Church Street Brewing Company

Microbrewery in Itasca, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Church Street Brewing Company

Established in 2012

Contact
1480 Industrial Dr, Unit C, Itasca, IL, 60143, United States
Description
The Church Street Brewing Company is a craft brewery located in Itasca – a western suburb of Chicago. We love what we do! We brew traditional and unpretentious lagers and ales that represent the old and new beer styles of European influence. A family business built on a dream to make quality beer for our loyal clientele. Although we have won several awards, our real passion is to serve our patrons with consistently good-tasting craft beer. We serve locally, nationally and internationally. Come on down and enjoy a beer and tour (free) of our brewery. We love to connect, converse and share our craft beer knowledge with fellow beer lovers! All are welcome!

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6.5
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Tasted from can at Goldfinger.
Reddish pour from the can. Smell is like a Jolly Rancher, but kind of creamy. Taste is actually pretty tart, yet dry. I don't know that much about prickly pear, except that it's a cactus too. But it may have given this flavor even without being in a sour beer. Vanilla as part of the package keeps it creamy.

Tried from Can at Goldfinger Brewing Company on 04 Jun 2025 at 02:32


7.1
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Taster from can with Church Street brewmaster. Not as cloudy as the style description might suggest. Slightly deeper golden pour from can. Smell of yeast, a bit of fresh cut hay. Taste is nicely “chewy”, work Underworld malts and a light hop load. Big filling finish.

Tried from Can at Goldfinger Brewing Company on 03 Jun 2025 at 22:51


6.5
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Taster pour from can with Church Street brewmaster. Typical golden pills color, a bit of white lacing. They didn't rinse the glass after the prickly pear, so I get a bit of that in the nose. 4.8%. Of course it's nice and smooth: tinge of lemon zest perhaps.

Tried from Can at Goldfinger Brewing Company on 03 Jun 2025 at 22:49


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Golden colour, tiny white head. Fruity, spicey aroma. Light-bodied. Belgian yeast esters, some spices. Very easy. At Fiala Brothers.

Tried from Draft on 17 Apr 2025 at 02:21


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Can, from the brewery. Pours opaque dark brown with a small frothy tan head, coffee aroma laced with strong spirits, low carbonation, semibitter coffee taste with strong alcohol overtones, smooth body, long coffee finish with alcohol aftertaste. Quite boozy.

Tried from Can on 09 Feb 2024 at 19:26


8.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Can. A- Lemon pie filling, meringue. A- Golden orange color, slightly hazy liquid, minimal white head. T- Lemon cream pie, sour. P- Light body, average texture, medium carbonation, tart finish. O- Several sours available that I wanted to choose from. Picked this over the tropical guava and the blueberry cream. This tasted like a lemon meringue pie, albiet a rather sour one. Really nice beer and not a smoothie style either which is appreciated. Good flavor, loads of lemon and vanilla cream. Smells and tastes like the sauce I like on Lemon Chicken from my local Chinese joint. Delicious stuff, wish I'd gotten the others now.

Tried from Can on 10 Dec 2023 at 20:55


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Can, from the brewery. Pours hazy dark yellow with a foamy light beige head, citrus peel aroma, adequate carbonation, medium bitter unripe mango-citrus peel taste, thin body, long citrus peel finish. Flavorful IIPA.

Tried from Can on 10 Dec 2023 at 20:03


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Draught @ the brewery. Faintly cloudy brownish red with a small frothy beige head, coffee aroma, medium carbonation, medium bitter coffee-caramel taste toffee, thin body, long bitter coffee finish. Nice brew.

Tried on 10 Dec 2023 at 20:01


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Pour is a dark ruby red with a large tan head. Aroma is a nice slight roasted nut with some bitter bakers chocolate. Flavor is ashy malt with slight mineral lager note. Aroma was better than the flavor but this was a spot on Czech dark.

Tried on 18 Nov 2023 at 23:31


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Pour is typical hazy ipa yellow with a huge white head. Aroma is some pear and white grape. Flavor is more pear maybe even some raisin. Very thin and a little bitterness on the end. Ok session ipa.

Tried on 18 Nov 2023 at 22:28