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Beermiscuous Highwood

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Lager Beer Cafe in Highwood, north of Chicago. Zig authored, unless otherwise credited.

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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We had our 2000th keg kick on Mon Aug 17. I happened to be working but didn't know it at the time. My keg sheet is 56 items behind, dating back to mid July. We've kicked 2018 items to date. Four kegs kicked that shift. We're going have to dip into the Untappd menu history to see which was #2000
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Glunz' online order portal alphabetically sorts its brands, but capital letters are sorted before lowercase. MIDDLE BROW is sorted before Maplewood.
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
VELTINS (Chicago's Rothaus)
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
We have only a couple pours of Tennent's left on side pull. The milktube has this pleasant toasted/nutty finish but that isn't for everybody. Also, it seems the Scots have found this video on TT.
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Zeman's was a small brewery in Lake County, open from 1942-1964. This ad is from Draugas, a Lithuanian paper. Published 1950-12-09, No. 285, Vol XXXIV, pg 2.
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Newsletter! mailchi.mp/beermiscuous...
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Guinness on the Engine
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Half Acre Lager Town Octoberfest has been activated at the distributor. (though no inventory added, yet)
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Hop Butcher For the World's online store website is shopbutcher.com and these are the things that give me joy.
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
i ordered "one case of Heineken" from my distributor on todays order. I did not specify what format. like any big lager, there'd be a bazillion options; there's 15 sizes on their website. What size and format do you think it will be?
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Friday Newsletter! We have 380 subscribers. Share this with a beer lover. I wrote +2100 words on our three new drafts this week.
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Gold Medal winning lager on Swing Lever
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
By my estimation, Hopewell Pocha is the first Chicagoland lager marketed as a Korean style (or Japanese lager) that doesn't use rice. All malt!
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
the Side Action: rlbs.ltd.uk/side-action-...
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Side Action Chrome & Black Dispense Tap with Removable Nozzle
High Quality RLBS Manufactured Chrome & Black Side Action Dispense Tap with: ½" BSP back thread Backing nut Removable Nozzle ?? John Guest Push-Fit Inlet
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Keith Lemcke (recently & formerly of Siebel) joined the guild listserv and started emailing a couple times a week and everything is always delightful. Here's a paper regarding caution in "Serving NA beer on draught" jib.cibd.org.uk/index.php/ji... jib.cibd.org.uk/index.php/ji...
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The microbiological quality of draught no- and low-alcohol beers | Journal of the Institute of Brewing
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
"can we recycle this Philsner Raquel and Augushtin Buttmuncher cardboard on top of da fridge?
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
we have weekly cafe notes that help me plan out the week: items/events/curation. There's a little numbers blurb with on how many package items sold in a week. Last week was a perfect 21.125 cases so I'm going to start looking up the vulgar factions and insert those for my own entertainment. 21⅛
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Newsletter, discussing fresh cask with the original cascade, milktube madness, and our triple point pick of the week! ~1000 words
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🍀 Fresh Cask Stout Tomorrow 🍀
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The distro has 53 kegs of GREEN Lite at the top of this week and I am generally interested in how and who's dosing those kegs. Distro? dose a little vial from the gas port on a coupler?
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Half Acre Beer @halfacrebeer.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
It’s with excitement that we announce Maplewood Brewery & Distillery and Half Acre Beer Co will join together to create a premier Chicago beverage company. We combine as individually strong, complementary businesses that share similar visions for the future of our industry and city.
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
i've set a mini goal to add more of the instructional Lukr content and specialty faucets to the company youtube, and hosted on the website. I dug this one from Aug 2023 on assembling the Lukr Nostalgie side pull model. Need to cut together the Baroko version. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqM0...
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Assembling the Lukr Nostalgie side pull faucet
YouTube video by Beermiscuous
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Pulaski Day! I think there's an unsung amount of Polish Light Lagers made by Chicagoland breweries. One Trick Pony Busia Rose Maplewood Pulaski & Cashmere Pulaski Marz Chicagoland Hopewell Zimne Rev+Moors Moorvolution Phase Three Polish Pils Goldfinger Polish Pils (a series) Argus Paschke
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
"A current pint-bottle of Iron City, accompanied by a cat"
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Michael asks: "What is the highest ABV you've had on draft?" Dive into the spreadsheet. We'll search [/BA ] which gives us 45 barrel aged offerings across 1874 kegs kicked (2.4%). I'm assuming it has to be one of those since ABV isn't tracked. Then we'll look em up manually. Top 3 in replies:
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Hot pokin beers for five years. It's an August Schells thing, and why it's today at 4pm and not in Fall. Bock! Doppelbock! #bierstacheln #beerpoking
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Whiner youtube channel describing their brewhouse and equipment which is being put on auction soon (ends Mar 4). www.youtube.com/@Whinerbeerb...
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
We'd have three breweries on draft that have closed. Schneeeule Kennedy / Berliner Weiss Miskatonic West Coast Wizard / IPA And here, Alarmist Le Jus on Lukr side pull.
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Human Robot, a brewery in Philadelphia and inventor of the Milktube, has shown a Japanese-style Sharp Pour. Extra breakout on the first step, but it's incredibly cool to see these breweries break out this service. I looked at them to learn the Lukr side pull. www.instagram.com/reel/DUlN4Vz...
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Tonight for #EatDrinkHighwood we have Czech Service by way of our own Bohemian Switzerland. Our two Lake Zurich breweries Roaring Table providing Pale Lager and Phase Three with a nice Dark Lager. Phil with a nice little video cap here. Our extra racks of Praha in the back left!
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
We're in our chamber's Restaurant Week: Eat. Drink. Highwood. Each day is a special beer service. Wed broke out the ice chilled beer lines for 1960s era Japanese beer service and the standing bar.
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
15.5 gal = ~293.37 200 ml stanges at 0% waste. Do I really think we're going to kick that keg 5-9p? 73.34 glasses per hour? 1.22 glasses per minute?
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
I'm guessing Kronenbourg 1664
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Goose Island's Salt Shed Pub added a side pull faucet around Feb 12, 2025 (Feb 7?). Appears to be the Pilsner Urquell branded one from taps commissioned during the SAB Miller ownership. I've never been familiar if Lukr actually manufactured this version. www.instagram.com/p/DF-2ejXP3yl/
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Řezané Tubes
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Two walkthrus of a row bar called the Alley Cat with a 51' Chicago rail bar top. (2013 W Division, Chicago) After, Jan 18: www.tiktok.com/t/ZThB5ef4u/ Before, Oct 9: www.tiktok.com/t/ZThB51LLe/ I like watching the after first.
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the alley cat chicago 1/18 CANT WAIT TO KISS YALL IN HERE
TikTok video by pepperonitonie
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Highwood sold 91.2 bbl of draft in 2025, up 5.8 bbl over 2024. 341 kegs and cask of different sizes, +18 over 2024. 321 unique. 300 local (87.98%) where last year was 95.36%. will have a fleshed out post later in the month, a tradition started by Orange & Brew in Downers Grove.
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I've been tracking down the site where Pilsner Urquell was first tapped in America. Shortly before Christmas in 1873, Pilsner Bier was served in Racine, Wisconsin, about 36 miles north of our lager beer cafe. Does this building still exist? Where's that plot? So I can go drink a Pilsner there.
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
It was incredibly fun having Pilsner on swing lever and trying out all these pours. #swinglever #pouronce #beer
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
From the research division: Racine Advocate City and County Directory. U of Wisc-Madison Library. 67 Saloons of Racine, Wisconsin in 1876. search.library.wisc.edu/digital/A6FF...
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
the Swing Lever can't do the most core Czech pour. it is good at other things, but not a Lukr replacement. #swinglever #smoothpour
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Pilsner Urquell, Sharp Pour, Swing Lever. Been waiting to get this beer on Japanese service for a good while. #swinglever #sharppour
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
What an egregious lack of journalistic integrity. "Tom Bobak, the editor-in-chief of American Craft Beer, apologized for the error and blamed his use of ChatGPT for the misinterpretation of the Standard’s reporting. The website has added a note updating readers on the reality."
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Fact check: Anchor Brewing is dormant but not departed
A niche beer publication reported that the famed brewery isn’t staying in the city–but owners say otherwise.
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
putting a report together for one of our brewery suppliers: 2025 YTD (Jan 1 thru Oct 25) 277 kegs, 260 unique (93.86%), 250 local chicagoland (90.25%) 2024 YTD 267 kegs, 264 unique (98.88%), 256 local (95.88%) 2023 YTD 243 kegs, 238 unique (97.94%), 229 local (94.24%) *keg count includes casks
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Goldfinger Dunkel on side pull.
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Sunday, we're letting the Štamgast pour their own Lukr side pull to mark our secret 7th anniversary. mailchi.mp/beermiscuous... We got this idea from Cohesion Brewing, and it's the third year running it.
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Shiny Rice Foam!
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
short videos on wooden beer casks @euanthecooper on ig and tt www.instagram.com/euanthecooper www.tiktok.com/@euanthecooper
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
I like a lot about cask service, but one of my favorite things is seeing the marked history across these casks, some that have probably 40 years of service. This was once used at Flossmoor Station.
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
GABF 2025 - 8,315 beers judged. The top five most populous categories account for 13.7% of beers judged. Hazy IPA, 301 entries (3.6%) West Coast IPA, 300 (3.6%) Dortmunder or German-Style Oktoberfest, 186 (2.2%) German-Style Pilsener, 184 (2.2%) Hoppy Lager, 171 (2.1%)
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
We've preorded Sakiškių Baked Festbier and Sakiškių Lithuanian Pils via Lime Ventures, destined for our Lukr side pulls, along with a few others from Sakiškės in package. Hoping they continue to push a little more here! The Keptinis mashed and decocted Pils was great on side pull last year.
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Paul Davies @beersommelierkew.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Baked beer? Lars has the story www.beerandbrewing.com/style-school...
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Meet Keptinis, the Baked Beer of the Baltics
There are many kinds of dark beer around the world, but there’s one that stands out as profoundly different from the others—and it features a deep, caramelized flavor that can only come from a nice, h...
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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
What is REALLY stopping me from pulling Guiness Draught through the beer engine?
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