FOOD INDUSTRY NEWS MARCH 2017
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MARCH 2017
LEADING THE CRAFT BEER REVOLUTION
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Wednesday, March 8, 2017 Chefs Hall of Fame
Dinner Event Honoring Our 2016 Inductees Chefs Hall of Fame Culinary Experience Crystal Gardens, Navy Pier, 700 E. Grand, Chicago, 5:00 - 9:30 pm Purchase Tickets at: www.chicagoculinarymuseum.org Carmella Anello: 630-290-7008; chicagomuseumchof@yahoo.com
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Chicago’s legendary brands are icons: Vienna Beef and Garrett Popcorn bring the food, but Revolution Brewing has earned praise for outstanding craft beer in a city that’s tough on start-ups. Co-founder Josh Deth and his wife, Revolution CFO Krista Sahakian took the plunge in 2008 when they found amassive space with a tin ceiling for their brewpub in Chicago’s yet-unhip Logan Square neighborhood. After multiple banks turned them down, one bank had faith, and Deth, an alum of both Chicago’s Golden Prairie and Goose Island, built it... and kept building. Deth’s graduate degree in urban planning as well as experiences trying, failing, and learning built the brand that was a hit the minute it debuted, and later opened the brewery in Avondale. Evolving tastes of beer drinkers had demanded bigger flavors, more variety, and innovative concept, but they need to hit us out with excellence, and that’s where Revolution Brewing took the lead. Between the Brewery and Brewpub,
Revolution Brewing produces dozens of different beer styles every year. IPAs (Anti-Hero IPA, which accounts for more than 50% of its sales), Porters, Pilsners, Belgian-Style Ales (Bottom Up Wit), PaleAles (award-winning Cross of Gold). Barrel aged beers and the list goes on. It is a bustling meeting place for the community where you can get a table, drink and taste some of their fantastic dishes served up by Chef Charlie and his brewpub team. Revolution Brewery’s 90,000 square foot facility, located at 3340 N. Kedzie, is where they fill kegs, cans and bottles for distribution. The brewery also houses their German beer-hall-inspired Taproom. Tours bring their legend to visitors from around the world. In 2016, Revolution Brewing cracked into the Brewers Associations list of the top 50 craft brewing companies in the United States. The Revolution Brewpub is located in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood at 2323 N. Milwaukee in Chicago.
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