On Saturday the Chicago Beer Society hosted its annual Day and Night of the Living Ales at Goose Island Wrigleyville, and for the first time since 2011, I was there.
Do you want to know who won? I won’t tease. Let’s start there.
And the Golden Tut? It went to Half Acre‘s English brown ale the Hammer, the Bullet, and the Vise.
Also in the top three? Metropolitan’s Cherry Generator, a choice that won’t surprise anybody who’s read my review of the civilian version of this splendid doppelbock. The cherries underlined its lush, slightly fruity malts and added a subtle tartness, and nothing of the original beer was lost—it was like regular Generator through a cherry-colored lens.
- “Why so many pictures of casks, Philip?” Well, casks are great at holding still for long exposures. Thanks for asking.
The Day and Night of the Living Ales uses a dripping-blood Halloween-style font for its logo, encouraging all and sundry to make the Night of the Living Dead connection. So I’ll sign off with a couple songs of that name. The Misfits first released “Night of the Living Dead” on a seven-inch EP in 1979, and this is the version from the 1982 full-length Walk Among Us.
