Hopewell Brewing Company

Microbrewery in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Hopewell Brewing Company

Established in 2016

Contact
2760 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL, 60647, United States
Description
We’re a small team led by founders Samantha Lee, Stephen Bossu and Jonathan Fritz. The team is comprised of folks from all sorts of backgrounds, including nonprofit advocacy work, large production brewing and organic food sales — all of which inform our approach to running a brewery that not only makes high-quality, accessible beer, but is welcoming to all and provides a rewarding work environment for our employees.

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

Pour is a cloudy gold with a large white head. Aroma is fresh baked white bread. Flavor is more white bread with a spicy herbal hop finish. This was a really nice pils.

Tried from Can on 14 Mar 2026 at 18:22


6.1
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Yellow body. White head. Light pleasant aroma. Nice lagery taste with a creamy bit. Smooth body and pleasant finish.

Tried from Can on 20 Nov 2025 at 17:54


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

Draught @ Beermiscuous, Chicago IL. Clear copper-brown with a large spongy beige head, caramel malt aroma, medium carbonation, medium bitter spicy caramel malt taste, toffee, thin body, long medium bitter finish. Smooth and mellow.

Tried from Draft at Beermiscuous on 18 Nov 2025 at 21:30


6.9
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Pour looks like clear iced tea with a large white head. Aroma is a little grain and caramel malt. Flavor is a bigger grain than the aroma let on. Fresh ground bready malt with just a touch of sweetness and no bitterness at all. I don't know what would make this a winter lager but the fresh crushed grain is tasty.

Tried from Can on 08 Nov 2025 at 23:27


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

Pour is a clear gold pale lager lookalike. Aroma is candied oranges. Flavor is more oranges without the sweetness and then follows a big bitterness. Nice showcase of this hop Uber fresh. She be tasty and bitter.

Tried from Can on 30 Oct 2025 at 23:16


5.6
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 6

When I popped the lid, this cute little can of buddy squirted and foamed all over the place. Luckily I had enough left to taste out of a small brandy sniffer, whew. Very light pale yellow, and the head of course, was white and about 4 inches thick. Most of the glass was white head and a tiny amount of pale lager in the bottom. Smell is a pleasant clean lager nose with a tad of cream corn sweetness, typical fresh pale lager olfactory. First taste is sortah mix of some helles and a touch of pils mild bitter bite. A little more personality than the common macro. Lots of cutting carbonation on the palate, I like that. Before I knew it, the can was gone! Not bad. Could drink about 8 of these endearing little pony cans, hehehehh.

Tried from Can from Vintage Estate Wine and Beer on 17 Oct 2025 at 17:36


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

Draught @ Kasey's Tavern, Chicago IL (Oct 2025). Cloudy lemon yellow with a foamy off-white head, citrus peel-mint aroma, adequate carbonation, medium bitter citrus peel taste with mint flavor, thin body, long finish. Nice flavors.

Tried from Draft at Kasey's Tavern on 07 Oct 2025 at 23:35


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

Pour is a cloudy brown with a large white head. Aroma is a bit of caramel malt with some toasted grain. Flavor is more of a sweet grain with a bit of caramel that hits at the end. Decent beer of a style I don't get to try very often.

Tried from Can on 21 Sep 2025 at 00:21


6.8
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

12oz can c/o Ryan. Clean, crisp. Perhaps some corn in there to give it that classic American lager feel. Much better though of course. Hyper sessionable. OK.

Tried on 19 Sep 2025 at 02:36


7

Keg at the brewpub. Pours clear amber, nose is caramel, bready, grassy, hay, taste is sweet toffee, bread, caramel, floral. 7/7/8/7/7

Tried on 11 Aug 2025 at 14:36