Half Acre Beer Company

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

Established in 2007

Contact
4257 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL, 60618, United States
Description
You can come get to know our beers and the people behind them at either of our two locations.

Our original brewery on Lincoln Avenue is home to our Brewery Shop, where you can sample or purchase to-go, and a Tap Room, where you can stay, get a bite to eat and get to know who we are and what we do. You can now also visit our new brewery, on Balmoral Avenue, where we have a beer garden in nice weather and a completely separate food program.

Both locations offer perennials Daisy Cutter, Bodem, Pony Pilsner and Tuna plus plenty of small batch beers released weekly.

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6.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 5 Texture 7 Overall 6
From Good Times Oakland, canned February 11th.

Pours nice clear pale gold with a finger of foam, retention and lacing are excellent.

The smell is hoppy, grassy, grapefruit, piney.

The taste is the above in pretty much that order, finish is weird. From hoppy to a grainy flavour that I don't like. Maybe it's just me?

Good enough mouthfeel, I would not drink this again unless another sampling removes the weird finish that I get.
Tried from Can on 22 Mar 2026 at 14:17

7.4/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 8 Texture 7 Overall 7
Really nice an easy. At Publican in O’Hare. Solid fruit on both aroma and flavor.
Tried on 22 Feb 2026 at 17:51

7/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
Pour is a hazy hazy blonde with a large white head. Aroma is a nice fresh squeezed orange juice. Flavor is more orange peel with some peach and lemon citrus. Not a lot of sweetness or bitterness on the back end. A fairly average but still nice IPA.
Tried from Can on 21 Feb 2026 at 22:08

6.9/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
Can, from Binny's Chicago IL. Pours clear dark yellow/amber with a small frothy beige head, faint floral aroma, adequate carbonation, medium bitter caramel malt taste with light piney bitterness and citrus peel flavor, smooth body, long bitterish finish. Nice and smooth.
Tried from Can from Binny’s Beverage Depot - South Loop on 16 Feb 2026 at 00:40

7/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 7.5 Texture 7 Overall 7.5
Can, from Beermiscuous, Chicago IL (Oct 2025). Pours extremely hazy lemon yellow with a large foamy whitish head, faint citrus aroma, adequate carbonation, medium bitter unripe mango-citrus peel taste, smooth thin body, long finish. A good NE DIPA.
Tried from Can at Beermiscuous on 15 Feb 2026 at 19:54

7/10
Hoppy like an IPA. Resin
Tried from Can on 15 Feb 2026 at 01:11

7/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
Draught @ the taproom, Chicago IL (Dec 2025). Hazy lemon yellow with a foamy light beige head, faint unripe mangi aroma, adequate carbonation, mildly bitter unripe mango-citrus peel taste, faint pinet flavor, thin body, long finish. Decent NEDIPA with well covered ABV.
Tried from Draft at Half Acre Beer Company & Taproom on 08 Feb 2026 at 01:54

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
Draught @ the taproom. Faintly cloudy lemon yellow with a small frothy off-white head, faint citrus peel aroma, adequate carbonation, medium bitter citrusy taste with very faint piney flavor, smooth body, long finish. Nicely smooth IPA.
Tried from Draft at Half Acre Beer Company & Taproom on 08 Feb 2026 at 01:45

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
Can, from The Beer Temple (Jan 2026).Pours hazy dark yellow with a foamy off-white head, lightly piney aroma, adequate carbonation, bitterish lightly piney grapefruit taste, thin body, long finish. On the bitter side.
Tried from Can on 06 Feb 2026 at 19:11

8.9/10 Appearance 9 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 9 Overall 8.5
Can shared round Dan and Megan’s. Thick slick pour. Sits ominous. Decent bitterness on top of rich chocolate and dark roast malt. Big barrel presence. Scary easy drinking just shy of being overly pastry.
Tried from Can on 06 Feb 2026 at 07:01