Half Acre Beer Company
Microbrewery
in
Chicago,
Illinois,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 2 Venues
Established in 2007
Contact
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.
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.
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. Pours with a large tan head and a deep brown body. Aroma of coffee, chocolate, spicy and earthy hops. Taste is chocolate, coffee, hops, caramel and a bit dusty. Dry finish. Lively bubbles.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Apr 2010
at 14:00
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. Pours with a tan head and a slightly hazed brown body. Aroma is chocolate, nutty, watery and lightly fruit. Taste is nutty, ash, water, melon and tobacco. Fizzy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Mar 2010
at 07:54
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Pours a dark reddish/brown almost black color with a small off-white head. Has a sweetish malty grainy bready chocolate aroma. Slightly roasted malty bready chocolate flavor with some hints of caramel. Has a roasted malty bready caramel finish with hints of chocolate in the aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Mar 2010
at 04:51
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. Pours with a hazy golden body and a large white head. Aroma is hoppy (makes me happy), tangerine, grassy, a bit of windex. Taste is also very hoppy, tangerine, pine and grassy. Light bubbles, excellent pale!
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Mar 2010
at 09:56
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft @ Clark Street Ale House, Chicago, IL. Pours a dark amber color with a small off-white head. Has a roasted malty hoppy aroma with some hints of caramel. Slightly roasted malty hoppy caramel flavor. Has a roasted malty hoppy finish with some bitterness in the aftertaste.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Mar 2010
at 08:12
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottled @MC
Deep ruby color, small beige head. Toffeish, caramelly aroma. Caramelly, some rye-bread, citrusy hops, late bitterness. Some kind of brown ale?
Deep ruby color, small beige head. Toffeish, caramelly aroma. Caramelly, some rye-bread, citrusy hops, late bitterness. Some kind of brown ale?
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2009
at 15:33
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
A deep dark stout with a thick frothy moka head. A very herbaceous and pungeant chocolate and hops mixed aroma, light wild weeds. In mouth, a nice herbal bitter chocolate, with a good dollop of hops, cold coffee, intense bitterness. Rich and complex. Bomber shared with probstk and Michael, Oct. 7 2009. Bought at Binny’s South Loop, May 18 2009.
Tried
on 18 Oct 2009
at 08:53
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled@Monks Café. Wallingatan, Stockholm. Rubyish amber colour, mediumsized beige head. Aroma is caramel malts, fruityness as well as some wooden and mildly syrpy notes. Flavour is wood, some berries, mild sourness as well as some grassy bitterness kicking in as well.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Sep 2009
at 12:33
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Draft at Goose Island. I had thought this was one of their beers at the time. Orange-brown color. All out bitter grapefruit aroma. All out bitter grapefruit hop flavor. Hoppy, sweet and medium bodied. Quite an excellent Pale Ale.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Sep 2009
at 00:52
3.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 2
Overall 3.5
Bottled (brewed at Sand Creek Brewing, WI) at Monk’s Café Wallingatan, Stockholm. Mahogany colour, rich head. Cardboard aroma. Sweet fruity and well rounded. Mildly syrupy with primitive crystal malt covered in too thin layers of floral hops to hide the severe shortcomings. Light resiny bitterness. Pointless wishy-washy pseudo-micro showcasing only cardbaord and resin.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Aug 2009
at 14:57