Off Color Brewing is an American
craft beer
Craft beer is a beer that has been made by craft breweries. They produce smaller amounts of beer, typically less than large breweries, and are often independently owned. Such breweries are generally perceived and marketed as having an emphasis o ...
brewery in the
Logan Square neighborhood of
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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Illinois
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[Off Color Brewing]
RateBeer. Retrieved April 23, 2014. The brewery began in early 2013 as a partnership between John Laffler, formerly with
Goose Island Brewery
Goose Island Beer Company is a brewery in Chicago, Illinois, that began as a single brewpub opened in 1988 in Lincoln Park, Chicago, and named after a nearby island. The larger production brewery opened in 1995, and a second brewpub, in Wrigle ...
, and Dave Bleitner, formerly with
Two Brothers Brewing
Two Brothers Brewing Company is an independently owned Illinois-based microbrewery founded by brothers Jim and Jason Ebel in 1996. The brothers brought their knowledge of different brewing styles to the Chicago craft brew market after living in ...
. The modus operandi of Off Color's founders when they began operation was to focus on brewing forgotten styles of beer, particularly those made in Germany before ''
Reinheitsgebot
The ''Reinheitsgebot'' (, literally "purity order") is a series of regulations limiting the ingredients in beer in Germany and the states of the former Holy Roman Empire. The best known version of the law was adopted in Bavaria in 1516 (by Wil ...
'' (i.e. the Bavarian Purity Law) was proclaimed in the late 15th century, effectively condemning myriad styles of beer not made solely with barley, water, and hops.
[Dudek, Mitch (November 27, 2012)]
"Logan Square Brewers Hoping to Serve Up Beers Not Tasted in 500 Years"
''Chicago Sun-Times''. Retrieved April 23, 2014.
Beers
See also
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List of microbreweries
This is a list of notable microbreweries. A microbrewery is a brewery which produces a limited amount of beer. The qualifications to be classified as a microbrewery vary by country. The term "microbrewery" originated in the United Kingdom in the l ...
References
External links
* {{Official, http://www.offcolorbrewing.com
Beer brewing companies based in Chicago
American beer brands