Off Color Brewing

Grab your copy of the book and nibble on cheese as you drink through a series of world-renowned Trappist beers and Belgian styled Off Color beers including a new Port Barrel Aged version of our Belgian Quad Growl.

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Join us February 22nd (multiple sessions) for a relaxed brewery open house, meet-and-greet session, and Trappist beer tasting with Dr. Marty Tomszak, author of the newly released Time, Silence, and Yeast: A Song of Appreciation for Trappist Communities and Their Beer.

Today at noon

Granny Smith apple tart, lightly citrus saison fermented with native, wild yeast in one of our Sangiovese wine puncheons act as backdrop for the tropical, mango-banana weirdness that make Paw Paws and Frank Zappa so distinct. Also don’t miss the sweet new trash panda glass.

Large, hard to remove seeds and a window of ripeness measured in days. We swore we would never again BUT some cool gents from Southern Illinois run a Paw Paw festival and provided frozen, de-seeded pulp! Huzzah!!

Also known as Swamp Apples, Hoosier Bananas, and a number of similar folksy nicknames, Paw Paws are still somewhat unknown as they are almost the antithesis of a commercially viable fruit. Thick, tough, easily bruisable skin.

NEW BEER ALERT!!

We said we’d never make it again, but here we are like 6-7, yeah we said it, years later and Paw-Paw is back. The largest fruit indigenous to North America, Paw Paws taste like a heady mixtape of vanilla custard, tropical mango, and overripe banana.

Our most colorful shirt yet has arrived! Capycorn tie-dye shirts are now available online and at the taproom. Check back here in the next day or two for more information on the actual beer release ;)

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Yes. Taproom is OPEN and patios are OPEN on this beautiful February summer day.

Forgot a Valentine’s Day card? Feel free to print this one :)

And as a special treat, bourbon from the actual Wolf Point/Beer on the Wall house pick barrel will be available as both neat pours and in cocktails so you can trace the lineage and nuance of this auspicious pair.

This ruby hued cherub plays Juliet to Wolf Point’s Romeo in a bourbon barrel hand selected by Beer on the Wall and further cellared for an additional year at Mousetrap. Only two kegs remain in existence so don’t dawdle lest this becomes another story of woe in a Capulet crypt.

In celebration of Valentine’s Day, Mousetrap is tapping a special release of our native fermented Reine des Renards Framboise aged in a French Calvados foedre with raw apple cider and Michigan grown raspberries.

A sneak preview from an upcoming project 🤫

Some empty can bodies arrived at the brewery for a future beer. Might have to start calling us On Color when these Capycorn cans drop in a couple weeks. #chicagobeer #offcolorbrewing

Beer for Sales! We got Beer for Sales!!

This Saturday and Sunday only, stock up for the big game with 20% off all to-go beer purchases at Mousetrap. This deal is for in-person purchases only. #chicagobeer #offcolorbrewing

Extra special beer alert!!

Few things are more British than the game of bowling which has been enjoyed in Britain since the 13th century. And few beers are as iconicly British as the ESB.

Now available on draft and to-go at Mousetrap and around Chicago area.

Picture of a beer menu that reads: OVERFED GOATS DOPPELBOCK 15% A bigger, bolder, brasher "triplebock" made to cope when the daily high is below zero. At 15% aby its alcohol lights your own fire and quickly makes one forget about the bluster outside. 8oz 12 PORT BARREL AGED SCOURGE SPECIALTY STOUT 9% Scandinavian style imperial stout with native yeasts aged in Port barrels with cocoa nibs. Expect noles of dried fruits, leather, and raspberry filled chocolates. 8oz 9 TEN CROWNS DARK LAGER 5.5% A lager full enough to satisfy the urge for comfort from the winter cold yet light enough to drink year round. Full bodied and rich with delicate notes of warm bread, roasted cocoa sweetness, and a hint of dark fudge with spicy earthy notes from traditional noble hopping 8oz 6 16oz 8 WELL FED GOATS DOPPELBOCK 9.5% Our first ever doppelbock lager (how is that possible?) features a wall of richness built out of bricks of sweet malt and mortar of rosy booze mixed with dark stone fruits. 8oz 8.

(@offcolorbrewing.bsky.social don't read this) Nobody will notice if I just spend the night here, right?

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We're donating a portion of proceeds of all draft sales of Overfed Goats to The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.

We stand with immigrants, due process, the Constitution, and the ideals behind it. No human being is illegal and the pursuit of freedom is both a natural human right and a fundamentally American belief. The actions of ICE are contrary to those beliefs & our shared moral compass.

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And few beers are as iconicly British as the ESB with its signature East Kent Golding hops, adding notes of lavender and honey, and superb balance between butterscotch, biscotti cookie malts and a mild earth bitterness. We’d score it a perfect 300. Now available at Mousetrap.

One beer release isn’t enough for you? Well. We got a second.

Beer for Bowling makes its triumphant return today after more than a handful of years. Few things are more British than the game of bowling which has been enjoyed in Britain since the 13th century.

There’s a single keg and when it’s gone, it’s gone. If only the frigid temperatures would be as transient. Tapped Friday at Noon.

P.S. Come for Well Fed Goats and Stay for Overfed Goats.

The draft only Overfed Goats is a bigger, bolder, brasher “triplebock” made to cope when the daily high is below zero. At 15% abv its alcohol lights your own fire and quickly makes one forget about the bluster outside.

NEW BEER ALERT!!

Well Fed Goats, our first ever doppelbock lager (how is that possible?), features a wall of richness built out of bricks of sweet malt and mortar of rosy booze mixed with dark stone fruits.

Now available on draft and in 12oz can 6pks to-go at Mousetrap.

This set of interconnected character stories explores themes of of history, family, oppression, economic inequity, and addiction as it follows members of the Oakland area Native American community in the lead up to a community powwow.

Hope to see you there there :)

READ BOOKS AT BARS!

Also. Off Color Book Club meets on Tuesday, February 17th at 7pm! This month’s choice is Tommy Orange’s debut novel, There There.

The best solution to snow and cold? Hot cocktails & vintage stouts!

Mousetrap is open today & we’re serving up our Dino S’mores Hot Chocolate & Hot Toddy inspired Masala Cat Fiend as well as breaking into the cellar to bring out a few bottles of Polar S’moretex (on-site only).

This should be fixed now. Sorry for the stress. It’s not the most expensive glass ever to ship. We swear.