Half Acre – Chicago Beer Week Events & Beer Releases (Galactic Double Daisy Cutter)

The beer is cresting and about to break all over Chicago, for this is Craft Beer Week: May 16th – 26th, 2013. We’re paddling into the approaching set and pleased with how we’re poised to ride it out.

A week dedicated to beer forces us to consider how we want to celebrate. A brewery is rooted in celebration, in communion and ritual. We brew beer for a living, and while our role is to offer you beer, the larger task is to supply you with a rich element in a much larger existence. As individuals, we came to know beer as something that was appreciated while exploring the greater expanse. You touch glasses, acknowledge the beer and let it guide you towards your conquests.

We’re surveying what the approaching days mean and we’re honoring the essential truth: The beer means little without your ability to take it on a good ride. Search out the fierce beers, but remember to be fierce yourself. Toss back the big beers, but remember to be as big as your beer.

We’ve brewed a couple beers to take along on your travels:

Galactic Double Daisy Cutter — we’ve ushered this goon out a number of other times. Galaxy hops brought out in force and draped over the frame of Double Daisy Cutter, the chunkier version of the original Daisy Cutter, which lives and breathes all over this city.

Navaja Double India Pale Ale — This is the first time we’ve brought this out of its scabbard. We’ve never released a Double IPA – and this will make its debut at our 5th Anniversary Party on 5/17. Attacking your ability to make good choices, this bully quickly becomes your best friend.

We see a lot of things out there about moving beyond the IPA and folks shirking hop forward beer in pursuit of something more elegant, something never done, maybe an unknown spice that’s escaped brewers thus far. And while all these things are great and conversations about whether or not your palette can pick up that hint of Urfa Biber are fine and good, we’re going to belly up to the hoppiest bucket of nuts you can offer each and every time.

So, this is for you Chicago. We live and drink beer in a badass city, let’s suck it up.

~Gabriel, Half Acre

Galactic Double Daisy Cutter Release Details