This makes the third Pipeworks beer I’ve reviewed in six months of writing this column—excessive from certain points of view, I admit, but restrained when you consider the alarming number of releases ...

Pipeworks Brewing, which has built a fervent following since its 2012 debut despite miniscule output, is planning to build a new brewery on the city’s west side that will more than triple its ...

I admit, it’s a bit soon to be reviewing another beer from Pipeworks Brewing—their Abduction Imperial Stout occupied this space just six weeks ago. But at FOBAB I chatted briefly with Pipeworks’ ...

This week I’ll be reviewing a beer from a local giant, Pipeworks, as well as a collaboration beer from two up-and-coming breweries. I’ll begin with the new-comers, Arcade/Maplewood, and their Odyssey ...

Pipeworks Brewing Co. is one of those breweries that most of us craft beer geeks already know about, and have for several years. Coincidentally, it’s probably familiar to a large number of folks who ...

Pipeworks Brewing debuted this week to the drinker’s equivalent of a standing ovation. Its first release, a double India pale ale called Ninja vs. Unicorn, hit streets Tuesday and sold out in days (a ...

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With all of the craft beers there are to choose from these days, drinkers have to be selective with their palates — and their wallets. It’s easy to spend a paycheck nabbing up all the latest releases.

Ashok Selvam is the former James Beard Award-winning regional editor for Eater’s Midwest region, in charge of coverage in Chicago, Detroit, and the Twin Cities. He’s a native Chicagoan and had been ...

—Pipeworks, one of Chicago’s most acclaimed craft breweries, is getting ready to unveil a bottle shop with draft lines for growler fills inside its brewery at 3912 W. McLean Ave. on Dec. 29, according ...

Patricks Sparks, 25, works out on the bouldering wall at the Pipeworks climbing and fitness gym last year in Sacramento. A small brewery called Touchstone Brewing Co. would make use of two old metal ...

When a brewery is small—I mean truly small—a ramshackle operation only a few years removed from making single batch beers on a wing and a prayer, then consistency is rarely a common feature of the ...