Half Acre Brewing

Half Acre & New Belgium Team Up

Half Acre Beer Company (Chicago, IL) and New Belgium (Fort Collins, CO) have teamed up to create two different beers. Each of the releases is motivated by a trip to the other’s brewery. New Belgium has already been to Half Continue Reading →

Half Acre is Ready for Summer

Warm weather is here and so if the perfect beer. Tomorrow Half Acre Brewing
will be launching Hot Tropic, a coconut pale ale, at their tap room.

“Pull up a seat and kick off your shoes, we’ve shot Continue Reading →

Posted in Beer News, Half Acre Brewing, New Belgium

Half Acre & New Belgium Team Up

Half Acre New Belgium Soft Sour Ale

Half Acre Beer Company (Chicago, IL) and New Belgium (Fort Collins, CO) have teamed up to create two different beers. Each of the releases is motivated by a trip to the other’s brewery. New Belgium has already been to Half Acre, and in August the crew will head to Colorado to create their own iteration.

Beer #1: 2023m2 Soft Sour Ale. Designed to highlight the “soft complexity” of New Belgium’s brews. 2023 was slightly soured in the kettle, with Maresh and Sumac spices. Half Acre hopes to brew it again in 2023 and send it to Mars. (Probably not a joke).

Those close to Chicago will be pleased to know it launches July 19th. 22oz bottles, and growlers will be available.  We will update you on the brew day in Colorado in August.

If you go: 

  • Release Date: Friday, July 19, 2013
  • 6% ABV
  • 64 oz. growler refill: $16 *
  • 32 oz. growler refill: $9 *
  • 16 oz. draft: $5
  • 22 oz. bottle: $8.99 (limit 3) 

*limited to 64 ounces of growler beer total per person

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Half Acre Brewing, Headlines, Mikkeller, New Releases

Mikkeller’s First U.S. Can is With Half Acre

Half Acre Beer Company (Chicago, IL) will release a new collaboration with Mikkeller on July 3rd.

What’s inside: 

The collaboration brew uses a lager yeast strain, but that’s about as far as the lager part goes. It clocks in at 8% and plays jump rope with the style line of hoppy lagers, IPAs, and more. Hops include Nelson Sauvin & Falconer’s Flight.

What’s outside:

The label art is a mash up between HA’s Phineas and Mikkeller’s go-to artist Keith Shore.

Availability: 

16oz/4 pack cans. Retail $14.99 at Half Acre in Chicago. No distribution.

That’s the rundown.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Half Acre Brewing

Half Acre to Launch Two Kolsches

Get ready for two new summer Kolsches from Half Acre: C Change and Cuda. C Change launched on Friday June 14th and is a more traditional style Kolsch with a nice straw color and sessionable at 4.6% ABV. Cuda, however, is more Americanized and dry-hopped with Mosaic hops and a higher 6/1% ABV. Cuda will launch today, June 19th, and both beers are available at Half Acre’s brewpub.

C Change
Style: Kolsch
Availability: Draft Only
Arrival: Now Available

4.6% ABV

Cuda
Style: German Pale Ale
Availability: 22oz bottles, Draft
Arrival: Jun 19, 2013

6.1% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Half Acre Brewing

Half Acre Celebrates 5 Years, Launches First DIPA

Half Acre Beer Company (Chicago, IL) celebrates 5 years with this sharp imperial IPA – Navaja. This is actually the first imperial IPA they have ever released in their half decade history. A navaja is a Spanish style folding knife, one of the oldest styles still in production today.

Navaja Double India Pale Ale debuts today at the Half Acre 5th Anniversary Party.

Style: Imperial IPA
Availability: Draft

9.3% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Half Acre Brewing, New Releases

Ponder the Deep Meaning of Half Acre Stargrazer

Half Acre Beer Company (Chitown) is launching the deep thinking Stargrazer lager this Friday (May 3rd). The crisp, easy drinking beer is lightly hopped with some of the good ol’ American varieties. Here’s a little deep thinking from HA to ponder as you wait for the release:

Outer space is deep, man. Real deep. All sorts of mysterious, other-worldly, indescribable stuff happens out there. When you break it down and really think about it, we’re all part of this space idea as well. I mean, do you realize we’re floating in space? And who’s to say what else is out there? (well, besides scientists and astronomers and all those smarty-pants type folk… they do a pretty good job) Among the information that we do know is the concept of these ultra-high gravity black holes that eat stars. They just cruise around, light years away, and epicly consume stars and photons of light with a voracious appetite. These black holes are sometimes referred to as stargrazers. 

Style: Lager
Availability: Draft only
Arrival: 5/3/13

6% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Half Acre Brewing

Half Acre is Ready for Summer

Warm weather is here and so if the perfect beer. Tomorrow Half Acre Brewing
will be launching Hot Tropic, a coconut pale ale, at their tap room.

“Pull up a seat and kick off your shoes, we’ve shot to put the lounge in your glass. Hot Tropic Pale Ale is brewed with Motueka hops and carved up with ample amounts of raw coconut. Give it a ride, let it ease into you and maybe you’ll find yourself in a different place altogether.”

Style: Pale Ale (w/ coconut)
Availability: Draft only
Arrival: April 9 2013

5.5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Half Acre Brewing

Half Acre Akari Shogun Cans Ready To Go

Half Acre says their cans of Akari Shogun American Wheat Ale are ready to go and will be on sale tomorrow at the brewery.

“A ridable ale hosting some wheatey nuts & juicy Motueka hop bolts. The deliverer of this truth: Akari Shogun, He who harnesses light will usher this summer force into your life.”

Style: Wheat Ale
Availability: Special Release, 16 oz cans
Arrival: April 5th 2013

5.5% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay