Breaking Down and Setting Up

We officially moved our belongings to our new home 4257 N. Lincoln Ave. Initially we only had time to cram everything in a corner because we flew out to Denver to decommission all the brewing equipmen...
Posted by on Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:52:00 GMT

4257 N. Lincoln Ave

4257 N. Lincoln will semi-officially be the new home of Half Acre Beer Co. We made it over the community meeting hurdle, so that's big. This meeting was the opportunity for the community to come out a...
Posted by on Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:32:00 GMT

Beer Monsters

Wow. Companies are melding together rapidly. What a strange time in the corporate culture of large scale brewing. They're creating bigger gangs from already big gangs in order to compete with the othe...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:30:00 GMT

Fields

This past weekend was packed with Half Acre events. On Saturday a group of us trucked out to Toyota Park to be counted as Chicago Fire fans. Some friends of ours are members of Section 8, the official...
Posted by on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:35:00 GMT

Secured Hops

You may or may not have heard that hops are pretty hard to come by these days. When you do find them, they're very expensive.I've covered all this before so I won't bore you with more sad stories of t...
Posted by on Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:04:00 GMT

Thomas Nicely

Getting to this point in our company's history has been a patchwork process. We've done our best with the resources at hand, and have done well, having fun and learning the entire time.With the impend...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:20:00 GMT

Over Ale

We here at Half Acre Beer Company currently reside on the fourth / fifth floor of a converted factory on the near-west side of Chicago. Our headquarters is a modest loft-style space in the ICNC build...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:40:00 GMT

To Brew In Our House

We recently made the purchase of a new (to us), old 15 BBL brewhouse. I can't tell you how good it feels to have made this purchase. It sinks up so many things and brings us one huge step closer to ou...
Posted by on Fri, 30 May 2008 09:17:00 GMT

10 Mile Beer Delivery

This Past Saturday a brave bunch met at Monroe Harbor, a little harbor that sits half-way up the coast of Chicago on Lake Michigan. The goal was to walk 10 miles north in order to hand deliver a case...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:45:00 GMT

Brew House hunting in CO

Our head of all things brewery, "Matt the Engineer," has flown to Colorado to look at a brew house that a fellow brewing company is selling. Purchasing this equipment would be a huge step forward for...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:16:00 GMT