Belt’s Beer Garden: Brews in the ‘burbs

This week I kept it even closer to my home than normal. I found a few beers from suburban Chicagoland that I wanted to share with all of you.

Up first, from Niles, Illinois, a rare find...even for my neck of the woods.

Hubbard’s Cave is an off-branch of Une Année Brewery, which is located in Niles, Illinois. Une Année focuses on Belgian and French style beers while Hubbard’s Cave is all about fresh, small batch, brews (from what I’ve noticed anyways).

Hubbard’s Cave is an elusive brand, even in the Chicago area…they have only released nine total beers, all of which are small batches, and, when produced, they are gone almost immediately. So when I found their Fresh IIPA V2 (Fresh by 11.28.16) I…