Moody Tongue Brewing Company

Microbrewery in Chicago, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Moody Tongue Brewing Company

Established in 2014

Contact
2515 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL, 60616, United States
Description
At Moody Tongue, our goal is to create thoughtful, exciting beers that blend familiar flavors with quality ingredients through our philosophy of culinary brewing: using a chef’s mindset to highlight flavors and aromatics in balanced beers.

Culinary brewing rests on three principles:
1. Sourcing the highest quality ingredients
2. Understanding how best to handle those ingredients to showcase flavors and aromatics
3. Knowing when during the brewing process to incorporate these ingredients.

Brewmaster Jared Rouben draws on his culinary training to forge this connection between the kitchen and our brewery, building recipes for our beers in the same manner a chef would for a dish. Our beers are created with simplicity and balance in mind and can be enjoyed both on their own or paired with food.

Beer is our food. We look forward to feeding your moody tongue.

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6.8/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 6.5 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle from Beer Republic. Brown malt and caramel aroma with notes of chocolate and vanilla. Not really picking up on the Mexican/Churro aspect. Medium sweet with a light bitterness, medium body. Decent Porter.
Tried from Bottle from Beer Republic on 14 Jun 2025 at 22:02

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
12oz bottle. Lychee aroma is big, but comes off to be like a super perfumy not real extract additive. A little more interesting than most fruited IPAs, but still artificial, undesirable, and unimpressive. Base is more old school brewpub APA, malts overpower the lychee.
Tried on 20 May 2025 at 02:52

7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 6
Draught in Las Vegas. Orange amber pour. Citrus and tropical fruit up front. Hops bite follows. Pretty good.
Tried on 20 May 2025 at 01:43

7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
0.355l bottle. Aroma of caramel, chocolate, roasted malt and nuts. Pours almost black color with thick creamy light brown head and sparkling
appearance. Taste starts mild to medium sweet roasted malty with chocolate and caramel notes, following is dried fruity, nutty and woody with vanilla note, mouthfeel is rather dry, while finish is average bitter. Medium body, creamy texture and average carbonation in palate. In the mood for churros…
Tried from Bottle from Beer Republic on 30 Apr 2025 at 16:01

6.9/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 6.5
750ml bottle. Funky, leathery Bretty tone. Saison yeast is still there too, Not unlike Orval at best, but certainly a little sloppier, not so refined. Hoppy, bretty. Drinkable, but more of a science experiment than a great beer.
Tried on 29 Apr 2025 at 21:37

6.3/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 6 Flavor 6.5 Texture 6 Overall 6
12oz bottle. Like most Moody Tongue beer, it comes off thin, lacking, borderline off. Ingredients seem right, it just doesn't come together well. Big rice tone works, but the finesse just isn't there.
Tried on 28 Apr 2025 at 01:54

6.8/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 6.5 Texture 7 Overall 6.5
Sounds sort of fancy, but really just another lackluster pastry beer. The flavors don't really merge that well, or remind me a churro. Drinkable, but not really an impressive creation.
Tried on 26 Apr 2025 at 04:39

6.8/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle from Beer Republic. Almost black with a small off-white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, roasted malt, caramel, light vanilla and light spicy. Flavor is quite sweet. Sweet finish. Soft. 070425
Tried from Bottle on 07 Apr 2025 at 20:55

8.1/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 10 Overall 7.5
Bottle at home. Pours copper with an off-white head. Nose is sweet malty, showing notes of bread, toffee, dried fruits, vanilla, and light booze. Taste is scotch upfront, booze and lightly spicy, vanilla like wood, then rather surprisingly it packs a fruity and floral punch with hints of honey and toffee. Closes with a fruity, jammy woody finish, has a medium to full body (I think the fruity character made it feel lighter than it actually was) and soft carbo. Interesting, layered and complex stuff.
Tried from Bottle on 17 Mar 2025 at 11:59

6/10
RB score 3.02
Tried from Bottle on 12 Mar 2025 at 19:44