Marz Community Brewing Co.

Microbrewery in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Life on Marz Community Club

Established in 2013

Contact
3630 S Iron St, Chicago, IL, 60609, United States
Description
We're a close-knit group of brewers, artists, lumpens, and friends. We launched Marz Community Brewing Co to bring something new to Chicago and beer.

Marz Community Brewing Co makes small, artisanal batches of beer in a sustainable and socially responsible manner. Marz supports various cultural and social platforms that help us build the community of the future.

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

Can thanks to cgarvieuk. Appearance - cloudy orange. Beige head. Nose - dank and earthy. Taste - orange and earthy. Light resin. Palate - dry and light to medium bodied. Overall - so so.

Tried from Can on 20 Sep 2021 at 12:41


5

can at ashs... hazy amber... thin white lacing... soft herbal green hop nose. oily fruit.. odf

Tried from Can on 20 Sep 2021 at 12:38


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Can at ash's. Pours orange, nose is toffee, savoury, citrus, taste is sweet, fruity, dry finish.

Tried from Can on 20 Sep 2021 at 12:38


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

Fluffy off white head left a froth on a very murky amber body. Resin, over ripe fruit & hoppy aroma. Medium to full bodied, tingly with a ticket smooth back. Apricot, stewed fruit, pith & tangy tastes with an extremely bitter hoppy finish. Class!

Tried on 05 Sep 2021 at 20:32


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

Floral aroma. Taste is a flavorful lager, crisp, dry finish with a nice subtle sweetness and herbal flavor.

Tried on 17 Jul 2021 at 01:26


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Can, 0.355l. Aroma of citrus, resin, mango, pineapple, flowers and herbs. Pours hazy dirty yellow orange color with medium sized soapy off-white head and sparkling appearance. Taste starts moderate sweet biscuity, juicy tropical fruity and citrusy, following is faint medicinal, herbal and stone fruity, mouthfeel is smooth with slight astringency and pretty bitter finish. Medium to full body, creamy texture and average carbonation in palate. Flower-fruity-power...

Tried from Can on 05 Jun 2021 at 14:33


6

Deep brownish red, very little offwhite head. Light, malty, bitter. Quite floral, some caramel, a bit of sweetness. No match for Fullers. Nice.

Tried from Can on 02 Apr 2021 at 17:32


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

"Imperial stout with coconut, coffee, chocolate and vanilla" from Marz, a brewery in Chicago, which I believe is the city with the highest number of craft breweries in North America; can from Bier Bazaar - and cheers to my colleague Lode's description of the label below, I could not describe it any better. Medium thick, quickly opening, deep yellowish-beige, fine-bubbled head initially retaining as a creamy ring and some veils in the middle but disappearing afterwards, over a black beer with deep burgundy red edges of no more than a few millimetres. Intriguing bouquet of chocolate sauce, fudge, bourbon, indeed coconut flakes, latté macchiato, cold Irish coffee, 'drop' and liquorice, vanilla already retreated to the background a bit but still very noticeable, hazelnut paste, roasted chicory, molasses, hints of shower gel, wodka, heavily sauced black pipe tobacco but not dominantly so. Dense, sweet onset, candied dates, rum-soaked raisins, very light sourish undertone offering a bit of balance against the overall sweetness, refinedly carbonated but still with minerally effects gently piercing through a very full, oily, smooth body; 'deep' layers of toffeeish, black-chocolatey and sweet-cashew-nutty malts ensue, filling the mouth cavity with a big, bold bittersweetness, though sweetness clearly prevails, accentuated by the actual added chocolate (adding to the chocolate sauce experience) and the vanilla, which does pop up retronasally. The coconut, something I love as long as it does not cross my path every single day and remains 'pure' and natural, is certainly there, but less strongly so than expected; instead the booze takes over in the end, very bourbon-like and very 'American' in a way, while the coffee gradually overshadows the coconut (also retronasally, in a refined aromatic way). Some coffeeish roasted bitterness supports this coffee aroma, but the chocolate never goes away and the whole ends like a liquid 'chocomousse' flavoured with coffee (and bourbon). The booze in itself could have been a bit more subtle for me (becoming rather wry in the very end) and the sweetness should not be this heavy either, but it cannot be denied that a beer like this embodies American style imperial stout anno 2021, a style imitated all through the Western world today. I cling to the idea that a bit less booziness and (much) less sweetness would make even a pastry stout like this better, but I guess this is what today's craft beer crowds want, and I have to admit that in its genre, this is very well made, with extra points for its alluring, expressive, flawlessly desserty aroma. --- Beer merged from original tick of King Kona Vs. Marzilla on 19 Feb 2021 at 23:44 - Score: Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5. Original review text: Imperial stout with coconut, coffee, chocolate and vanilla from Marz, a brewery in Chicago, which I believe is the city with the highest number of craft breweries in North America; can from Bier Bazaar - and cheers to my colleague Lode's description of the label below, I could not describe it any better. Medium thick, quickly opening, deep yellowish-beige, fine-bubbled head initially retaining as a creamy ring and some veils in the middle but disappearing afterwards, over a black beer with deep burgundy red edges of no more than a few millimetres. Intriguing bouquet of chocolate sauce, fudge, bourbon, indeed coconut flakes, latté macchiato, cold Irish coffee, 'drop' and liquorice, vanilla already retreated to the background a bit but still very noticeable, hazelnut paste, roasted chicory, molasses, hints of shower gel, wodka, heavily sauced black pipe tobacco but not dominantly so. Dense, sweet onset, candied dates, rum-soaked raisins, very light sourish undertone offering a bit of balance against the overall sweetness, refinedly carbonated but still with minerally effects gently piercing through a very full, oily, smooth body; 'deep' layers of toffeeish, black-chocolatey and sweet-cashew-nutty malts ensue, filling the mouth cavity with a big, bold bittersweetness, though sweetness clearly prevails, accentuated by the actual added chocolate (adding to the chocolate sauce experience) and the vanilla, which does pop up retronasally. The coconut, something I love as long as it does not cross my path every single day and remains 'pure' and natural, is certainly there, but less strongly so than expected; instead the booze takes over in the end, very bourbon-like and very 'American' in a way, while the coffee gradually overshadows the coconut (also retronasally, in a refined aromatic way). Some coffeeish roasted bitterness supports this coffee aroma, but the chocolate never goes away and the whole ends like a liquid 'chocomousse' flavoured with coffee (and bourbon). The booze in itself could have been a bit more subtle for me (becoming rather wry in the very end) and the sweetness should not be this heavy either, but it cannot be denied that a beer like this embodies American style imperial stout anno 2021, a style imitated all through the Western world today. I cling to the idea that a bit less booziness and (much) less sweetness would make even a pastry stout like this better, but I guess this is what today's craft beer crowds want, and I have to admit that in its genre, this is very well made, with extra points for its alluring, expressive, flawlessly desserty aroma.

Tried on 06 Mar 2021 at 00:27


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

On tap at Man in the Moon. Hazy yellow with a medium white head. Malt, some citrus, hints of lime and some brett Drinkable but a bit odd.

Tried from Draft on 15 Feb 2021 at 08:35


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

355ml can that looks like a Miller High Life one, but with no logo. Pours a clean light straw yellow colour with heavy sparkling carbonation. The head is big because of this, but fizzes away rapidly enough to stay a foamy off-white head above the brew and soapy lacing spots. The hops seem pretty decent in the nose adding some grassiness and citrus notes, over the malty sweet base. Starts off fairly hoppy in the taste with the citruses, but calms down quickly thinning the mouthfeel. The finish is dry, so the hops take over the whole time pretty much. No sweet malt expected, just hints of apples. Gets hazy with time. A good alternative to the High Life to chug that won't give you headaches.

Tried from Can on 08 Feb 2021 at 23:16