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.

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

Poured a cloudy orange head with a off-white head. Aroma was pleasant juicy hop notes. Light tropical fruits, light sweetness. Really nice juicy finish. Can at the DC area socially distant Fall 2020 tasting.

Tried from Can on 30 Oct 2020 at 15:29


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

16oz can picked up at the state store. Pours hazy orange with a medium sized off-white head, good lacing. Pineapple juice, tropical, zesty, resin, pine. Good

Tried from Can on 28 Oct 2020 at 02:43


6.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

16oz can pours a hazy gold with some white head. Nose has melon, vanilla, pineapple. Flavor has the pineapple, oats, vanilla. Creamy finish.

Tried from Can on 24 Oct 2020 at 01:28


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

Orange and light cream. Milky orange pour with ok head. Lots of green onion in finish. Tall can from Craft beer cartel.

Tried from Can on 27 Sep 2020 at 22:28


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

16oz can picked up at the state store. Pours hazy dark orange with a medium sized off-white head, good lacing. Tropical, citrus, oranges, pineapple, resin, mild bitter finish. Good

Tried from Can on 13 Sep 2020 at 00:32


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

16oz can from Tavour, shared with a friend. Solid beer - awesome can. Good

Tried from Can on 11 Jul 2020 at 14:24


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Hazy reddish-pink pour with a medium thin pinkish-white head that burns away quickly to a film. Spotty lace. Aroma of berries, malt and slight hops. Medium body with flavors of citrusy hop, berry and biscuit malt. The finish is fruity with a citrus and berry aftertaste. Above average overall.

Tried on 07 Jul 2020 at 17:27


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

Can. Pours a hazy bright orange with a white head that dissipates nearly completely. Aroma has earthy citrus and a bit of dank guava with some sweet grains underlying. Flavor has earthy citrus and guava with a bit of earthy sweet grains backing.

Tried from Can on 05 Jul 2020 at 01:26


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5

Can. Pours a hazy yellow with a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has light sweet citrus, as bit of papaya and a sweet grain backbone. Flavor has dank citrus, a bit of papaya and some light sweet grains underlying.

Tried from Can on 04 Jul 2020 at 02:52


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

16 oz can from Tavour, 4/14/20. Canned 3/17/20. Conceptually this is amazing, like everyone else, I enjoyed (the first 2 minutes before it lost all the flavor) a piece of fruit stripe gum. As far as the beer equivalent goes, it's fruity, but I've had plenty fruitier in the current juice beer days in which we live. Still this is a tasty fruit juice hop brew, with mango, orange, melon, and some peach all coming through nicely. Papaya, pear, and grapefruit notes as well. Smooth and fairly sweet. Not overly sweet, but still pretty darn sweet. I may not be powerless to the juice needs, but I'm not going to pretend I'm not a fruit slave either. As the can says, Enjoy with people you trust, I'm drinking this with my 3 year old next to me, and I definitely trust her, so it is quarantine approved in my house! Happy fruiting to all! 8/4/8/4/17

Tried from Can on 15 Apr 2020 at 00:06