Design Your Own Dragon’s Milk

Starting at 8pm. Meet New Holland’s brewers, who can help you design your own Dragon’s Milk variant. Rare barrels on tap. Swag. Fun.

Peirce Day at Hopleaf !

Sunday April 28 is Peirce Day at Hopleaf. We’ll again be donating 100% of  the day’s receipts after taxes to Helen C. Peirce School for International Studies, a great public elementary school in Edgewater, with which we have a long relationship. Peirce is located at 1423 W Bryn Mawr Ave.

Over the years we’ve funded  many art partnerships, assemblies and technology needs that improve the educational experience for each Peirce student. Come support Peirce by dining and drinking all day with us!

Peirce Day is the latest incarnation of our Kegs for Kids charitable program which began in 2010 with a beer fest at the Metropolis Coffee Roasting facility on North Clark St. In 2008 and 2009 we hosted brunch at Hopleaf to benefit Peirce School.

Pints for the Planet

Good beer and healthful lives require clean water. On Earth Day Weekend— April 19-22—100% of the sales of Sierra Nevada’s Hazy Little Thing—will go to the Environmental Law & Policy Center to help protect our beloved Midwest lakes and waterways.

Sierra Nevada brewing has long demonstrated their committment to environmental sustainability. More than 10,000 solar panels above the brewery and parking areas at the Chico brewery alone, generating roughly 90% of electricity used onsite. Sierra Nevada has craft brewing’s largest solar array with 2.5MW between their two breweries!

ZERO WASTE—Diverting 99.8% of total solid waste from landfill. ~~Anaerobic digesters treat brewing wastewater and generate biogas for boilers or microturbines. ~~ Mills River has 500,000+ gal cistern capacity to capture rainwater and use it for toilet flushing and irrigation. ~~ CO2 from fermentation is captured and recycled back into the breweries. Food waste and other organics are composted – in Chico, onsite in the only HotRot composter in the U.S.  Finished compost is used in onsite agriculture. ~~Used vegetable oil is converted into biodiesel onsite in Chico and used in delivery trucks and farm equipment.
ESTATE AGRICULTURE—Chico has 10 acres of hops, 100 acres of barley/rotational crops, & a 1.5 acre estate garden for the Taproom – all certified organic. Mills River has 13 acres of barley, 250 oyster and shiitake mushroom logs, and a 4 acre estate garden – all certified organic. Both breweries are Wildlife Cooperative Sanctuaries through the Audubon Society and Bee Friendly certified through the Pollinator Partnership. Chico is Salmon-Safe certified as well. Spent grain is sold locally for cattle and hog feed and the Taprooms purchase beef and pork directly from those farms.

We are proud to serve the superb beers of Sierra Nevada and support and partner with them on important issues!

Welcome Neighbors!

Frio Gelateria opens just two doors north of Hopleaf

SO FRESH! Lexical Gap

Just ONE DAY from being put in the keg, Pollyanna’s Lexical Gap will be tapped at Hopleaf . That’s FRESH, Baby!

Gouden Carolus SINGLE MALT RELEASE

FRIDAY APRIL 12—the Gouden Carolus Single Malt debuts in Chicago at Hopleaf! It’s distilled from GC Tripel, which we’ll be pouring, as well as the classic GC. We’ll be featuring, specially-priced: the “Belgian Handshake“— a neat pour with a Golden C. Classic; and the “New Fashioned“—with housemate cherry simple syrup and house orange bitters.

Death By Cheese

Death by Cheese
Presented upstairs at Hopleaf by Solemn Oath, War Pigs, and Cheese Sex Death!
With:
Hopleaf’s famous Stilton Mac and Cheese, because yes.
Prairie Breeze Plate with all the condiments and accoutrements.
Drizzle some extra crispy fries with Jasper Hill Harbison? Yes.
Raclette Station manned by Cheese Sex Death’s Erika!
What the hell, another cheese (a goat cheese this time). Why TF not?
And Hopleaf-s soon-to-be-famous Goat Cheese Cheesecake!

Solemn Oath White Van, Punk Rock for Rich Kids, and Questionable Couch.
And of Course, War Pigs Lazurite, Foggy Geezer, and Salmon Pants.

With Joe from Hopleaf slinging drinks, Shaun and Whitney on hand to tell you all about the beer, and Erika Kubick of Cheese Sex Death to tell you everything you ever wanted to know about passion for cheese.

$45 tickets available at https://deathbycheese.bpt.me

Half Acre Decades

Celebrating Half Acre’s Daisy Cutter on its 10th birthday. On tap on April 20:
Daisy Cutter
Double Daisy Cutter
Fully Saturated Galactic Double Daisy
Quad Cutter
Smoking Daisy

Pucker Up for Tax Day

In “honor” of tax day. For fans of libations on the sour side, especially the Belgian kind. On tap—more than 10 rare, unblended, and still, Lambic and Gueuze style beers. Puckery, sour delights. Here’s the lineup:
Del Ducato Chrysopolis
New Belgium La Folie Grand Reserve PX Nitro
Gueuze Boon Selection
Still Lambic Boon Ale
Verzet Oude Cherry
Lindeman’s Young Lambic
Two Towns La Mure
Oude Beersel Still Lambic
Oude Beersel Unblended Gueuze
Elgood’s Coolship
Prestige 2017
Lagunitas Brett Stout
Dovetail Barrel Select (our collaboration)
Plus some other local treats.

COFFEE STOUT SUNDAY BRUNCH

We’ve accumulated a collection of coffee stouts in our coolers. All very sought after and rare. We’re going to tap them all at the same time, at noon on Sunday, March 31st, the day before April Fools Day. We’ll have 2 special brunch items on the lunch menu, quiche and waffles.

Mornin’ Latte from Toppling Goliath
Coffee Dino S’mores from Off Color
Most Important Beverage from Solemn Oath
Coffee Fun Size from Pollyanna
Coffee Nephilim from Central State
KBS from Founders