago, IL) is renaming Heyoka India Pale Ale to Senita India Pale Ale.
Recently, members of the Lakota community (Native Americans from the Great Plans of the United States) reached out to Half Acre about the use of “Heyoka.” Heyoka, translates roughly to “jester.” The Lakota community was disappointed in Half Acre’s use of the word.
Recently, some members of the Lakota community reached out with disappointment in our usage of the word and requested that we stop. We didn’t and aren’t going to spend any time defending or explaining our use of the word. We’re simply making the right choice and respecting their wishes.
The conversations with the Lakota people were very positive, says Half Acre. The brewery found it to be learning opportunity. From now on, Heyoka will be know as Half Acre Senita India Pale Ale. “Senita” is the name of a cactus.
The brand changes will take place immediately.
Half Acre Tamayura Taps Today
Half Acre Beer tapped a “friendship brew” with Coedo Brewing today. Brewed with citrus hops, and yuzu juice.
The result, Tamayura, is an ardently refreshing, slightly tart, hair raiser. We laid down a frame of cracker dry malt, splashed 22 liters of 100% yuzu juice into the pool, dry hopped with Hallertau Blanc and Amarillo, and a few days before packaging, we grabbed all the citrus fruits we could manage – oranges, grapefruits, lemons, yuzu – and got to zesting, steeping the beer over the weekend before its migration into kegs.
On tap at Half Acre in Chicago as of December 10th, 2014.
Half Acre Big Hugs 2014, December 14th
Half Acre Big Hugs Imperial Stout 2014 is ready. By our estimates, this is the sixth release of this coffee stout. The coffee, just like the brewing itself its local to Chicago, from Dark Matter Coffee.
Big Hugs is a dim kitten with aimless love in his heart and a ferocious will to live. Over the years he’s faced dinosaurs, rainbows, winter wonderland, a robotic plagiarism of himself, and more – but none a foe as elusive and mysterious as death itself. This story has the ultimate force taking the living and laying them down. Big Hugs has grappled with natural order and twisted the pillars of existence. While you hang in the balance, steal time to sit steady and spill this black rumble into your center. Big Hugs Imperial Stout is liquid char scraped from the bowels of eternity, soaked with the free spirit of an adolescent feline. Heed him and rejoice.
Look for bombers and growlers to be released on December 14th, starting at 11 am. Dark Matter coffee will at the brewery too, slinging the world’s OTHER most popular beverage.
Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Coffee)
Availability: 22oz Bombers, Draft. Limited seasonal release.
10% ABV
Pricing details:
- 22 ounce bottle $10.98 (limit 8 per person per day)
- 32 ounce howler refill $10.98 (limit 2 per person per day)
- 64 ounce growler refill $20.14 (limit 1 per person per day)
- 16 ounce draft pour $7
It’s Half Acre Chub Step Time Again
Half Acre Beer Company’s (Chicago) portly beer, Chub Step is back for Halloween. (As if that label wasn’t a dead give away.) Chub Step is a chocolate-y porter. Perfect this time of year.
The portly friend is back – and this year he’s tugged and squeezed his chunk into production just in time for our favorite night of the year. Throbbing chocolate, sateen mouth feel and nobility, curve their way through your darkest parts – the perfect primer for mischief and sweet treats.
The brewery loves Halloween, so in addition to the release of Chub Step, the brewery is holding an on-going costume contest, pumpkin carving contest, and even Halloween brewery tours. Check that out here. Half Acre Chub Step returns October 17th.
Style: Porter
Availability: 22oz Bombers, Draft.
Release: 10/17/14
Half Acre Sticky Fat Releases 10/3
It’s fresh hop season, that means the return of Half Acre Brewing’s (Chicago, IL) Sticky Fat. The 300 pounds of Chinook hops for this years release come straight from the vine in northern Michigan to the kettle at the brewery. Get Sticky Fat in your glass as fresh as possible.
This year we brewed with 300 pounds of Chinook hops, soaking wet and straight from our northern friends in Michigan. Sticky Fat American Dark Ale is brown as the bear’s hind quarters, and laced with piney, resinous hop character, backed up by plunging levels of chocolate and roast.
Half Acre Sticky Fat 2014 will be available in 22oz bombers and draft for a limited time starting October 3rd, 2014.
Style: Black IPA (Fresh Hopped)
Availability: 22oz Bombers, Draft. Seasonal release.
Arrival: 10/3/2014
7% ABV
Half Acre Anicca India Pale Ale 2014
Half Acre Brewing (Chicago, IL) and 3 Floyds (Muenster, IN) team up again to bring you Anicca India Pale Ale. The collaboration is built on Mosaic hops, which have really grown in popularity recently.
…Far flung exotic notes of tropical fruit and electric pine squat on shoulders of chewy grain. With some semblance of balance, the mighty Mosaic pounds its chest above all. In the end, this is raw, unmodified fire water rumbling the furthest reaches of your inner caves.
Half Acre/3 Floyds Anicca India Pale Ale returns September 19th, 2014 at 12 noon in the brewery tap room.
Style: IPA
Hops: Mosaic
Availability: 22oz Bombers. No growler fills
Arrival: 9/19/2014
7.3% ABV
Half Acre Heyoka IPA Returns 9/19
Half Acre Brewing (Chicago, IL) is bringing back Heyoka IPA in cans on September 19th, 2014. The brewery times this release right at the start of fall.
Heyoka IPA is a primal blend of Amarillo and Chinook, classic hop varietals earning their place in lore. Pouring a blazed orange, pale malts coddle liquid pine bitterness riding corduroy swells of depth. It will clap in your ears and buzz through your skull.
Half Acre Heyoka IPA is available in 16oz cans and draft.
Style: IPA
Hops: Amarillo, Chinook
Availability: 16oz Cans, Draft.
Return: 9/19/14
7% ABV
