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Off Color Brewing

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That other brewery posting cat pictures is ripping us off. You can’t drink fancy beer here, but you can drink fancy beer at our taproom Mousetrap.

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Off Color Brewing @offcolorbrewing.bsky.social · Aug 25

Mark Your Calendars!!

We’re doing our annual Offtoberfest Keep the Stein celebration a little differently this year. Mostly that means we’re moving it to an all day Sunday event at Mousetrap to accommodate more revelers than ever. And we’re adding boots!

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Off Color Brewing @offcolorbrewing.bsky.social · 6d

New “Beer for” coming soon…

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Off Color Brewing @offcolorbrewing.bsky.social · 7d

The final result is a beer that tastes great and is twice as filling!

Available on draft and 4pks of 16oz cans at Mousetrap on Thursday. Distro to follow.

Off Color Brewing @offcolorbrewing.bsky.social · 7d

We added as much fermentable sugar as our equipment and yeast can tolerate and then conditioned the beer on 50% more crushed vanilla beans and 50% more cocoa nibs than we’ve ever used before. A moderate dose of lactose sugar provides additional sweetness.

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Off Color Brewing @offcolorbrewing.bsky.social · 7d

While OG DinoS’mores focuses on Scandinavian brewing techniques which place a greater emphasis on variety of roasted malts and drier body to create bitterness, Double Stuffed DinoS’mores captured the American brewing spirit of cramming way too much into the same sized package.

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Off Color Brewing @offcolorbrewing.bsky.social · 7d

Like a perfectly toasted marshmallow, the flavor teeters between honey and roasted but avoids any burnt notes. The heavy alcohol only lurks well after the brew is quaffed but will leave you feeling as warm as leaving your shoes too close to the campfire.

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Off Color Brewing @offcolorbrewing.bsky.social · 7d

We got a second release coming Thursday at Mousetrap!!

Double Stuffed Dino S’mores is a bigger, bolder variant of our classic Dino S’mores Imperial S’more stout. Bold sweet confectionery chocolate aromatics give way to a rich, creamy mouthfeel.

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Off Color Brewing @offcolorbrewing.bsky.social · 7d

Bustling and full of life and lust like the hometown throng leaving a victorious Chicago Fire match. A rare occurrence filled with pride, zeal, and hope.

Available on draft and 375ml bottles to-go Thursday at Mousetrap.

Off Color Brewing @offcolorbrewing.bsky.social · 7d

None the less, two years later Orange Ghost emerged.

Lively acidity & a fruit salad potpourri of kiwi, candied lime, green strawberry, and blossom honey surge forth over a china bone white foam. Palate is a crowded affair of peach flesh, honeydew melon, cherries, & white pepper.

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Off Color Brewing @offcolorbrewing.bsky.social · 7d

The soil is an amalgam of “wind deposited ancient or sedimentary alluvials and decomposed basalt over a lime-silica hard pan” which the grower makes sound of great importance but we are but simple brewers and that goes entirely over my head.

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Off Color Brewing @offcolorbrewing.bsky.social · 7d

Orange Ghost follows this methodology using our collaborative wild fermented wit beer “Ghost Lemons” made with Allagash in 2023. Five hectoliters of the beer was racked into a mature Italian wine puncheon and laid to rest on top a bed of crushed Roussanne white grapes.

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Off Color Brewing @offcolorbrewing.bsky.social · 7d

Unlike conventional modern white wines, they are typified by allowing a period of skin contact after white grapes are crushed in a process more akin to red wine production. This skin contact extracts additional tannins, phenols, and of course color compounds.

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Off Color Brewing @offcolorbrewing.bsky.social · 7d

Boo! We got a ghost themed beer!! This October apparition drops Thursday at Mousetrap.

Orange wine is a lesser known but increasingly popular subset of natural and minimal intervention wines going back likely thousands of years to the Eastern European country of Georgia.

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👻 Eastern European hard candy 👻 @bvrlytweetmaker.bsky.social · 10d

If it actually DOES happen today I'm driving up to the @offcolorbrewing.bsky.social Mouse Trap and getting LOADED

Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 10d

Art contribution by @jalaffler.bsky.social of Off Color Brewing

The blank back of a beer mat with a little sharpie drawing of a kitty cat on it and the words ‘maybe it will happen today’

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Off Color Brewing @offcolorbrewing.bsky.social · 11d

NEW MERCH ALERT!

This forest green hockey style hoodie features the Off Color Athletic Department logo on the front and Pond Hockey Mice imagery on the back. This one is as soft as it is comfy as it is stylish. Now available online & at the taproom.

www.offcolorbrewing.com/merch/hockey...

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Silas Johnson @profsilas.bsky.social · 12d

I'm a little behind on October drawing, so I combined two prompts from different lists, and ended up with something about to go terribly wrong at @offcolorbrewing.bsky.social.

Pencil sketch of mice brewing beer in the style of Off Color Brewing label art. There is scaffolding set up so they can reach various parts of the fermentation vessel. One at the top is about to drop an onion into the beer, and another is running up the stairs to stop them.

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Off Color Brewing @offcolorbrewing.bsky.social · 18d

Flavor wise expect a complex blend of watermelon rind and candy fruitiness wafting from the slightly pink-hued ale. Mild sweetness with saline mouthfeel play against the watermelon overtone. The dry and bright finish will leave you racing for more.

Available Friday at noon.

Off Color Brewing @offcolorbrewing.bsky.social · 18d

Just in time for next weekend’s #chicagomarathon, Beerathon releases tomorrow when Mousetrap opens at noon. This fancy light beer with watermelon and salt clocks in at an appropriately sessionable 2.62%, comes in 6pks of 16oz cans, and pairs perfectly with a post-run cooldown.

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shitehaircut.bsky.social @shitehaircut.bsky.social · 19d

They had 3 left at Bucktown as at the time of this post

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Off Color Brewing @offcolorbrewing.bsky.social · 22d

Beguilingly aromatic and seductively spirited - this is a lager for bourbon lovers. Don’t sleep on this limited release. Long in the making, it will be quick to disappear.

Available exclusively at Binny’s locations.

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Off Color Brewing @offcolorbrewing.bsky.social · 22d

Via Binny’s: Ever tasted a Beer for Burgers? Not like this you haven’t. We’re talking about the Royale with Cheese - helles bock, lagered for 10 months in Binny’s handpicked bourbon barrels from Wild Turkey and Four Roses!

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Off Color Brewing @offcolorbrewing.bsky.social · 22d

This one should make fans of the OG Beer for Burgers happy.

We’ve teamed with Binny’s Beverage Depot to age lager in bourbon barrels once again and ten months later, we’re proud to introduce Royale with Cheese.

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Off Color Brewing @offcolorbrewing.bsky.social · 24d

Make sure to snag some of this delightful beer while it’s still available. Limited Distro to follow.

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Off Color Brewing @offcolorbrewing.bsky.social · 24d

After a limited early release last weekend, Wet Hopped Beer for Pizza is back on draft and available to-go at the taproom. This seasonal riff on Crispy Beer for Pizza packs at extra punch of hoppiness from the Chinook wet hops from our friends at Hop Head Farms.

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Off Color Brewing @offcolorbrewing.bsky.social · 28d

New Da Capybaras flexfit hats available online and at the taproom! www.offcolorbrewing.com/merch/dacapy...

Da Capybaras Fitted Hat — Off Color Brewing

Flex fit fitted hat featuring Off Color Brewing Da Capybaras logo embroidered on the front.

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Off Color Brewing @offcolorbrewing.bsky.social · 28d

A small number of Offtoberfest sweater vests are left online and at the taproom (if you want to guarantee would order online to reserve for pickup rather than just rolling through).

www.offcolorbrewing.com/merch/offtob...

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