Tighthead Brewing Company

Microbrewery in Mundelein, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸

Established in 2011

Contact
161 N Archer Ave, Mundelein, IL, 60060, United States
Description
Tighthead Brewing Company is a craft brewery located in Mundelein, a suburb of Chicago. Our brewpub is a neighborhood institution where friends and families can meet up and enjoy great music, wonderful company, and the best beer in town. Since we opened our doors in 2011, we have poured our heart and soul into every glass. Stop in and taste what we're talking about!

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7.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
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Opaque, Hazy, Burnt Orange Que Color, Huge Dense White Foam Head, Creamy Top, Good Retention, Drippy Rings of Lacing. Malt, Mellow Hop Aroma. Wet, Malt, Slight Resin, Moderate Hop Bitter. Same in Aftertaste: Wet, Malt, Slight Resinous Notes, Hop Bitter. Nothing Stands out to Remember...Just OK.
Tried from Can on 26 Aug 2025 at 01:15

8/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 8 Texture 7 Overall 8
16 oz can from my Beerbox subscription. Aroma is roasty, cocoa, nuts, dark bread, vanilla. Taste is sweet and roasty with some bitterness in the background. Carbonation is a bit soft. More than solid overall.
Tried from Can on 09 Jun 2025 at 23:51

7.3/10 Appearance 9 Aroma 6 Flavor 7.5 Texture 7 Overall 7.5
Aroma is candy malt, grain, floral, pine. Taste has a high pithy bitterness backed by mild candy sweet malt.
Tried from Can on 19 Apr 2025 at 22:40

6.9/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
O'Hara Airport, Hub51, T5. Dark golden colour and small white head. Resiny, piney nose. Light-bodied to medium-bodied. Nice resiny, piney hoppyness. Citrus too. Lots of flavour for 4.8% pale ale.
Tried from Can on 19 Apr 2025 at 16:03

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Can shared at work. Pours a deeper golden with white head. Nose is citruses and light stone fruits. Taste is mid to high bitterness, showing citruses, light grassy notes and some pine. Closes with a dry finish, has a light body and soft to average carbonation.
Tried from Can on 17 Mar 2025 at 12:19

7.9/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 10 Overall 6.5
Can shared at work. Copperish golden pour with a white head. Nose is berries, melon, mango and papaya eith some tangerine. Taste is bitter and hoppy, showing berries, citrus pulp and orange peel, some pine and some grass. There’s a hint of malts in there too but basically no sweetness. Medium to heavy bitterness, the body is light to medium. Nice AIPA all in all.
Tried from Can on 17 Mar 2025 at 12:19

7.6/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 10 Overall 6.5
Can shared at work, courtesy of Nathan, thanks dude! Pours copper with a thin, off-white head. Nose is light caramel and bready notes, citrus zest and pine. Taste is citruses and light grassy notes upfront, with hints of pine, then there’s a sweetish malty, caramel touch and the finish is also dry and bitter. Medium to big bodied with average carbonation. Proper AIPA.
Tried from Can on 17 Mar 2025 at 12:19

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Sample at GTMW 2024, 8/10/24. Rating 22.3k! Hazy orange, thin head, average retention. Aroma of toffee, bread, citrus. Taste is toffee, raisin, caramel. Nice. Crisp.
Tried on 06 Jan 2025 at 11:45

6.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
Draught @ Old Town Pour House, Naperville IL (Oct 2024). Clear red-copper with a small foamy beige head, sweetish caramel malt aroma, high carbonation, mildly sweet caramel malt taste with some burnt/toasty notes, thin body, long finish. Good brew.
Tried on 29 Oct 2024 at 17:39

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16 oz. can. Nice malty beer smell as I'm pouring. Golden beer color under a frothy white head. Taste offers aromatic malt, then some sugar creeps in. But it's nicely done. No real bitterness detected. No alcohol noticed at all.
Tried from Can on 25 Jul 2024 at 03:18