From Red Eye Chicago:
Currently, Big Shoulders doesn't have its own brewery. Instead, the beer is contract-brewed, meaning Big Shoulders pays a brewing facility to use its equipment to produce his recipes. The first batch of Hopapalooza IPA, the only Big Shoulders beer currently on draught in the city, was made at Itasca's Church Street Brewing. In the future, the beer will be produced at a small brewing plant in Zion that specializes in contract-brewing.
"My plan is to take the year to gauge the growth and gauge the response so that I can see what I want to be able to grow into, then use the second year to kind of build out and transition into brewing my own beer," Syslog said.
If it seems risky to hand over production of his beer to someone else, Syslog isn't worried.
"I’ve heard a lot of horror stories from places that contract-brew, but the thing about this place is that it’s their goal to contract-brew for smaller places," he said. "They’re saying ‘We want you there for the first couple times to see how we do it.' They do want to build a relationship and for me to be very involved."
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