Past Events

  If you like meatballs like we do, you won't want to miss National Meatball Day this Saturday, March 9! We will be featuring our Belgian-style meatballs: Stoneface Pastures & Family Farm pork, Seven Seeds Farm beef, caramelized onion and mushrooms in St.Bernardus cream sauce. All day long you can enjoy an order of meatballs + a small pour of St. Bernardus Abt12 for $13.

  Join us on Thursday March 14th as we taste through some of our newest beers and a couple of well-cellared gems. Space is limited, so call or drop in to reserve your spot! Full beer list is below: Lion's Tail Brewing Juice Cloud (hazy IPA) Evil Twin Dontcha Know (imperial stout) Omnipollo Agamemnon (maple imperial stout) Nightmare Brewing Scaphism (imperial stout w/honey, lactose, vanilla beans, cacao) Georgenbrau Kellerbier (unfiltered German lager) Alvinne Sour'ir de Mortagne (sour quad aged in…

  Every year, we honor the most unique Trappist ale in the world with a special feature and giveaway. Orval is singular among Trappist ales, known both for its assertive hop profile and use of brettanomyces (a strain of yeast that throws off funky, barnyard-y phenolics) at bottling. For such a relatively low-abv ale at 6.8%, it ages phenomenally, which is why we offer multiple vintages on our menu. To that effect: come in on Saturday, March 23rd, buy a…

  If any beer style truly embodies the Schrodinger’s Cat concept, it is lambic/gueuze. Hyper traditional in nature, the very process by which lambic and gueuze are produced (not to mention the region in which it is produced) is tightly controlled in much the same manner of the Champagne appellation. On the other side of the same coin, it is has survived the rise and plateauing of pastry stouts and hazy IPA hype-cans to maintain pinnacle collector status. Lambic’s popularity…

  As has become our tradition here at Brasserie V, we're partnering with original mad scientist brewers Dogfish Head to celebrate Record Store Day! We'll have three DFH beers on tap, and an opportunity to win a turntable supplied by Dogfish Head. Check below for the beers, and support your local music store in the meantime! Dragons & Yum Yums (6.5% abv) Only Dogfish Head and the walking, singing fever dream that is the Flaming Lips could come up with…

  If you're a regular here at Brasserie V, you know that you can usually come in here and find at least one Pipeworks beer on tap. Whether it's one of their stellar hoppy offerings, a super-traditional, clean pilsner, or a completely bonkers imperial stout (Cookies n' Cream Jones Dog, anyone?), they're one of our favorite Chicago-land breweries. You also know that you can't come in here without one of our servers or bartenders showing you four different pictures of…

  So you like beer, huh? Fancy yourself a connoisseur? A maven? A historian? Well then, we invite you to, um...put your palate...where your mouth is? No, that doesn't make any sense... Anyway, see if that palate of yours is as educated as you think it is. We'll be presenting eight beers in this tasting: one classic and one modern example of traditional beer styles. The best part? You'll be tasting them blind, and we'll challenge you to not only…

  Brouwerij der Trappisten van Westmalle has been producing classic Trappist abbey ales for well over a century now. Fiercely dedicated to quality and tradition, they have only ever made three beers: two of them, Tripel and Dubbel, are widely considered to epitomize their respective styles, hence their ability to get away with such a definitive, simplistic name. The third, Extra, is rarely found outside the immediate proximity of the abbey. Until recently, though Westmalle bottles have been a fairly…