What are you drinking this New Year’s Eve? If gin or vodka is your tipple, and you order “well” drinks at a Chicago bar — from Emmit’s in West Town to Grape Street in Streeterville — your libations will likely originate in southwest suburban Plainfield, Ill., where the U.K.-based spirits, wine and beer giant Diageo [...]
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Though Friday, Dec. 9, The Franklin Tap in the Loop celebrates the the passage of the Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Passed in December 1933, the amendment repealed Prohibition. Quaf $4 pints of Batch 19, a lager inspired by the last batches of beer brewed before 1919, when full-strength beer was banned, and mixologist [...] The “Bloody Birdy,” served at Saturday and Sunday brunch at Blokes & Birds in Lakeview features Tito’s vodka infused with bacon, jalapeno and horseradish root and house-made bloody Mary mix, garnished with cherry tomato, house-made sausage, olive, cocktail onion, ham, horseradish havarti cheese, 4 year cheddar, pickle and peppers, served with a Young’s Double Chocolate [...] At 7 p.m. Monday, July 11, Blue 13 in River North fetes the all-American spirits with a Templeton Rye dinner. Lake Bluff-based North Shore Distillery opens its new tasting room beginning Friday, June 10. What it is: America’s foremost native spirits, bourbon is whiskey distilled from at least 51 percent corn and aged in charred oak barrels. Along with corn, it typically also contains barley malt and rye or wheat. By law, bourbon must be between 80 and 160 proof and aged at least two years. The highest quality [...] O thou, my muse! guid auld Scotch drink! Whether thro’ wimplin worms thou jink, Or, richly brown, ream owre the brink, In glorious faem, Inspire me, till I lisp an’ wink, To sing thy name! . . . Oh whisky! soul o’ plays and pranks! Accept a bardie’s gratefu’ thanks! When [...] Cold weather is the perfect time to warm your gullet with powerful spirits. Sample some at these tastings. Dewar’s Scotch tastings, 5 p.m. Mondays, Jan. 17 and Feb. 7, Cityscape Bar, River North, free. A Dewar’s consultant will guide you through a free blind-tasting of several different scotches including Dewar’s 12 and White Label. Dalmore [...] Take a ride through winter whiskey wonderland at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 19. Starting from Cooking Fools in Wicker Park, this tasting event features a two-hour trolley ride around Chicago and samples of hand-crafted and specialty whiskeys, with commentary by mixologist Angie Jackson. Expect such spirits as: Koval Lion’s Pride Organic Dark Rye Whiskey, the [...] At one minute after midnight, Dec. 5, 1933, Chicago celebrated the first legal tapping of a beer keg after the ratification of the 21st Amendment, ending Prohibition. |
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