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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 06/02/2026

České Švýcarsko is apparently a national park I found by just searching Czech Switzerland. And a call back to one of our first Lukr features, Roaring Table Pilsner (which became Concordance) and Phase Three P3 American Pils. July 18 2021. A early and rough hladinka here in the British mug here.

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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 · 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 · 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 · 01/08/2025

Micro matic has a 16" column tower [DS-132-PSS-C] which gives a good height for Lukr activities out of the box. Normal towers are 12-13 inches, only good for short mugs. It needs the American shank adapter, the shank holes are spinstops so won't fit Lukr shanks without machining the shank hole.

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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Ice chilled beer lines and Matsuo-style beer service

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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

[Business Calendar for July] This is Beermiscuous! We will do our best to pour delicious beer for everyone, so please check out our business calendar for Japanese-style pour service. ・Sun July 27 we will feature a special pour festival with ice chilled beer lines.

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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Check out this cool one faucet tower setup. It reminds me of a couple different Japanese shops, pouring from the side is especially present on the Bier Reise '98 chilled servers (home of the Matsuo Pour Twice)

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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

It's not very silly and it's a very tasty pour. Bier Reise '98 / Matsuo style Pour Twice. Orion, The Draft, ice chilled. Micro Matic Swing Lever Music: 海風に揺れて by Chill City Pop

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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Having never seen Orion /The Draft/ in keg format, it was at Glunz inventory for the first time I've seen, and here it is on Sharp pour.

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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Why do I bother printing anything. This took 20 minutes.

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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The silly Japanese style business calendar for May! Rice probably has only a handful left. The CMB might have to be replaced by the Debitap, with the Lukr Freedom Baroko getting back on next to it. Haven't been able to settle on what to serve Hopewell Sharp from. Maybe sneak a Maibock on!

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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

We're doing special Beer Stand Beermiscuous at the Lakeview cafe, Sat May 5, 6pm to close. Hopewell Sharp.

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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I have a lot of Japanese style beer service content in prepping for next week's event at Beermiscuous Lakeview.

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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Art History Gravitáce, Světlý Ležák 12° on Lukr side pull. Smooth Pour.

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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Alutinio Maratonas 2014 September 20 3"x5" Always loved the running guy on this flyer.

Small promotional flyer for an beer marathon in Vilniaus featuring a running man in traditional Lithuanian clothing.

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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Can confirm it was received, and it is a very cute keg

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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Being nosy about Larry Bell's beer fridge, we can spot Hamm's, Heineken, and Allagash White, along with 5L kegs of Oberon and Tessie's Golden on the counter. Photo from Crain's Chicago: www.chicagobusiness.com/residential-...

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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Listen. Hell ya keep this kind of internet

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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Is there a dark version of the Diesel? Dovetail Rauchbier & City Pop Cola

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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The Business Calendar returns. These are one of my favorite nods

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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Getting a S coupler ready for tomorrow. We tap 19L kegs of 5.0% Asahi Super Dry produced in Japan, likely the only time we will ever have access to that as it should be brewing in Waunakee eventually. (was told it needs to hit the targets on 3 subsequent batches before earning release)

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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Budvar has this really beautiful new mug but it hasn't made it over to where it must be sold as Czechvar. Here's their new marketed pour in decades old glass. #sidepull #crisppour #budvarpour

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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

In this slow season, Kikuchi Beer Store offers 7 beer pours (there's even more). Usually there's just a couple set pours that vary between different brands. e.g. "Sharp" and "Pour Once" for Sapporo Black Label, but now any pour can be called. Post here: www.instagram.com/p/DE0ARUryREI/

Beer Menu of Kikuchi Beer Shop in Tokyo on Feb 2024. Shows 5 Czech style beer pours and 7 Japanese style beer pours below the menu.

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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Two side by side pulls on that 45° did collide in this config. But they fit on this 8" depth drip tray. (I've always loved the American box T Tower. And eventually we'll work up to this. Lukr tower always the dream)

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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Thursday. Slow Pour only. Secret menu Milktubes. No Hladinky allowed Drink the way they do in Downers Grove!

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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Two don't fit with the straight flanges, though you can get one Lukr shank + elbow plus a short standard shank. Straight flanges allow the side pulls to come out 90° from each other which makes them fit in a long drip tray. We do that but with the US shank adapter.

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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

It's certainly a little tight, but two Lukr supplied 60mm shanks fit in a 75mm tower with these particular ~45°? tower flanges, and these elbows. It does make the faucets stick out at a different angle, affecting the drip tray zone. Though not as long.

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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

This is my favorite price tag in the cafe. (If you slap down a 10 Koruna we will accept that as payment.)

Off Color's Ten Crowns price tag is listed under the equivalent exchange rate of $7.15 USD to Czech Koruna.

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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Urban Chestnut Czech Pils on Lukr side pull, Hladinka, 0,5L

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Beermiscuous Highwood @beermiscuoushw.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Hopewell Simple English on hand pull. This will be peak condition on Friday! Our beer engine used to be at Metropolitan Brewery, and before that made for Half Acre Lincoln's taproom.

Hopewell Simple English, a Brown Ale on cask

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