• Hopleaf Bar

    Promoting Better Beers, Wines & Spirits in Chicago since 1992.
    Belgian-inspired Kitchen featuring our famous Mussels & Frites.

  • Past Events

    • The Mitten Series Variant Release & Clothing Drive

      Friday Dec 7

      First chance to try all 3 Mitten 2018 Variants—The Mitten,  Cherry Mitten, Maple Mitten!

      Special Menu featuring Virtue Cider Farm Pork

      AND Keep our community warm! Please bring mittens, hats or coats and Virtue Cider will donate them to Sarah’s Circle

       

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    • North Coast Brewing Tappings & More!

      Thursday Nov. 29

      We have developed many long term relationships with breweries in our nearly 27 year history. One of the longest is with The North Coast Brewing Company of Ft. Bragg, California. Thursday Nov 29 we’ll be celebrating their 30th anniversary with special tappings—including the last two kegs of Brother Thelonious—when it’s gone, it’s really gone! Click through for more details….

       

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    • Into The Wild Tapping

      Nov 14

      Allagash’s very first spontaneously fermented Coolship Red Ale is called Into The wild. WQe’re please to be tapping it 6pm Wednesday Nov 14 !

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    • Special Tapping—Toppling Goliath!

      October 18, 2018

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    • ZUNDERT —US Launch of the newest Trappist Beer

      Monday Oct. 1

      NOTE! EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. THE DATE NOW SHOWN IN TENTATIVE. Check back in to be sure. Be among the first to try the newest Authentic Trappist beer in the market! Zundert—the “slightly unruly” Trappist ale—will be $10/bottle. (And it will be Trappist Bottle Day—all other bottles $2 or $4 off depending on format.) This beer is brewed by the monks of the Zundert Trappist Monastery, located among the forests and pasture lands of the Netherlands.

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      • RECURRING EVENTS:
        Bottle Mondays—every Monday prices on bottled beers are discounted.
        Kegs For Kids Pour of the Week—sponsored kegs change as they run through, all proceeds go to Peirce Elementary School

        Recurring Reading, Storytelling, Performance Events:
        Tuesday Funk (1st Tuesday of Month)
        This One Woman (4th Monday of month)
        Do Not Submit/Open Mic (4th Wednesday of month)
        Check out their own websites for details and to confirm dates.

        YEARLY EVENTS:
        Super Stout Sunday—a collection of stouts, inc. Goose Island’s BBSs, presented on tap at noon on Super Bowl Sunday.
        Kegs for Kids/ Peirce Day—*all* proceeds all day to Helen C. Peirce Elementary School (last Sunday in April or thereabouts)