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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8.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Draught @ Mikkeller Bar, Copenhagen

Pours clear orange with a smooth head. Aroma of fresh wet fruity hops, grass, citrus and grapefruit. Taste is smooth, fruity and citric with loads of fresh wet hops, citrus and grapefruit. Finish is smooth, wet hoppy and fruity with loads of citrus, grapefruit and zesty notes. Really tasty APA.
Tried on 30 Apr 2014 at 13:17

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Draught @ Mikkeller Bar
Aroma is sweetish and hoppy with some pineapple juice and passionfruit. Also hints of minerals. Flavour has pineapple juice, some fruit sugar tones, hops and distant mineral tones. A bit leathery finish. Too sugary but not bad.
Tried on 30 Apr 2014 at 13:14

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Draught @ Mikkeller Bar, Copenhagen

Pours pitch black with a smooth white head. Aroma of roasty malts, coffee, hints of vanilla, cocoa and coffee. Taste is smooth, roasty and sweetish with some coffee and cocoa notes. Finish is smooth and sweetish with some cocoa. Okay porter.
Tried on 30 Apr 2014 at 13:12

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Draught @ Mikkeller Bar, Copenhagen

Pours dark orange with a smooth white head. Aroma of fresh hops, grass, citrus, fruits, crisp malts. Taste is smooth, fresh hoppy and grassy with some fruity notes. Finish is fruity hoppy and grassy with some gooseberries and resin. Quite fresh and tasty IPA.
Tried on 30 Apr 2014 at 13:06

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Draught @ Mikkeller Bar
Aroma has hayish notes, toffee and butter. Some roasted coffee also. Feels like a low-abw English stout. Flavour is dry and roasted with buttery tones and ash. An IS in English way.
Tried on 30 Apr 2014 at 13:05

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Tried on 30 Apr 2014 at 06:22

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Tried on 30 Apr 2014 at 05:22

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Draught at the brewery, 4/17/14
Chill-hazed deep golden/copper body is topped by plentiful white head showing strong retention.
Hugely hoppy nose is full of strong peachy-lemon fruitiness and a fair amount of acidity. Pine emerges quickly and alongside the grapefruit and heavy leaf-like astringency, it quickly becomes clear this is going to be very aggressive. Bready malts produce a sourdough-like note in conjunction with all of this hop resin, while there is a touch of alcohol warmth on the finish and a bit of fusel character.
Unbelievably acidic in the mouth. Hop resin, lemon concentrate, pine sap, etc....Very well-attenuated, too much so, as there’s not nearly enough malt to balance. It’s not even the extreme amount of hops used, rather just the poorly executed boiling schedule for them. Way too much bitterness and borderline sour/aspirin-like. Damn. Ok, you know how to boil a shit ton of hops and make an unbalanced beer. Good work.
Tried on 26 Apr 2014 at 16:57

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Draught at various bars around Chicago, including the brewery, 4/17/14
Very soft haziness to the light yellow body, with a moderate amount of white head.
Touches of honey-like maltiness dot the aroma while soft, but succulent floral aromatics and deliciously delicate tropical fruits slowly crescendo in to a juicy, green ending replete with just enough citrus to give it some zestiness, but allow the papaya and kiwi-like notes room to shine. No alcohol and no pine or resin, thankfully.
Flavor is equally delicate. I guess by delicate I just mean it’s not overhopped and is very well attenuated, drinkable and crisp. Almost lager-like in its cleanliness, and full of light pears, pineapples, papaya and just a hint of tangerine and oranges. Some pils malt-like sweetness adds just a touch of honey and provides ample body for the beer, while carbonation is on the lower side, adding to the softness of the mouthfeel. No alcohol, no flaws, absolutely no resin or pine. Delightful stuff.
Tried on 26 Apr 2014 at 16:48

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Enjoyed on tap at Half Acre Taproom in Chicago, IL. How is this the only beer to be called Bonestorm? Such a great name. Appearance is a muddy dark brown with a rich and frothy off white head. Aroma of roasted chocolate and grassy hops, smells great and fresh. Taste is top notch, finishes bitter and maintains light chocolate. Great dark ale.
Tried from Draft on 25 Apr 2014 at 16:28