Ravinia Brewing Co. - Highland Park, Illinois
Heyoooooo, it’s our sexy homey Nick at Ravinia Brewing Co. in his sexy Hopsmash shirt. 🥰🥰🥰 Shameless plug. Good dude,...
Read moreChicago, IL • Founded: 2016 • https://hopsmash.com
We were already big-time visitors to craft breweries before we started Hopsmash in 2016. Ever since then, it's just given us an excuse to visit even more. To travel to more. To crawl to more. To go halfway across the world or the country to see more and drink their liquids of the gods. It's bad. Well, not bad. It's fucking phenomenal. We've made so many friends and probably some enemies along the way, seen so many great spaces and drank so many even greater beers, seen some fucking awful spaces and drank some even more awful beers, and had a damn good time doing it. We keep doing it. Because we love this culture and this industry and believe it or not, we love beer. Check out all of our reports below from all the places we've visited, unless we were too excited and forgot to take pictures and ended up doing other sordid things instead of paying attention to doing our jobs. Support your local brewery, dammit. And when we're in town, possibly have a beer with us, if you can stand meeting the people who write the bullshit you read on this blog. Salud!
Heyoooooo, it’s our sexy homey Nick at Ravinia Brewing Co. in his sexy Hopsmash shirt. 🥰🥰🥰 Shameless plug. Good dude,...
Read moreWe had an extra day in Palm Springs after the softball tournament, so we went up, up, up into the...
Read moreSome rain and cold B.S. hit us here in Palm Springs 😢 but we did our best with it by...
Read moreHad no clue about Carolina Bauernhaus until we were already in Anderson, SC, and saw it on the map. 🗺...
Read moreDropped in on Steve and Ted at Brother Chimp and had the opportunity to mouth hump a pair of Cashmere...
Read moreWhilst in South Carolina, we rolled down to Anderson with the gang to bask in the beery deliciousness of Magnetic...
Read morePopped my Sturdy Shelter cherry this weekend and got to see (and hug) one of the Hopsmash superstars of Chicago...
Read moreWhile still in Clemson for softball, we made a late eve slide over to Kite Hill for some tasties with...
Read moreThe niece’s softball travel - Go ‘Cats 💜🤍💜🤍 - necessitates travel I’ll never be mad at, and going new places...
Read moreOops, another brewery stop here in Macon, GA. 🤷♂️ The space at Fall Line is badass, with a huge beer...
Read moreKeeping in line with the sunny day we had in Macon, we sat outside and banged back a few at...
Read morePit-stopped in Macon, GA, for a few days, and did our damndest to slide through all the breweries and drink...
Read moreWe always hit Crooked Thumb when we’re in Safety Harbor, and we did this time as well, but we finally...
Read moreHit up Dented Keg here in New Port Richey to try a few beers before dinner 😃 ended up staying...
Read moreBbbback to Tarpon Springs, Florida, this time to sit on the patio and slug back some goodness from the fine...
Read moreAng and I took a day trip to the artsy seaside town of Gulfport, not even looking for a brewery...
Read moreAfter hitting up Unrefined down the street, Ang and I moseyed in to Two Frogs and continued on our merry,...
Read moreWell, this was the start of a very 😵💫 day here in Tarpon Springs, and I ain’t mad at it....
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