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.
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.
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Can. A- Rice, grains, cream, mild spice. A- Gold color, hazy liquid, off white head. T- Rice, cream, faintest spice. P- Light body, average texture, average carbonation, bland finish. O- Nice attempt but a very weak and subtle flavor. Really needs cranked up and a lot more vanilla and cinnamon.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Mar 2024
at 17:08
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can.Black colour with medium beige head.Aroma of bourbon and roasted caramel nice warming and smooth with note of dark drid fruit and wood.
Tried
from Can
on 20 Mar 2024
at 10:58
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Poured up on tap at tipsy where it exhibits an opaque murky deep brown amber colored body that supports no real head at all. The aroma offers up kettle caramelization tempered by malts and a boozy sense of the Heaven Hills barrel treatment. The taste delivers similar character with smooth sweet malts enhanced by a near candy like kettle caramelization reduced sugars sensation and thin sweet dark fruity esters. To midway the booziness surges forward with Heaven Hills spirit, boozy bite and a slightly off putting red wine note. This faint tartness might be something else as it's timid enough to evade any sort of additional flavor confirmation. Fun sipper.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Mar 2024
at 02:13
6.4/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft. An unclear golden beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma has notes of citrus fruit, peaches, hops, and malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of citrus fruits, peaches, hops, and malt, leading to a bitter finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Mar 2024
at 13:24
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
09/01/19 Can from Astoria Bier & Cheese. Mojito glass. Thick, dark yellow to orange, an almost fresh cider color. Fleeting spot of yellowed head. Smells of light lime, baked pie crust & a hit of zest. Taste is a yeasty, malty mass that is only vaguely lime-ish, & little else noticable. Actually threw an ice cube in to thin it out enough to enjoy somewhat, but that barely helped.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Mar 2024
at 01:36
6.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draft. A cloudy golden beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma has notes of citrus fruit, hops, spices, and malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of citrus fruit, hops, spices, and malt, leading to a bitter finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Mar 2024
at 15:38
8.4/10
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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
7.4/10
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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
5.8/10
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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
7/10
Tried
on 12 Feb 2024
at 19:05