Illuminated Brew Works
Microbrewery
in
Chicago,
Illinois,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Illuminated Brew Works
Established in 2014
Contact
415 N Sangamon St, Chicago, IL, 60642, United States
Description
Illuminated Brew Works is a Chicago-based brewery producing beer for interesting times. From big, hazy IPAs, to yeast-driven urban farmhouses, adjunct-rich stouts and experimentally-driven sours and fruit beers, our offerings rotate seasonally to celebrate the annual cycle.
Please enjoy with people you trust.
Please enjoy with people you trust.
8/10
No joke, candy IPA, super sweet back but in a white sugar way not in an over malted way. It's a crazy flavor, hard to describe better than I just did, really. Did you ever want to just literally binge on white sugar? Here you go.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jun 2018
at 19:40
7/10
No idea how to explain this, sweet and roasted malt nose, sweet milk front and coffee notes, lots of vanilla. But not as thick as I'd like.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jun 2018
at 16:44
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
A deep dark stout with a thin mocha head. In aroma, sweet fruity chocolate malt with light cinnamon notes, light vanilla, light powdery character, nice and smooth. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity chocolate malt with light cinnamon notes, cloves, light mineral notes, very nice., 8-3-8-3-14
Tried
on 02 Jun 2018
at 14:45
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle shared at Zack's Epic Tasting. Pours a clearish gold with a finger of foam that lingers. Dried citrus peel and light grapefruit aromas on the nose. Smooth on the palate, with caramel malt, pine and citrus standing out. Easy drinking with good balance between malt and hops. Medium bitterness finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 May 2018
at 05:32
7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 May 2018
at 20:51
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pretty good stuff. The aroma is amazing with fresh hops that are citric and even a little bit orangie like. There's enough malt in there to stand up to it in both Aroma and flavor just bitter enough for balance and the right kind of carbonation for a very nice beer.
Tried
on 10 May 2018
at 03:58
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
750 ml bottle. Not sure how 7% is considered "Double IPA" by the brewers, but hey, whatever floats a Brony's boat. Aroma is candied citrus, earth, yeast, bananas foster, bread, pepper. Pours extremely murky pus yellow-brown with a finger-plus bone-white head with good retention. Taste is candy sweet, mild to moderately bitter. Flavor is really reminiscent of bananas foster, but way different than the banana esters you'd get in say, a traditional German Hefeweizen. I keep thinking strawberry shortcake, too, but that might just be the label influencing that observation. Perfect mouthfeel. Tasty stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 May 2018
at 06:05
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Understated fresh hop Aroma along with a little pale malt and wet grain. Flavors are like nose nothing remarkable at all. Average body unremarkable finish drinkable beer but also forgettable.
Tried
on 10 Apr 2018
at 03:09
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Taster at Standard Market, Westmont. Color is slightly darker than a light pilsener, head is creamy like a nitro pour. Nice clean malt smell. First taste is indeed herbal and floral, perhaps a bit too much for even a Belgian wheat. Luckily there is still plenty of malt taste to make it worthwhile. Coffee notes are very much in the background; the impression is more of a sweetened cocoa. I think, though, this may have too much going on, even for a wit.
Tried
on 18 Aug 2016
at 23:32
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle - pours gold white head - nose/taste of banana, coriander, clove and spicy wheat - med body
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Aug 2016
at 20:57