Half Acre Beer Company is a

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. The company was founded by Gabriel Magliaro in 2006, with its office located in Chicago. The recipes for the beers were developed in Chicago and the beer was initially brewed at Sand Creek Brewery in

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. Half Acre's first beer, Half Acre Lager, debuted in August 2007.Bayne, Martha (August 23, 2007)
"A Chicago Beer, Brewed Right Here in Wisconsin"
''Chicago Reader''. Retrieved April 26, 2014.

History

In March 2009, Half Acre Beer began production in its own brewery on Lincoln Avenue in the North Center neighborhood of Chicago. Building upon its growing popularity, a tap room adjacent to the brewhouse opened in 2012. A 2013, ''

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'' magazine annual poll named the Half Acre tap room the city's eighth best bar. Because of its continued success, a kitchen was added in January 2016, completing the transition to a full service brew pub. In 2015, the brewery expanded by opening a second, larger brewhouse and pub on Balmoral Avenue in the Bowmanville neighborhood of Chicago, approximately a mile and a half from the Lincoln Avenue facility. In 2021, they consolidated operations into the Balmoral Avenue location, closing the Lincoln Avenue facility. Since 2007, the company has sponsored the local bicycle club Half Acre Cycling. To minimize waste from brewing, the company challenged engineering students from

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to find the best ways to reduce or reuse byproducts.

Beer

Half Acre brews six year-round beers, three

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s, as well as monthly special releases and small batches for its taproom and beer garden. When asked about the citrus flavor of Half Acre Lager, Magliaro has said that the only thing in his beer is water,

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and "lots and lots" of German malt and

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. In October 2014, Half Acre Heyoka won a silver medal at the

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in the category of American-style

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. In January 2015, Heyoka was renamed Senita after members of the

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objected to the term "

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" being used for commercial purposes. In June 2015. the beer was renamed again, to Gone Away, after another brewery claimed that the name Senita infringed too closely on the name of one of its beers.

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External links

* {{Official website, http://www.halfacrebeer.com/ American beer brands Beer brewing companies based in Chicago Manufacturing companies based in Chicago American companies established in 2006

History

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