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Beermiscuous Highwood
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Lager Beer Cafe in Highwood, north of Chicago.
putting a report together for one of our brewery suppliers:

2025 YTD (Jan 1 thru Oct 25)
277 kegs, 260 unique (93.86%), 250 local chicagoland (90.25%)

2024 YTD
267 kegs, 264 unique (98.88%), 256 local (95.88%)

2023 YTD
243 kegs, 238 unique (97.94%), 229 local (94.24%)

*keg count includes casks
October 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Goldfinger Dunkel on side pull.
October 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Sunday, we're letting the Štamgast pour their own Lukr side pull to mark our secret 7th anniversary. mailchi.mp/beermiscuous...

We got this idea from Cohesion Brewing, and it's the third year running it.
Shiny Rice Foam!
mailchi.mp
October 17, 2025 at 10:13 PM
short videos on wooden beer casks

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October 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I like a lot about cask service, but one of my favorite things is seeing the marked history across these casks, some that have probably 40 years of service.

This was once used at Flossmoor Station.
October 11, 2025 at 10:10 PM
GABF 2025 - 8,315 beers judged. The top five most populous categories account for 13.7% of beers judged.

Hazy IPA, 301 entries (3.6%)
West Coast IPA, 300 (3.6%)
Dortmunder or German-Style Oktoberfest, 186 (2.2%)
German-Style Pilsener, 184 (2.2%)
Hoppy Lager, 171 (2.1%)
October 11, 2025 at 9:02 PM
We've preorded Sakiškių Baked Festbier and Sakiškių Lithuanian Pils via Lime Ventures, destined for our Lukr side pulls, along with a few others from Sakiškės in package. Hoping they continue to push a little more here! The Keptinis mashed and decocted Pils was great on side pull last year.
October 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
What is REALLY stopping me from pulling Guiness Draught through the beer engine?
October 8, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Nite N' Gale has an auction ending now (the rusty one door merchandiser cooler went for $31) and the image photos are atrociously blurry. Meanwhile the Atlas Brew Works auction has individual lots presented with a luscious white backdrop.
Used Lantech S300 Rotary Arm Stretch Wrapper with: The Lantech S300 Semi-Automatic Rotary Arm Str
Lot 682 at Atlas Brew Works: Surplus Brewery Equipment Including 20-40 BBL Fermentation Vessels, 20 BBL Brewhouse, & more from SIGMA Auction.
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October 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
pudding mit gabel
September 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Container Types in this distro portal:

Bag in a Box (10)
Beer Ball (2) (same number of oz as a sixtel!)
Bottle (947)
Can (1006)
Cask (6)
Firkin (21)
Keg (1839)
Mini Keg (1)
Reserved (9)
August 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Newsletter is out now! Pour Service features of German Pils on Japanese-style Beer service, Great Lakes Eliot Ness on Lukr side pull, and way too many words about beer.
An Extra Long Newsletter about Lager Beer.
mailchi.mp
August 9, 2025 at 4:51 PM
We're at Lakeview on Thu Aug 14 for a service special!
August 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Ice chilled beer lines and Matsuo-style beer service
July 27, 2025 at 12:52 AM
All this Sunday June 27, we're running ice chilled beer lines on a very special edition of Japanese style beer service. What does that mean?
July 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Beware. the Corn Sweat approaches.
July 12, 2025 at 2:38 AM
[Business Calendar for July]
This is Beermiscuous!
We will do our best to pour delicious beer for everyone, so please check out our business calendar for Japanese-style pour service.

・Sun July 27 we will feature a special pour festival with ice chilled beer lines.
July 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Beware. the Corn Sweat approaches.
July 12, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Check out this cool one faucet tower setup.

It reminds me of a couple different Japanese shops, pouring from the side is especially present on the Bier Reise '98 chilled servers (home of the Matsuo Pour Twice)
June 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Kick Push Prost is a Marzen style Octoberfest by Mikerphone. Available this week from AJ Maka Distro.
June 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Our newsletter! Sign up for more. We always spend a little too much time, but it's easy to get carried away talking about beer. There's never enough content, really.
Foreign Exchange tap feature!
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May 16, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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May 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I love how a lot of Zahm & Nagel stuff has all these gauges and pressure and valves but then the next step is just "shake down the whole apparatus" because it owes you not money, but data. 2:56 for the initial shakedown.
Zahm Series 7000 New Style Air Tester: Operating Instructions
YouTube video by Zahm & Nagel
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May 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Just give me some admin access to clean up your inventory classification system.

Lot more online ordering portals for distributors these days, and they are always a mess to browse.

Glunz, Lakeshore, and CBS have a lot of minor classification errors. Let me take care of most of it for you.
May 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM