About
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.
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
355ml can from Beer52 Chicago box @ 5.5%. Pours a hazy orange-gold, small white head, ok retention. Aroma of sweet malts, overripe passionfruit, citrus, floral, slightly funky. Taste is sweet, herbs, pineapple, citrus, floral. A fairly full body for the strength so not a refreshing sessionable pale but the flavours linger. That would normally be good but its very sweet and hoppy. Tasty but slightly sickly at the same time so balance not quite right. Interesting flavoursome beer though.
Tried
from Can
on 31 Dec 2024
at 02:23
LCI, better as it warms. 2018, so not much peanut left. Touch at the end. Very malt forward, milk chocolate, roasty
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Nov 2024
at 15:50
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Black with a large foamy beige head. Roasty and toasty with cookie, vanilla and a hint of booziness. Long finish. Moderately full bodied.
Tried
on 25 Sep 2024
at 21:09
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Slightly hazy yellow with a small white head. Yeasty with notes of melon and citrus. Medium finish and body.
Tried
on 25 Sep 2024
at 21:06
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Orange with a medium sized white head. Tart, tangy and yeasty with a strong grape kool-aid note. Medium finish and body.
Tried
on 25 Sep 2024
at 21:05
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Hazy gold with a large foamy head that left good lacing. Musty , grainy, yeasty and citric. Long finish. Medium body.
Tried
on 25 Sep 2024
at 21:03
3.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
Golden with a large white head. Cracker, corn and faint floral hops. Medium finish and body.
Tried
on 25 Sep 2024
at 21:02
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft at B&G. Mostly a yeasty farmhouse nose. Hazy gold, short-lived foam. First taste brings in the white rind-y side of a watermelon slice. No extra sweetness, or unfiltered watermelon pulp. Did not get the expected watermelon taste, in other words. Gets back to a slightly sweet, still yeasty farmhouse beer taste. Still something different, and I can get behind that. Some slight tart wraps it up.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Sep 2024
at 17:22
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can, from Beermiscuous, Chicago (Fall 2023). Pours hazy bright yellow-orange with a large spongy whitish head that has good retention, citrus-mango aroma, adequate carbonation, medium bitter citrus-pineapple-mango-apricot flavors, smooth thin body, long juicy finish. Flavorful!
Tried
from Can
on 23 Jul 2024
at 14:05
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draught @ Union, Chicago (Sept 2023). Clear rich amber with a foamy beige head, caramel malt aroma, adequate carbonation, slightly sweet caramel malt taste with faint grassy hops, thin body, long caramel malt finish. Well balanced Marzen.
Tried
on 15 May 2024
at 22:19