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Jay Westbrook
@blackbeerbaron.bsky.social
Purveyor of Suds and Hooch | Money B. Green |The Patron Saint of Patience | A Whole Damn Black Beer Baron | Bartender Jay | Him, not THEM
For those who may have missed it, Igot active with the cat who gave me my start in this sordid game aka my OG Chef Cleetus Friedman aka Hollywood as Hell for his new YT series Drink It Or Dump It:
January 30, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Just gonna leave this here for the afternoon
January 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Forgot how satisfying drinking from an ice cold Chicago bathroom faucet in the middle of the night is
December 21, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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Nisei Lounge is the best. They add some tree and toy collection charity boxes and suchlike in December, but the ceiling lights and decor are up all year ‘round. ‘Tis always the season there. Bill Savage, Rogers Park. @blackbeerbaron.bsky.social @chicagobars.bsky.social
What Chicago bar or restaurant has the best holiday decorations up right now?

Be sure to tell us what you like about how they're decorated.
December 13, 2024 at 8:55 PM
Pressing play on Doechii finally….
December 6, 2024 at 8:32 PM
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It's basically a beer with honey in it. Sound familiar, @blackbeerbaron.bsky.social
Makes Rich Blood (?!?) Chicago 1915
December 4, 2024 at 6:32 PM
Sitting at the dentist’s office watching 4 different sports talking heads shows and realizing I don’t like any of these people and that’s why I don’t watch sports talking heads shows

Can’t wait to get in the dentist’s chair and turn to that one channel that just shows Cheaters on an endless loop
December 3, 2024 at 5:36 PM
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The buzz is finally over here 🐝🐝🐝
a cartoon bee with the website sendwishonline.com at the bottom of the image
ALT: a cartoon bee with the website sendwishonline.com at the bottom of the image
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November 27, 2024 at 12:39 AM
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The anniversary of Harold’s death in 1987. @blackbeerbaron.bsky.social
November 25, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Nothing like falling asleep while starting to curate my year end retrospective and realizing y'all gotta deal with me until I'm done with y'all
November 25, 2024 at 5:42 AM
Pardon me for not bringing #BringBackTheSweaterDress over here, but we here now
November 25, 2024 at 1:21 AM
And that why you don’t shush the opposing HOME crowd in the first quarter

Still 3 more quarters for you to get punched in the mouth about it
November 23, 2024 at 6:10 PM
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Good!
November 20, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Love being the guy that realizes he has too much dip on his chip and proceeds to put more on it.
November 20, 2024 at 12:03 PM
Dr. Oz AND Linda McMahon is crazy. I’ll just sit back and and wonder if Oz ever took a Stone Cold Stunner because Linda definitely did
November 19, 2024 at 11:02 PM
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Beer-loving English teacher Emily Swank & I will be hanging out on Instagram Live this Wednesday evening at 8 Eastern for HopLit, a snobbery-free discussion of books and beer. (1/2)
November 19, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Ketchup? Fridge? What do these words mean?
now that @niseilounge.bsky.social is here chicago bluesky has become more powerful than any of you can ever imagine. your tap water will become malort. all of the ketchup in your fridge has been replaced with mustard. the world will become chicagofied.
November 19, 2024 at 7:14 PM
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"[I]n one market the craft segment accounts for 41% of SKUs, but just 5% of gross profits. That’s unsustainable for retailers and large breweries...it’s just too complex and expensive for big breweries to compete in such a market unless it represents substantial volume."
My latest post was inspired by the news that ABI was shutting down its Elysian brewery in Seattle. With ABI and Molson Coors basically exiting the craft market, the marriage of convenience between big and small breweries is over. I discuss why that was always in the cards.
Big Beer is Done With Craft — Beervana
Small breweries inhabit an entirely different business reality, one this is largely incompatible with the manufacturing model of an ABI. The latest news tells the story: the divorce is final, and all ...
www.beervanablog.com
November 19, 2024 at 11:48 AM
Frederick really hollered SLAMMIN and proceeded to get surgical over a Tony! Toni! Tone! beat smmfh the audacity of this nigga
November 19, 2024 at 5:20 PM
What the hell you just call us?
Good morning, fellow skeeters. Today we are gonna be productive
November 19, 2024 at 5:15 PM
16 eyes, 2 and a possible brains….yet all of them are judging YOUUUU
November 18, 2024 at 1:05 AM
Up and about to bail the spot for a 11am B1G Ten Network game….if it wasn’t my Bucks, I’d claim cruel and unusual punishment
November 16, 2024 at 1:06 PM
86 this loser for the Phil Collins disrespect
November 16, 2024 at 5:04 AM
Look at Ced wearing a whole soufflé on his head
November 16, 2024 at 4:37 AM