Off Color Brewing

Happy Halloween!! Can you identify all these characters from beers past in our “Staveyard.” Just because these beers haven’t hit shelves in a while doesn’t mean that they won’t back from the other side eventually….

What Off Color beer would you like to see return?

Also available is the new Mousetrap .25l tasting glass featuring the Off Color mouse wielding a flamethrower in front of the stunning city line reflected back in Chicago’s very own Bean.

Glass: www.offcolorbrewing.com/merch/beangl...

Got some sweet new merch in today!

Our red rugby style shirt features the Off Color Brewing rugby mouse embroidered on the chest and is fashionable for a night out but sturdy enough to withstand a good scrum. Heads up that they run a little oversized.

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About a week later, on Saturday, Nov 8th, we’ll throw our annual FOBAB Saturday anniversary party where we’ll release a whole mess of new beers and take a deep dive into our cellar for one of our best draft lists of the year. More info coming on all that.

Hope to see you this week and next week.

Not wanting to forget our humble Halloween beginnings, this Friday (10/31) we’ll be releasing a brand new beer brewed to celebrate Mousetrap’s eighth anniversary. Beer for Cake is a Black Forest cake inspired Marzen with black cherry juice, lactose, and cocoa nibs.

NEW BEER ALERT!!

October 31st, 2017 we quietly opened Mousetrap to the public for one night. A few days later we loudly announced our official opening and had an appropriately epic celebration on FOBAB Saturday. That was so much fun it’s become a yearly tradition.

New “Beer for” coming soon…

The final result is a beer that tastes great and is twice as filling!

Available on draft and 4pks of 16oz cans at Mousetrap on Thursday. Distro to follow.

We added as much fermentable sugar as our equipment and yeast can tolerate and then conditioned the beer on 50% more crushed vanilla beans and 50% more cocoa nibs than we’ve ever used before. A moderate dose of lactose sugar provides additional sweetness.

While OG DinoS’mores focuses on Scandinavian brewing techniques which place a greater emphasis on variety of roasted malts and drier body to create bitterness, Double Stuffed DinoS’mores captured the American brewing spirit of cramming way too much into the same sized package.

Like a perfectly toasted marshmallow, the flavor teeters between honey and roasted but avoids any burnt notes. The heavy alcohol only lurks well after the brew is quaffed but will leave you feeling as warm as leaving your shoes too close to the campfire.

We got a second release coming Thursday at Mousetrap!!

Double Stuffed Dino S’mores is a bigger, bolder variant of our classic Dino S’mores Imperial S’more stout. Bold sweet confectionery chocolate aromatics give way to a rich, creamy mouthfeel.

Bustling and full of life and lust like the hometown throng leaving a victorious Chicago Fire match. A rare occurrence filled with pride, zeal, and hope.

Available on draft and 375ml bottles to-go Thursday at Mousetrap.

None the less, two years later Orange Ghost emerged.

Lively acidity & a fruit salad potpourri of kiwi, candied lime, green strawberry, and blossom honey surge forth over a china bone white foam. Palate is a crowded affair of peach flesh, honeydew melon, cherries, & white pepper.

The soil is an amalgam of “wind deposited ancient or sedimentary alluvials and decomposed basalt over a lime-silica hard pan” which the grower makes sound of great importance but we are but simple brewers and that goes entirely over my head.

Orange Ghost follows this methodology using our collaborative wild fermented wit beer “Ghost Lemons” made with Allagash in 2023. Five hectoliters of the beer was racked into a mature Italian wine puncheon and laid to rest on top a bed of crushed Roussanne white grapes.

Unlike conventional modern white wines, they are typified by allowing a period of skin contact after white grapes are crushed in a process more akin to red wine production. This skin contact extracts additional tannins, phenols, and of course color compounds.

Boo! We got a ghost themed beer!! This October apparition drops Thursday at Mousetrap.

Orange wine is a lesser known but increasingly popular subset of natural and minimal intervention wines going back likely thousands of years to the Eastern European country of Georgia.

If it actually DOES happen today I'm driving up to the @offcolorbrewing.bsky.social Mouse Trap and getting LOADED

NEW MERCH ALERT!

This forest green hockey style hoodie features the Off Color Athletic Department logo on the front and Pond Hockey Mice imagery on the back. This one is as soft as it is comfy as it is stylish. Now available online & at the taproom.

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Pencil sketch of mice brewing beer in the style of Off Color Brewing label art. There is scaffolding set up so they can reach various parts of the fermentation vessel. One at the top is about to drop an onion into the beer, and another is running up the stairs to stop them.

I'm a little behind on October drawing, so I combined two prompts from different lists, and ended up with something about to go terribly wrong at @offcolorbrewing.bsky.social.

Flavor wise expect a complex blend of watermelon rind and candy fruitiness wafting from the slightly pink-hued ale. Mild sweetness with saline mouthfeel play against the watermelon overtone. The dry and bright finish will leave you racing for more.

Available Friday at noon.

Just in time for next weekend’s #chicagomarathon, Beerathon releases tomorrow when Mousetrap opens at noon. This fancy light beer with watermelon and salt clocks in at an appropriately sessionable 2.62%, comes in 6pks of 16oz cans, and pairs perfectly with a post-run cooldown.

They had 3 left at Bucktown as at the time of this post

Beguilingly aromatic and seductively spirited - this is a lager for bourbon lovers. Don’t sleep on this limited release. Long in the making, it will be quick to disappear.

Available exclusively at Binny’s locations.

Via Binny’s: Ever tasted a Beer for Burgers? Not like this you haven’t. We’re talking about the Royale with Cheese - helles bock, lagered for 10 months in Binny’s handpicked bourbon barrels from Wild Turkey and Four Roses!

This one should make fans of the OG Beer for Burgers happy.

We’ve teamed with Binny’s Beverage Depot to age lager in bourbon barrels once again and ten months later, we’re proud to introduce Royale with Cheese.

Make sure to snag some of this delightful beer while it’s still available. Limited Distro to follow.

After a limited early release last weekend, Wet Hopped Beer for Pizza is back on draft and available to-go at the taproom. This seasonal riff on Crispy Beer for Pizza packs at extra punch of hoppiness from the Chinook wet hops from our friends at Hop Head Farms.

Da Capybaras Fitted Hat — Off Color Brewing Flex fit fitted hat featuring Off Color Brewing Da Capybaras logo embroidered on the front.

New Da Capybaras flexfit hats available online and at the taproom! www.offcolorbrewing.com/merch/dacapy...