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German, Czech & Belgian styles. Traditional methods. Made in Chicago. dovetailbrewery.com

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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Get Oktoberfestiversary ready with a Bavarian-style fresh flower crown workshop from Monarch Beauty Farm -- a few tickets remain! dovetailbrewery.square.site/product/okto...
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Oktoberfestiversary Pre-Party: Fresh Flower Crown Workshop with Monarch Beauty Farm | Dovetail Brewery, Inc.
Come celebrate with us making festive flower crowns with real flowers! Our neighbor Maru from Monarch Beauty Farm will guide you to create a fun, colorful and beautiful headpiece to wear all weekend l...
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Rainy, fall-like Sunday? Sounds perfect! Bring yr pals in for a board game day, and pair a cozy beers (Vienna, Festbier, Dubbel or Rauchbier ...) with a pizza from Limoni Belli! Visit our board game wall or BYOG! Grab a deck of cards and play Bierskat! Loser buys the next round! No TVs!
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Moodboard: Summer’s not over, and neither is the weekend! Open Labor Day · Noon ’til 10p Industry Monday · 15% off all draft beer Los Gorditos Taco Truck · 1–7p
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Dovetail Long Weekend Sunday Funday Moodboard: Patio time! Beer slushies! Festbier! Share a Kranz with friends! Pizza by Limoni Belli starting at 1pm!
Photo depicts Pinterest-style moodboard featuring images of a Kranz of Dovetail Kölsch, Pizza, Beer Slushy, and sunglasses.
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Back-to-School Pfiff! ☕️ Inspired by a DePaul class studying “third spaces” -- places outside home & work where we gather and connect. Tomorrow, Ceramic Coffee pop-ups from 10am–2pm. Students: show your school ID for $2 off a coffee drink!
Recently, we got to meet a DePaul class studying “third spaces”-- the places outside of home and work where we gather, hang out, and connect with other people -- and they’re making Dovetail one of their field trips this semester!

Which feels like a pretty good excuse for a special Back-to-School edition of Pfiff! -- when we open the taproom early for coffee pop-ups, remote work, and a little of the Viennese coffeehouse culture that inspired it.

Tomorrow, our friends at Ceramic Coffee Roasters are taking over the coffee side of things from 10am–2pm. Regulars of the Pfiff!, Ceramic is a neighborhood roastery focused on making specialty coffee and coffee education more accessible and inclusive -- which feels pretty right at home in this special conversation we'll have tomorrow about third spaces, community, and the places where we learn from each other.

STUDENTS: Show your school ID and get $2 off a coffee drink from Ceramic. Offer good for this edition of Pfiff only!
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This weekend -- we're having a 10 Year Birthday Party! www.dovetailbrewery.com/10year
10 YEAR PARTY BEER SPECIALS!
Noon til close, Saturday and Sunday

All DAY!
$5 pours of the three beers we opened Dovetail with: Hefeweizen, Rauchbier and the 10th Anniversary edition of our Lager

10 Year Anniversary Tankard
Keep the glass! For $15, get a special half-liter 10 year anniversary tankard and a fill! Once they’re gone, they’re gone!

ONE LITER CLUB:
One Liter Club members can also bring their vintage Dovetail steins for $10 pours of the OG Three, or $15 pours of anything else (except Spons, don’t do that to your tummy).
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Breaking our "No TVs in the taproom" for Belgium vs USA at 7pm. No sound. All day: $1 off draft pours of all of our Belgian-style beers, including our spontaneously-fermented beers made in the Senne Valley Tradition. Proost op onze lever!
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Mark your calendar for Sunday, July 26 -- Dovetail's Bike Social and Radler Party returns!
On July 26, join us for our 3rd annual Bike Social & Radler Party, where we gather some of Chicago’s riders, makers, and movers for a day devoted to the joy of biking. And you can’t have a Bike Social without a Radler — it literally means “cyclist” in German. We’ll have a full lineup of these low-ABV, refreshing beer cocktails ready for you after your ride to the taproom. Since 2016, we’ve made our house Radlers with Filbert’s pop, a South Side institution that’s been making soda for more than 100 years. 🚲 🍺 The first 50 attendees get a free Dovetail water bottle!
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
TOMORROW: Join us for Week Two of our series celebrating global beer traditions during the World Cup! For Global Beer Traditions: Germany, we’ll be pouring Diesels, a beer cocktail of 50% pale lager and 50% cola.
TOMORROW: Join us for Week Two of our series celebrating global beer traditions during the World Cup!

For Global Beer Traditions: Germany, we’ll be pouring Diesels, a beer cocktail of 50% pale lager and 50% cola. We’ll also have complimentary treberwurst (aka sausages warmed up in the day’s spent grain) to snack on while you ...

... learn to play Meiern with INTL CAFE! Join German speakers of all levels and learn this pub game to impress your friends on your next night out.

Diesels will start pouring at 4pm and German pub games will begin at 6pm. Prost! 🇩🇪
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Thursday, July 16: USA - American Kegger with Beard & Belly
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Thursday, June 18: Mexico - Micheladas with Pinches Miches and Los Gorditos Thursday, June 25: Germany - Diesels Thursday, July 2: Japan - Sharp Pours & Matcha Beers with Good Omen Gyoza Thursday, July 9: Korea - Chimaek
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
June at Dovetail: The World Cup is coming! ⚽️ Join us each Thursday during the tournament (sorry, no TVs at Dovetail — but we’re just a short stroll to the Globe, and a longer walk to AJ Hudson’s), as we explore how people gather around beer in five countries competing in this year’s World Cup
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
C'mon back! The Sox are fun this year, too!!
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
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Every brewery should have a house beer—a beer that says: this is who we are.

For us, that means brewing with a Franconian mindset: beer rooted in place, shaped by tradition, guided by craftsmanship, and made to be enjoyed round after round in good company.

Ours has always been Dovetail Lager.

And while “crispy bois” has become shorthand for “lager,” we’ve always believed there’s no single definition of what lager can or should be. Lager is not monolithic. In Franconia, lager is deeply individual—a reflection of the ingredients, the processes, the brewhouse, the cellar, the town, and the people drinking it. Our house flavor reflects who we are—not a one-size-fits-all idea of what lager should taste like.

Ten years in, Dovetail Lager remains at the center of what we do—but we’re still learning what it’s capable of. A few years ago, we began our Hopfenlager series—a chance to explore what happens when you give hops room to shine in a traditional lager framework.

What began as curiosity became one of our favorite things to explore: layer upon layer of hop character, from classic noble varieties to experimental hops still without names, added late in the coolship to preserve delicate aromatics while keeping bitterness soft and refined.

The result is our 10th Anniversary Lager—an elevated expression of our house beer: familiar in its drinkability—golden, malty, rich, and beautifully creamy, with layered complexity—yet deeper in hop character, carrying an unmistakable love letter to Tettnang: herbal, floral, peppery, elegant, and endlessly drinkable.

Dovetail 10th Anniversary Lager is available in 4-packs and draft in the taproom and around Chicagoland, and tonight Bill will tap a gravity keg around 6pm.
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Also we made shiny cans, hitting your better bottle and can shops around town this weekend: www.dovetailbrewery.com/10year
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
You should come to our party next weekend!!
Inspired by the backyard parties of SXSW’s heyday, porch concerts at the Hideout, and Fitzgerald’s American Music Festival, Dovetail’s Secret Stage gathers a whole bunch of our friends, artists we admire, and even a few talented Dovetail employees. 😎

Thanks to Colvin House for supporting this year’s Secret Stage. Located in a historic Edgewater mansion, they host year-round public programming including their Sunday Salons series.

Join us next Saturday and Sunday in the alley just south of the North Gate at Warner!

SATURDAY, MAY 23
12:00 pm DJ: Josh Rodin (from packaging!)
1:15 pm Rosacea boy
2:30 pm Barrett Haselwood
3:45 pm Damon Hennessy Trio
5:00 pm Toney Honk (from the warehouse!)
6:15 pm Jon Langford and Kelly Hogan

SUNDAY, MAY 24
12:00 pm DJ: so.crates (from the brewhouse!)
1:15 pm Scott & Odie
2:30 pm Tuba Force
3:45 pm Expo 76
5:00 pm John Green Band
6:15 pm Phillip-Michael Scales
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Saison Sundays start April 26! Last Sunday of the month through August. Bring a Belgian bottle to share—when you purchase 0.5L Saison per bottle (your corkage). De Garre–ish bar snacks on us.
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Where Do You Draw the Rhine? On April 25, it’s Düsseldorf vs. Köln in one of beer’s fiercest rivalries, as Altbier faces off against Kölsch in the region's signature style of service. Our Köbes keep the beer flowing -- .2L pours of Dovetail Kölsch and Altbier --until you say, “Stop!”
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
As sandal season approaches, a reminder that it's closed-toe shoes only on our brewery tours. Use code CLOSEDTOES26 to save $2 on a future brewery tour: www.dovetailbrewery.com/tours (Coupon valid til April 30, 2026)
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Also this month: April Showers Bring More Lagers (And Some Ales). Join us for the release of Summer Hopfenlager (April 2), Saison (April 16) and Grodziskie (April 23). We'll tap a gravity keg around 6pm each day. Subscribe to our newsletter for more! mailchi.mp/dovetailbrew...
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Header here to read all about the Rhine-ish Menu by Chef Jake and more: www.dovetailbrewery.com/events#calen...
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Where Do You Draw the Rhine? On April 25, it’s Düsseldorf vs. Köln in one of beer’s fiercest rivalries, as Altbier faces off against Kölsch in the region's signature style of service. Our Köbes keep the beer flowing -- .2L pours of Dovetail Kölsch and Altbier --until you say, “Stop!”
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
On Wed, March 25 (one day only), we’re opening at 10AM for coffee, pfiffs, and a quiet taproom to get a few things done. ☕🍺 Espresso drinks by Ceramic Coffee Roasters and Double Umlauts on all pfiffs of Core 5 beers until 2pm. What the heck is a pfiff? A .2L pour, common in Austria and Bavaria.
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
On Wed, March 25 (one day only), we’re opening at 10AM for coffee, pfiffs, and a quiet taproom to get a few things done. ☕🍺 Espresso drinks by Ceramic Coffee Roasters and Double Umlauts on all pfiffs of Core 5 beers until 2pm. What the heck is a pfiff? A .2L pour, common in Austria and Bavaria.
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Pre-order the Opening Day Helles Collection! dovetailbrewery.square.site
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Altbier is back. Which means beer’s biggest rivalry returns April 25.
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Logging in because we owe it to you to know that THANK YOU FOR SMOKING returns Feb 22 with more than a dozen smokies on tap. Head here for more info: www.dovetailbrewery.com/events#calen...
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
First up is our Czech Beer Hall on January 10: www.dovetailbrewery.com/events/beer-...
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Coming up after our Winterpause from Jan 5-8 ... BEER HALL MONTH! After a holiday break, we’ll reopen our taproom and kick off our 10th year with three Beer Hall events, each one showcasing the beer and traditions of a historic beer place: PRAGUE • January 10 KÖLN • January 17 VIENNA • January 31
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
If you’re unavailable that evening, but still would like to participate, they have put together a donation wishlist: www.amazon.com/registries/g...
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Whistlemania: Ravenswood | Amazon Gift List
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
On Wednesday, November 5 from 6-8pm, join our neighbors to put together kits with Know Your Rights zines and whistles. Volunteers are asked to bring their own scissors. We’ll give you 15% off your tab for the night, if you want to also have a beer.
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Last week, a few of our neighbors wanted to host a Whistlemania event in Ravenswood and asked if we were able to provide some space to spread out so they could assemble whistle kits for an evening. It’s been one way that Chicagoans have been able to organize to protect their neighbors.
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Join Hagen and Laurin from Seipp Brewing at the DANK Haus this Friday, October 24 for a talk lead by Northwestern University professor Robert Ryder called "From Biergarten to Breweries: The Cultural History of Beer from Germany to Chicago." Get tix here: dankhaus.com/event-6363909
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
October at Dovetail: putting the BOO into BOOK WORMS, spooky origami, Chicago-style magic, Mahjong, yoga, and more! Grab a pal and head to the taproom! 🍎
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
This global event transforms parking spaces into social spots, and we’re celebrating with a Radler Party! German for “cyclist,” Radlers are a refreshing, low-alcohol beer-and-soda blend made for bike culture—just like Park(ing) Day celebrates rethinking how we move through Chicago.
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Tomorrow from noon–8p, Chicago Growth Project takes over the parking lots at Dovetail and our neighbors Demo Brewing (just a 4-minute walk away!) for Park(ing) Day with live music, yoga, speakers, and urbanist displays.
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
We're celebrating Mexican Independence Day and National Hispanic Heritage Month in the taproom today with michelada service today! It’s another entry into the “How the heck do they drink lager in ____?” question we love to ask. Come on thru after da game!
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
This weekend, we’re proud to be a stop on this year’s Ravenswood ArtWalk. Stop by for a live screen printing demo by Chicago Printmakers Collaborative and more visiting artists: www.instagram.com/p/DOeR1Pdjkgf/
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Belgium Beer Week kicks off at the taproom tonight with a gravity keg tapping with Michael Roper of the Hopleaf 🇧🇪
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
AUG 28–31 – BELGIUM BEER WEEK Showcasing our Belgian side. With special services and guests all week. SEPT 7 – KÖLSCH DAY Traditional Kölsch-style service — we’re bringing out the Kranz! SEPT 14 – CHELERO! Explore Mexican beer culture with a special Chelada & Michelada service.
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
AUG 16 – BERLINER DAY ‘Mit Schuss’ beer service with syrups by Bitter Ex and curry wurst from Beard & Belly AUG 24 – DOVETAIL TACHINOMI A soba noodle demonstration from soba master Mariko Kallister & guest tapster Ziggy of Beermiscuous. Tickets now at dovetailbrewery.com
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
This summer, take the CTA to ... BERLIN. TOKYO. BRUSSELS. KÖLN. MEXICO CITY.
AUG 16 – BERLINER DAY
In 2023, we brewed our Berliner Weisse: a refreshing 3.2% sour wheat beer for summer—pale, lightly hazy, effervescent, with water cracker malt, minerality, lemony tartness, and Greek yogurt tang. Brettanomyces adds pineapple and hay as it ages. Traditionally made with single decoction, coolship, and open fermentation, it also used historic twists: a hop mash, no boil, and a Berlin-style water profile.

Now, two years later, we’re re-releasing a few kegs to see how the Brett has developed. To honor tradition, we’ll serve it in coupe-like glasses—“the Champagne of the North”—and “mit schuss,” with syrups from Bitter Ex. Beard & Belly will be here with Berlin’s iconic snack, currywurst.

AUG 24 – DOVETAIL TACHINOMI
Our taproom transforms into a Japanese-style standing bar, or tachinomi. Join guest tapster Zigmas Maloni (Beermiscious) as he pours Dovetail Lager in Japanese “Cut-style,” showcasing the revered foam. We’ll also welcome back Soba Master Mariko Kallister, trained under Kunihiro Takahashi and a former Dassai sake brewer, for a live soba noodle demonstration and tasting. Space is limited for the soba demo—tickets available! Afterward, enjoy Ziggy’s Japanese-style ice service.

Also Coming Up
AUG 28–31 – Belgium Beer Week: Guest tapsters, lambic baskets, Belgian café culture, cellar releases, and guests like Pink Boots Chicago and The Cheese Maven.
SEPT 7 – Kölsch Day: Traditional Kranz service.
SEPT 14 – Chelero!: Mexican beer culture with Chelada & Michelada service, sauces by Pinatta.
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
This Sat (7/26), we’re headed to Alsace—a region where French culinary and agricultural influence meets German lager traditions. Bad Johnny rolls thru with his wood-fired oven to make Flammkuchen (don’t call it pizza!!), made with our spontaneous beer sourdough. 12–8pm. Beer specials. Bis bàll!
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
New issue of the Schnitt: Square Roots, the Mekons, Indonesian-style beer service and the incredible ferments of our 2nd Sunday pop-up, Piñatta -- read and subscribe so we don't have to post here! mailchi.mp/dovetailbrew...
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THE SCHNITT: A Square Roots pre-party and Indonesian-style beer service returns! 🇵🇱
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Chicago Bike Sox @chicagobikesox.com · 20/06/2025
We’ll be at @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social’s Bike Social and Radler Party on Saturday w/ friends from @femnthembikechi.bsky.social & @oofd.org, stickers & season schedules, food from Good Omen Gyoza and Tacos Las Manitas, tune-ups, vendors, and all kinds of hand-mixed radlers. Come make bike friends!
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BIKE SOCIAL & RADLER PARTY
JUNE 21
NOON-6PM
MEET US AT DOVETAIL!

The poster is a grid of green bike tires on a beige circles against a pink background. The bottom right circle is a sunny yellow. It looks like it’d taste like citrus.
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
SAT JUN 14: Grodziskie Day The most important of beer holidays. Join us to raise a toast to the pride of Polish beer, Grodziskie. ORDER IT LOUD. SAT JUN 21: Bike Social and Radler Party To foster a bike-friendlier Chicago over a few bike-friendly beers (aka Radlers).
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
DOVETAIL JUNE POP-UPS AND EVENTS: FRI JUN 6: Dovetail Secret Garden: Slushie Edition We’re pulling out some of our colorful, fruited spons out of the cellar and slushifiying them to benefit The Center on Halsted
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
This Sunday, June 1 at 2pm -- Introducing the Old Town Ale House House Ale. What started out as a joke, now has a tap handle: www.beerculturecenter.org/events/2025/...
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Old Town Ale House House Ale — Beer Culture Center
The bar opens early so you can gather with us for the official release of the Old Town Ale House House Ale! Founded in 1958, the Old Town Ale House has seen its fair share of patrons come and go. Fr...
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Andrew Hertzberg @andhertz.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Good thing I like biking and don't mind going out of my way but still...anyway, this looks like a cool event on Sunday!
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The Chicago Publication Release Party — Dovetail Brewery
The Chicago Publication is a new, print-only publication which covers the topics of film and music, Chicago politics, the food scene, gardening, culture, etc. Join the editorial and production team fr...
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Dovetail Brewery @dovetailbrewery.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
On May 16 & 17, order your Dovetail Helles the Indonesian way—over ice. Called bir es, it’s how millions across Southeast Asia enjoy beer: cold, crisp, perfect for hot days and spicy food. We’re pairing it with Bumbu Roux, a new-to-Dovetail food truck blending Indonesian and Creole flavors.
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