Beermiscuous Highwood

Whiner youtube channel describing their brewhouse and equipment which is being put on auction soon (ends Mar 4). www.youtube.com/@Whinerbeerb...

This is my only chance to feature Alarmist beer on Lukr. Their distributor really only ever had this beer for draft, and this sixtel is dated to October. Alarmist has had Lukr side pulls since 2019-10-12, easily in the first 10 across Chicagoland.

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.

@notchbrewing.bsky.social hit a Sharp Pour of Tomodachi on a IG story back in Dec. About died when I opened up the app and saw that. www.instagram.com/p/DR99JD6kdO...

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...

swing in whenever!
I'm sure I could put together a list of the specialty pour shops in Japan just by trying to recreate individual pours. Specialty service still looks small portion of general drinking culture at large, which sounds right. But influential on the whole

Nada Hall opened around 1947-1948 serving hot sake but added a second section in 1949 serving draft beer, Nada Columbia. Whole space was rebranded Nada Columbia around 1963, closed March 27 1998. Matsuo joined about 1981 and opened Bier Reise '98 on May 11 1998.

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.

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!

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.

*Stangen

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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I'm guessing Kronenbourg 1664

Pub with the Micro Matic creamer faucet! This is the best I've ever seen that creamer function, tbh

(searching through reels to find more side pulls in the background)

They cut the whole pour, almost everyone does, I'm the only one that wants to see any pour unedited, but it presented nice.

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/

Řezané Tubes

the alley cat chicago 1/18 CANT WAIT TO KISS YALL IN HERE TikTok video by pepperonitonie

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.

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.

[1870] Ninth US Census:
Nativities of...Principal Cities, Table VIII, pg 387
Chicago 6,277 of Bohemia
Milwaukee 1,435 of Bohemia

Selected Nativities by Counties, Table VII, pg 377:
Wisconsin Counties
Racine Co: 703 born in Bohemia
Milwaukee Co: 1524
Kenosha Co: 11
IL, Cook: 6329
IL, Lake: 7

Why Czech beer in Racine? Racine went from 9,880 in 1870 to 16,031 in 1880 census. Racine County grew from 26,740 to 30,922. In 1870 there were 10,570 Czech settlers in Wisconsin, followed by Illinois with 7,350. via Miloslav Rechcígl, Jr.

Nearly all applicable spaces in Racine/Racine County that are on the National Register of Historic Places were built after 1873. Racine had its great fire in 1882. The Sixth Street Business District includes 3-4 candidates, maybe use their names to look up adverts for "Pilsner Bier"

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.

It was incredibly fun having Pilsner on swing lever and trying out all these pours. #swinglever #pouronce #beer

1873's 11 Restaurants and Saloons. 4 were later represented in the 1876 directory.
John Klein, Dealer in Wines and Liquors.
H. Lersch, Proprietor Saloon, 113 Main St.
Corneleous Morris, Proprietor Saloon, State St.
P. Rasmusson, Proprietor of Saloon, St. Clair St.

13 Saloons of Village of Burlington, Racine County:
Bollow C.
Bradshaw G. W.
Bushman B. J.
Dahl J.
Deitrich J.
Erdmann C.
Geheb M.
Hicks Win.
Konst L.
Laske Win.
Reis John
Rittman H. J.
Weiler N.

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...

the Swing Lever can't do the most core Czech pour. it is good at other things, but not a Lukr replacement. #swinglever #smoothpour

Pilsner Urquell, Sharp Pour, Swing Lever. Been waiting to get this beer on Japanese service for a good while. #swinglever #sharppour