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.

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6/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Can@PBF XIII (thanks GodOfThunder!). Hazy orangeish golden colour, small white head. Aroma is floral, fruity, some mild nectary tones with peaches. Flavour is floral, some herbal, fruity, mild and toffee and oaty tones.
Tried from Can on 02 Sep 2023 at 19:23

6.9/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
473ml can. PBF XIII. Thx Godofthunder. Poured unclear light orange in color. Sweet tropical fruits, light bitterness, quite nice overall.
Tried from Can on 02 Sep 2023 at 19:23

6.6/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Can 473ml (PBF XIII)
Thanks Jay! Hazy yellow colour, small white head. Juicy, a bit sweet, even a bit yeasty aroma. Light to medium-bodied. Sweetish juicy with some peaches and citrus. Ok.
Tried from Can on 02 Sep 2023 at 19:23

6.6/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
--Canned at PBF XIII. -- Clear golden, small head. Aroma of peach juice. Mid sweet with medium body and rounded mouthfeel. Peach and ripe fruit, mild citrus. Mid bitter finish.
Tried from Can on 02 Sep 2023 at 19:17

7/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
16oz can picked up at the state store. Pours hazy orange with a medium sized white head, good lacing. Smells and tastes like an orange creamsicle, sweet citrus. Good
Tried from Can on 25 Jun 2023 at 01:09

5.9/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
Can from Whippoorwill, Orlando. No date. Mojito glass @home. Barely hazy, jellied, dull, golden honey pour with a dense, sticky fluff of off-white head. Tropical, orange-y, sweet onion nose. Not getting the peaches yet. Taste is really juicy, white sangria & some sweet, sapy pine. I guess there could be peaches, but they're not a standout. Overall, it's a sticky, too sweet, resinous, hot, weak on the bubbles & kinda sharp. Pass.
Tried from Can on 18 Jun 2023 at 23:04

7.6/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Can: Poured a bright orange with a white head. Aroma is fruity, citrus, peaches, hoppy. Taste is hoppy, bitter, fruity, peaches.
Tried from Can on 12 Jun 2023 at 00:03

7/10
Sweet, alcohol, peanuts, cookies, biscuits, toffee
Tried from Can on 20 Dec 2022 at 18:50

6/10
Magus, pähklivõine, kohvi, nats hapukas, veits vesine. Ok.
Tried from Can on 20 Dec 2022 at 18:50

7/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Super hazy, chunky golden and peach coloured body with a thick, raw honey coloured glow, with a thinnish, single centimetre tall head, but the body itself is probably close to 90 per cent opaque. Aroma of rich lactose, oranges, sugars, malt, mangoes and a bunch of papaya and melons - very thick in the nose, all from the fruits and sugars, it seems. Full-bodied; Very strong mango, papaya and malt notes show through everything with a big fruitiness and a lot of dryness and sweetness at the end that produces some maltiness as well, with a light bitterness from the hops, but more is shown in the fruitiness from the hops than any bitterness. Aftertaste is rich, malty, with a good deal of mangoes and papaya notes here with the lactose really capping it all off and being pretty obvious, especially in terms of the body. Overall, not a bad unfiltered (and New England-ish) IPA, but not great and while closer to Imperial Status than some others, this still is just an unfiltered IPA that has some nice flavours, especially from the tropical fruits, without any real bitterness and a lot of flavours and body derived from the lactose. I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Knightly Spirits in Orlando, Florida on 12-February-2021 for US$5,99, sampled on the beach, at my hotel in West Palm Beach, Florida, the day before leaving on 14-February-2021.
Tried from Can on 14 Nov 2022 at 06:24