Off Color Brewing

Microbrewery in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 2 Venues

Established in 2013

Contact
1460 N Kingsbury St, Chicago, IL, 60642, United States
Description
We make beer. Sometimes we do other things but not as well.

We've produced award winning, beers on the global stage. Now we just do it for ourselves applying our brewing knowledge, experience, and creativity to create a new breed of classically inspired American beer.

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Can at the brewery. Pours clear amber, nose is caramel, toffee, marmalade, taste is sweet, citrus, berries, caramel, bitter finish. 8/8/8/8/7

Tried from Can on 07 Aug 2025 at 14:05


7

Can at the brewery. Pours hazy golden, nose is lemon, tea, zest, taste is sweet zesty lemon, black tea. 7

Tried from Can on 07 Aug 2025 at 14:03


7

Keg at the brewery. Pours black, nose is chocolate, candi sugar, liquorice, roasted, taste is sweet, sugary, liquorice, chocolate. 8/8/7/7/7

Tried from Can on 07 Aug 2025 at 14:01


6.5
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Draught @ One Lake Brewing (Sept 2024). Clear greenish gold color with a frothy off-white head, very faint grain aroma, medium carbonation, medium bitter lightly yeasty malt taste, thin body, long finish. Not very flavorful, a bit thin.

Tried from Draft at One Lake Brewing on 31 Jul 2025 at 16:20


7

Magus, mõru, röst, karamelline, pähklid, linnaseline. Ok

Tried from Can on 29 Jul 2025 at 22:51


7.3
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Draught @ the taproom (Oct 2024). Inky black with a very small frothy tan head, mocha-molasses aroma, low carbonation, mildly sweet mocha-molasses taste, cocoa flavor, faint alcohol undertones, thin body, long finish with faint alcohol aftertaste. The alcohol escapes a bit.

Tried from Draft at Off Color Brewing Taproom - The Mousetrap on 11 Jul 2025 at 17:49


7.1
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Draught @ the taproom, Chicago IL (Oct 2024). Faintly cloudy pale yellow with a small frothy off-white head, yeasty aroma medium carbonation, initially sweet malty taste with Belgian yeast characteristics, alcohol undertones, thin body, long finish with some throat burn at the end. Decent tripel.

Tried from Draft at Off Color Brewing Taproom - The Mousetrap on 11 Jul 2025 at 17:24


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Can. Pours cloudy brownish dark yellow with a small creamy beige head, faint caramel aroma, low carbonation, bitter caramel malt taste with faint coffee taste, lightly sour, thin body, long finish with an alcohol kick at the end. Smooth and easy to drink despite the ABV.

Tried from Can at Broadway Dive (Formerly: Dive Bar - 101st) on 10 Jul 2025 at 20:05


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

Draught @ the taproom. Cloudy lemon yellow with a small frothy off-white head, citrus aroma, low carbonation, medium bitter citrusy taste with faint peppery flavor, thin body, long finish. Smooth brew.

Tried from Draft at Off Color Brewing Taproom - The Mousetrap on 06 Jul 2025 at 00:28


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

pours brown with a large beige to light brown head. looks a bit like a Vienna.
aroma is nutty, chestnuts, roasted malts (not like a stout, more like a vienna) faint slightly sweet note like somewhere betweeen sweet nuts and flowers. very faint smoked malty note. If i had blindtested this, i would've guessed vienna.

flavor is sweet nutty, bitter nutty, toasted malty - but not overly sweet, also tastes like a vienna, only it's quite flavorful.

Tried from Can from Kihoskh on 30 Jun 2025 at 13:51