Pre-DLD Day

Calling all craft beer fans. We will be releasing our Barrel Aged Thundersnow on Friday April 26th. in a Pre- Dark Lord Day event.  You do not want to miss this release, we will sell out of our special release beer.  The event starts at 4pm here at the brewery with the release to start at 5pm.  Bottles will be sold for $15 each, with a 6 bottle limit per person.  We will have some special beers on tap; think back to last years party....  As stated you do not want to miss the premiere event leading in to Dark Lord Day.  You must be 21 to attend and tickets are not required but bottles will be sold on first come basis, so get in line early. Bottle sales are cash only. Pay attention to facebook and twitter for updates.

NRDC Craft Beer Tasting

Come out Monday April 22, 2013-Earth Day and support NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) and the Clean Water Act at Galleria Marchetti for a fundraising event.  This is the official launch of "Brewers for Clean Water" campaign.  There will be six local breweries in attendance: Flossmoor, Goose Island, Finch's, Revolution, Wild Onion, and Half Acre.  The breweries will be on hand to promote the fact that great tasting beer requires great tasting and clean water. Also in attendance will be Vosges bringing Wild Ophelia Chocoalte, yum! Tickets must be purchased for $50.  The ticket will include samples from all six breweries, hors d'oeuvures, Vosges chocolate, music by Gemini Club, and a souvenir pint glass.  You must be 21 to attend.  Location: Galleria Marchetti 825 W Erie, Chicago, IL 6-9pm  Hope to see you there showing your support. Purchase Tickets here: http://www.nrdconline.org/site/Calendar?id=100581&view=Detail

Delasser Tapping Tonight!

Delasser, our Belgian Pale Ale will be tapped tonight at 6pm.  There will be a private tapping for Mug Club Members in the Pub room from 5-6pm.  We brewed Delasser, a low gravity Belgian Pale Ale to grow our new Belgian Schelde yeast culture.  We will be using the yeast from Delasser to brew higher alcohol Belgian beers.  The first of which will be a Belgian Dubbel, my assistant Bill's first commercial release!

Delasser is refreshing to drink and will quench your thirst as the warmth of spring arrives.  It's the perfect companion for relaxing outside on a sunny day.  The spice and fruit flavors characteristic of the Belgian Yeast Strain bring complexity to this beer while the low gravity and gentle malt sweetness make it easy to drink

Cheers! 

The Chicago Beer Festival Union Station

If you missed out on Stout Fest over St. Patty's weekend here's your chance to make up for it if you have already purchased your tickets as this event is SOLD OUT.  The Chicago Craft Beer scene is growing at a rapid speed and that means you need to have your finger on the mouse and ready to go at an instant if you want to score the best tickets around. The Chicago Beer Fest is happening Saturday March 30th 1-4 and 6-9pm at Union Station's Great Hall.  The event will feature over 60 breweries, lots of local favorites: Goose Island, Lagunitas (soon to be local), Half Acre, Bells, and of course US!  We'll be bringing along some favorites for you to sample, Pullman Brown Ale and Panama Red Ale.  There will be food for sale so don't forget cash; there may be limited ATMs.

210 W Canal St. Chicago, IL 60606 1-4pm 6-9pm 21+ MUST have ticket to get in.  Please be responsible  and take a cab or public transportation Blue Line (Clinton) Brown/Orange/Pink Line (Quincy/Wells) Brown/Orange/Pink Line (Washington/Wells)

Goose Island Stout Fest 3/16/13

It's that time of year when all the amateurs will be out drinking $3 pints of the "Green Beer" and the beer geeks have forked over some cash to drink some of the areas finest dark beers, aka Stouts. For those of you lucky enough to score tickets, which were rumored to have sold out in 60 sec without any warning of them going on sale,  doors open at 12 pm (11 am MBA members) at Goose Island Clybourn.  Flossmoor will bring along two of it's finest Stouts, Iron Horse and Thundersnow. Iron Horse Stout 5.8% ABV, 42 IBU The malt bill has been simplified to create a balance of chocolate and roast, with a discernible American hop presence to balance.  Thundersnow 9% ABV, 67 IBU Rich and complex, this Russian Imperial Stout has every dimension of flavor coming into play.  Roasty and fruity with a noticeable presence of alcohol. Think bittersweet chocolate.
Flossmoor's very own Assistant Brewer Bill Savage will be on hand pouring and chatting with fellow beer geeks to answer any questions you may have about current Flossmoor Station and it's beers.

Goose Island Clybourn's annual Stout Fest will have 15+ area breweries and their brewers on hand, pouring their handcrafted stouts!


Breweries Attending: Atlas Brewing Co. Flossmoor Station Restaurant and Brewery Goose Island Clybourn Goose Island Beer Co. Half Acre Beer Co. Haymarket Pub & Brewery Lucky Monk Brewery Revolution Brewing Rock Bottom Chicago Rock Bottom Warrenville Pig Minds Brewing Co. Pipeworks Brewery Spiteful Brewing Two Brothers Brewing Wild Onion Brewery! Must be 21 to attend and have a pre-purchased ticket.  1800 W Clybourn 12-4pm

St. Paddy's Day Food and Beer

It's that time of year again to make corned beef and cabbage and we've got the perfect beer to pair it with, our very own Buddy Holly Barley Wine.  We're not alone in thinking it's a great beer to pair it with either.  The guys and gals over at craftbeer.com agree. "Slow-cooked corned beef with cabbage and root vegetables is a true Irish-American tradition. Irish immigrants used corned beef instead of the usual bacon when they arrived in America.Corned beef gets it robust flavor from a plethora of spices including mustard seed, dill, coriander, allspice, black peppercorns, bay leaves and clove. The tangy cabbage and a salty, flavor-packed corned beef needs the distinct intensity of a barley wine so the beer doesn't get lost. The strong taste and heavy alcohol content of a barley wine cuts through the meat and is able to stand up to the array of spices and textures from this hearty dish."  Read the article here for more information on food and beer pairings for this St. Patty's Day http://www.craftbeer.com/beer-and-food/st-paddys-day-pairings  Sláinte!

 

Buddy Holly Barley Wine: Toffee, sweet and malty with an array of fruit notes and aged in oak barrels which contribute a subtle bourbon, vanilla and oak flavor 9% ABV

Magwitch IPA Tapping

Magwitch IPA will be tapped tonight at 6pm.  There will be a private tapping for Mug Club members from 5-6pm in the Pub Room.  We brewed Magwitch to be aged in barrels for a bottle release in July.  The beer on tap tonight is the beer we had left after filling 4 oak barrels.  There is only a small amount.  It will be on tap for a limited amount of time.

Magwitch IPA is a historic English IPA.  100% English Pale Malt and 100% East Kent Golding Hops.  We based the recipe off of recipes from the 1800s.  Hense the name Magwitch.  Magwitch is a character from Great Expectations, a Charles Dickens novel written in 1861.

The beer is refreshing in its simplicity.  The beers malt sweetness lends way to fruity esters and hops, finishing dry.   A fitting reminder of where America's most popular style came from!

Hope to see you in for a pint!

-Bjorn

Barrel Aged Fireside Chat Release

The release for the barrel aged Fireside Chat will be this Saturday, Feb 23rd.  Tickets will be handed out at 10am.  There will be a 6 bottle limit.  $15 dollars/bottle.  Cash only.  The first 110 people will be guaranteed the limit.  We will also be serving barrel aged Fireside Chat on Draft.  $7 for an 8oz snifter or $3.75 for a 4 oz sample. 

Fireside chat was 1st brewed as a homebrew by Mark Westmeyer on 12-27-2010.  The grist was made up of pilsner base malt extract, pale chocolate, crystal 40, and crystal 60 (and a pinch of Cara Brown).  The hop additions were Nugget for bittering, Centennial, Chinook, and Amarillo at the end of the boil.  See the picture below to see Mark's homebrew set up!

When we brewed Fireside Chat with Mark at Flossmoor Station on August, 1st, 2011 our grist bill was 990lbs of TF Optic 2-row, 55 lbs of TF Chocolate , 50 lbs of Briess C-40, 50 lbs of Briess C-60 and 50 lbs of Evaporated Cane Juice.  The hop additions we used were 352 oz of Nugget and 14.2 oz of Summit for bitterning and 176 oz of Centennial Type, Summit and Galena at Whirlpool.

We did two separte mashes and used the weak runnings from the first mash as our strike water for the second mash.  It was a long brew day but we hit our original gravity of 28 degrees plato!  We used a California ale strain to ferment and the finished beer ended up being 11.1% abv.  Instead of releasing an 11.1% American Barleywine in August, Nick and I decided to take what we needed to enter the beer in the Pro Am category at GABF and barrel age the remaining 11.0 bbls into oak barrels.  We racked out 4 oak barrels with Mark (6.8 US bbls) Feb 5th, exactly 5 months after it had been racked into barrels.  Each barrel tasted different.  We blended all four together and the result is the delicious!

Hope to see you at the release this Saturday!

Bjorn

Bishop Park Blonde Tapping

Bishop Park Blonde, an English style blonde ale, will be tapped Monday, Feb 18th.  There will be a private tapping for Mug Club members in the pub room from 5-6pm.  Hope to see you there!

Polar Beer Festival

Flossmoor Station is excited to announce that we will be participating in the 3rd annual Polar Beer Festival!  The event is on February 16th from noon-4pm.   It is an outdoor winter event held on the rooftop patio of Rock Bottom Chicago.  The event features strong beers  (over 8% abv) from Rock Bottom and other local breweries.  We will be bringing our recently tapped Russian Imperial Stout, THUNDERSNOW (9% abv) and a taste of our upcoming Barrel-Aged Release, FIRESIDE CHAT (11.1%).  Hope to see you there!

Barrel Aged Pullman Reserve

Some more details regarding our release of the Barrel Aged Pullman Brown, the Pullman Reserve.

Release Saturday, January 26th, 12noon
$15/bottle, 5 bottle limit per customer

We'll be doing a revised "first come, first served" method, which we'll hand out tickets to those who arrive first, and call in numerical order until we run out. 

Cheers!

Barrel Aged Pullman Reserve

We're are releasing our Pullman Reserve, Gold Medal at the 2011 Festival of Barrel Aged Beer, on Saturday January 26th!

It's such a great pairing of rich, velvety chocolate brown porter fused with bourbon, vanilla and oak; and is perfect for the cold season.  We aged an exceptional batch of the Pullman Brown Ale in Woodford Reserve barrels for over 8 months, and will be bottling only about 50 cases for a very limited bottle release.

More information regarding limits, pricing, and time of release will be posted soon
Cheers!

12 Beers of Christmas

To celebrate the upcoming holidays, we're releasing 12 spiced, blended, steeped and hopped beers; starting today the 13th through the 24th.  We're tapping a new beer everyday, starting at 11:30am, and will be served all day or until it kicks.  Here's a list of what to expect!

Dec 13th - Corriander and Orange Zest 12.21 Ale
Dec 14th - Maple Syrup and Candied Pecan Pumpkin Lager
Dec 15th - Cold Pressed Coffee Barrel Aged Smoked Porter
Dec 16th - Cold Steeped Midnight Wheat Golden Opportunity Ale
Dec 17th - Star Anise Barrel Aged Imperial Schwartz
Dec 18th - Chocolate and Raspberry Imperial Schwartz
Dec 19th - Smoked Chile Pepper Smoked Porter
Dec 20th - Rooibos Steeped Golden Opportunity Ale
Dec 21st - Cinnamon Orange Peel and Nutmeg Golden Opportunity Ale
Dec 22nd - Passion Fruit Golden Opportunity Ale
Dec 23rd - Apricot 12.21 Ale
Dec 24th - Mango and Dry Hopped Golden Opportunity Ale

Cheers!

Barrel Aging Division (B.A.D.)

As regulars of Flossmoor, you may have noticed some missing beers in our lineup, which is only temporary and will be back soon.  But in the meantime, we've broken into our cellars and starting bringing out the goodies from B.A.D.

We have 4 barrel aged selections on tap currently, and are tapping 2 more tomorrow.  We'll even have a duo of flights featuring both barrel aged selections; the Petite Mutants for the sour ale selections, and the Wooden Forged for the bourbon barrel selections.  Both feature 3 four oz samples for $5

Most of these selections are true experimentations, ranging from a simple barleywine in second use bourbon barrels, to a wheat wine in bourbon barrels, to a sour Belgian IPA.  (the latter we'll be tapping tomorrow)

Cheers!

FoBAB Results are in!

The Festival of Barrel Aged Beer is such a great event and was well executed by our fantastic staff at the Illinois Craft Brewers Guild (a very big thank you to you all!)

Great beers were had by all, and some really creative experiments that I think were pulled off really well.  We were lucky enough to have two that were deemed exceptional, and for the life of me, I can't figure out why

The Imperial Schwartz won Gold in the Dark Strong Category and the .357 Brett won Gold in the Wild Beers Brettanomyces Category! 

Both are on tap currently at the Station, but may be departing soon, so please come down and enjoy and have a great holiday!

Cheers!

Jack the Pumpkin Lager

We have a delicious treat for the October month, which is Jack the Pumpkin Lager.   The lager yeast allows for the pumpkin flavors to really come thru, and spiced lightly but accordingly!

Jack will be carved on Monday the 8th
Cheers!

Shadows in the Smoke Oktoberfest

We'll be releasing the Shadows in the Smoke Oktoberfest in bottles this Saturday, at our annual Oktoberfest Party.  The bottle release will start at 4pm; 1 case per person limit; $10/bottle

Cheers!

Shadows in the Smoke Oktoberfest!

We're having our annual Oktoberfest Party this month, held on Saturday, September 29th, from 2-10pm; accompanied with beer in liter mugs, buffet and music!

We're also releasing our "Shadows in the Smoke" smoked Oktoberfest; both draft and in bottles.  The first tapping will be at 2pm, mug club members will get their first liter free, and the bottle release will start at 4pm.

More information regarding the bottles (price, quantity, etc) will come soon

Cheers!

A fine, noble belgian

We are tapping a new beer next Monday, the 16th, which will be the Noble Belgian, a Belgian Pale Ale hopped heavily, but not bitterly, with noble hops to give a unique floral aroma and flavor atop the fruit and spice of the belgian yeast!

Cheers!

Collaborations and Dunkels

We're tapping 2 new beers next Monday, the 2nd (already it's July????)

The MCAison collaboration with City Provisions, which we added fresh Rhubarb and Strawberries to the fermenter post-fermentation, great for summer drinking!

Also, we're tapping Chautauqua DunkelWeizen, a nice, slightly sweet, slightly toffee dunkelweizen!

Cheers!