We’ll start this week from a brewery that opened up just a few minutes from my house - Riverlands.
Riverlands Brewing Co. opened their taproom in St. Charles, Illinois on March 17th of this year. And, in that short time, they have proved themselves time and time again as a tasty brewery, no matter what the style. While they produce a lot of hazy IPAs, stouts, and sours, they also make a wide variety of beers from ESBs to kölschs to hefes.
Riverlands recently began canning and distributing locally, so they don’t have a huge distribution yet (available only at the brewery and in select suburbs of Chicago).