Microbreweries I've enjoyed (some more than others)

In no particular order. The list will be updated when i rank them all.

Updated 8/1/06. This is as best as I can do in limited time to rank them. The rankings are based on beer quality. This is all my own opinion but its pretty accurate because I know everything about beer so I can be considered an expert. A few of these places brew awesome beers but aren't the best place to go and sit and drink a beer at for various reasons, on the contrary, other places are wonderful places to go and have a beer at it's just too bad they brew shitty beer. For example, the Water Street Brewery is a very cool place with old beer collectibles all over the walls but the beer tastes like a smoothy, worst I've ever had. Keep this in mind if you plan on visiting an establishment. I'll work on ranking establishments and beer for all of them in a score system of some kind. I'll be updating this soon.
Updated 8/27/06: I've decided against a scoring system and I think I'm going to write one blog for every few (or so) breweries. That way I can give a reasonably detailed description of each. This way (should anyone actually read the blog and actually have a desire to go to one of the breweries) one will have some idea of what to expect. Last updated: 09/20/09

Town Hall Brewery, (Minneapolis, MN)
Bell's Brewery, (Kalamazoo, MI)
Emmett's tavern, (West Dundee,IL)
Great Lakes Brewing Co., (Cleveland, OH)
Great Dane, (Madison, WI)
Half Acre Beer Co. (Chicago, IL)
Milwaukee Ale House, (Milwaukee, WI)
Goose Island, (Chicago, IL)
Mickey Finns, (Libertyville, IL)
Two Brothers Tap Room, (St. Charles, IL)
Front Street Brewery, (Wilmington, NC)
Lunar (Villa Park, IL)
The Wild Onion, (Barrington, IL)
Janesport Brewery, (Janesport, MI)
Kraftbrau, (C) (Kalamazoo, MI)
Weeping Radish Brewery, (C) (Manteo, NC)
Lakefront Brewery, (Milwaukee, WI)
J.W. Plateks, (Richmond, IL)
Potosi Brewing Co, (Potosi, WI)
Prairie Rock Brewing Co, (Elgin/Schaumburg, IL)
Green Man, (Ashville, NC)
Piece, (Chicago, IL)
Peninsule bay Brewing (Kalamazoo, MI)
Lucky Monks, (Schaumburg, IL)
Hereford and Hops, (Escanaba, U.P. MI)
Flatlanders, (Lincolnshire, IL)
Walter Paytons Roundhouse (Aurora, IL)
M.T. Barrels, (C) (West Dundee, IL)
Governors Public House, (C) (Carpentersville, IL)
Sprecher Brewery, (Milwaukee, WI)
Hops, (C) (Minneapolis, MN)
Maummee Bay Brewing, (Toledo, OH)
Miller (Milwaukee, Wi)
The courthouse Pub, (Manitowoc, WI)
Grand Cayman Brewery, (can't remember the name)
The Ram, (Schaumburg, IL)
Brass, (C) (Schaumburg, IL)
Brockway Chophouse, (C) (Palatine, IL)
Shipwrecks, (Door County, WI)
Milrose Brewery, (Schaumburg, IL)
Waterstreet Brewery, (Milwaukee, WI)
Stockholm's (Geneva, IL)

(C) indicates brewery has closed down

Classic Portrait

Enjoy this photo taken of me at marks sisters wedding. I'm considering ordering a quantity of wallet size photos.

mark and the futon

Here's mark on the futon.

The hair.

Compare this photo to the other webcam photo i posted. The title of the post is "Here's what I look like". It was posted in March and taken in febuary, this photo was taken yesterday (4/11/06).

marks sisters wedding

Man did i get wasted. let me give the short version of the evening. I get ready at my girlfriends house, kate and kev pick me up. we drive to naperville, on the way we start to think we'll be late but then find out once we got there that we were a good half hour early. The church was built in the mid-1800's so it was creaky, that was cool. Then the wedding gets going and it was great. then we burn rubber over to emmetts brewery in downers grove where i drink three or four beers, i pick up the tab and we head for the reception. We arive on time and catch up with mark. Then we do the receiving line, with the formalities out of the way we hit the bar, i get a gin and tonic. We mingle and drink, by dinner i'm wasted, kevin gets wasted later but not after dinner was over. We proceed to hoot and hollar throughout dinner and clink our glasses incesently forcing the bride and groom to kiss every couple minutes. Then dinner ends and we bide our time before we hit the dance floor, where once we did hit the dance floor we definitly brought the energy to the masses. quickly everyone followed our lead and joined in the celebration. Once kevin and myself were good and destroyed on jack and coke's my sister/kevins wife made us leave and dropped me off at my girlfriends where i drank water and fell asleep. (picture will be posted later)

tuxedo

He's a pretty good photo of me in a tux. Feel free to download it and share it amongst your friends. Also any feedback on style or my general appearance is appretiated.

march 30, 06

Well here's me and slim on the futon again. Cold Chillin' Slims playing tetris to fight off a laughing attack, and i'm jammin tunes, Rileys asleep in the hall. time now is 12:36 a.m.

I feel like i need to interduce myself to this blog and build a relationship before we can make history. To get the ball rolling i put up that last photo of myself.

Here's what i look like.

3/27/06 Here's me, taken from my webcam about a month ago. Aren't I cute?

11:12pm 3/27/06

"How to get away with murder" will remain a clever title as my brother feels i've gone phsycho.

3/26/06

Blogs are the dumbest shit on earth and i will be deleting this blog shortly. As an added downer it seems to have trouble loading a picture. so i'll try one last time and if it doesnt' work, BOOM, tailights, this will be over with.

1st entry

Here I am.