Pipeworks Brewing Company

Microbrewery in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Pipeworks Dojo

Established in 2012

Contact
3912 W McLean Ave, Chicago, IL, 60647, United States
Description
Pipeworks Brewery Co. was established in Chicago in 2012 by friends with a shared dream of crafting quality and creative beers. Since putting the first cap on the first bottle, the brewery has garnered accolades for its distinctive beers and original artwork thanks to a growing and enthusiastic team.

Pipeworks self-distributes in Illinois, Milwaukee, and Madison but can be found in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Connecticut through Sarene Distribution, in Minnesota through Clear River, in Massachusetts through Nightshift Distributing, in Missouri through Craft Republic Distributing, and in Colorado through Elite Brands. We are also available for online beer purchase in some states through Tavour.

The Dojo, our Bottle Shop, is located within our production facility at 3912 W Mclean Ave in Chicago.

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

Very hazy deep copper and bronze coloured body with a pretty nice two to three centimetre tall off-white head that caps the 90 per cent opaque glowing straw coloured body. Aroma of oranges, mangoes, light hay and grass, some slight herbal notes, but seemingly a good blend of sugars, alcohol and pungency, at least in the nose. Medium to Full-bodied; Deep and assertive hop notes and alpha acid bitterness comes out first with some pretty noticeable resin and floral, grassy finishes without much sweetness, but definitely a lot of astringency and a lot of dryness here - clearly showing more of an older school characteristic. Aftertaste is deep, dry, grassy and quite hoppy - with a nice alpha acid bitterness throughout, some pungent resinous flavours and some pine and grapefruit at the end, without any real sugars on the end of this. Overall, a nice beer that shows much more of an old school, West Coastie IPA than anything new school (fruity, easy-drinking, non-bitter, etc) aside from the unfiltered look...of course. Great to sample and I'm a fan of this, given it seems like 'The Haze' has finally LOST...aside from this being, actually...um...hazy. I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can, purchased from Glen Ro Spirit Shoppe in Monroe, Connecticut on 25-November-2022 for US$4,49 packaged on 06-May-2021 and sampled at my house here in Washington on 22-January-2023.

Tried from Can on 03 Mar 2024 at 07:09


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Draft. Hazy golden beer with a cream head. Light citrus and light tart aroma. Sour and grapefruit flavor with light tropical fruit. Medium bodied. Sourness and grapefruit linger with light tropical fruit.

Tried from Draft on 29 Feb 2024 at 16:07


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

bottle. Sharp hizzing sound when i slightly lifted the capsule, ran to the kitchen sink and opened a bit more there, tons of beer foam came shooting out of the still capped beer, after a while I could open more and even more came out, but it stopped with about 33cl left in the 60cl bottle. Pretty crazy. I was a bit concerned the capsule would fly off and create an injury or the bottle explode bc of the pressure. unclear red-brown, white head with a few yeast particles. very nice very fruity jam-like red-berries aroma. flavor is red berries, a lot of funk, mouldy notes, fruit kernel bitterness, tastes like an old fashioned american fruit beer, with some fruit kernel bitterness and not much yeasty sourness.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Feb 2024 at 11:28



7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

2-9-24 Fattey W’ville

Tried on 10 Feb 2024 at 02:06


8.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Creamy lightbrown good mostly lasting head. Dark brown colour. Heavy malty and moderate hoppy aroma. Heavy bitter great flavor. long fantastic heavy bitter finish. Creamy palate. Nice.

Tried on 08 Feb 2024 at 12:45


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

A black beer, a head is medium and brown. Aroma has apple pie, cinnamon, roastiness. Taste has caramel, cinnamon, some roastiness and chili without burning. Full bodied. Strong cinnamon, but it's not spoil this.

Tried on 02 Feb 2024 at 14:02


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Can at home for some True Detective. Dark gold some clouds and moderate white head. Nose is pineapple and mango. Tastes of those two fruits plus, strawberries, floral, bubblegum, hint of pine. Medium bodied easy drinking

Tried from Can on 29 Jan 2024 at 05:32


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

Smell-malt, caramel, weak yeast maybe, faint alcohol tones. Foam-thin, malt, caramel, weka sweetness, maybe faint raisin, weak alcohol. The head is somewhat small, white in color, brown tint. Appearance- somewhat nice label with a horse. Seems black in color, with some active carbonation. From - tulip Taste - weak caramel, weak bitter tones, weak hops, weak sweetness, some yeast and some alcohol. Not a bad barely wine, alcohol tamed down, but expected a bit more maybe.

Tried on 27 Jan 2024 at 15:25


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Can, 8%. Hazy golden with small white head. Aroma is malt, fruit, hop, citrus, stone fruit and a little pine. Flavour is malt, fruit, hop, citrus, sweet, stone fruit, little pine and medium bitter.

Tried from Can on 26 Jan 2024 at 22:18