Half Acre Beer Company is a brewery in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The company was founded by Gabriel Magliaro in 2006, with its office located in Chicago. The recipes for the beers were developed in Chicago and the beer was initially brewed at Sand Creek Brewery in Black River Falls, Wisconsin. Half Acre's first beer, Half Acre Lager, debuted in August 2007.Bayne, Martha (August 23, 2007). "A Chicago Beer, Brewed Right Here in Wisconsin", Chicago Reader. Retrieved April 26, 2014.
History In March 2009, Half Acre Beer began production in its own brewery on Lincoln Avenue in the North Center neighborhood of Chicago.- - Building upon its growing popularity, a tap room adjacent to the brewhouse opened in 2012.-- A 2013, Chicago magazine annual poll named the Half Acre tap room the city's eighth best bar."Best Bars in Chicago: The Top 10 Bars in the City", Chicago magazine, January 11, 2013. Retrieved April 26, 2014. Because of its continued success, a kitchen was added in January 2016, completing the transition to a full service brew pub. In 2015, the brewery expanded by opening a second, larger brewhouse and pub on Balmoral Avenue in the Bowmanville neighborhood of Chicago, approximately a mile and a half from the Lincoln Avenue facility. In 2021, they consolidated operations into the Balmoral Avenue location, closing the Lincoln Avenue facility.
Since 2007, the company has sponsored the local bicycle club Half Acre Cycling.Half Acre Cycling official website. Retrieved April 26, 2014.
To minimize waste from brewing, the company challenged engineering students from Northwestern University to find the best ways to reduce or reuse byproducts.
Beer Half Acre brews six year-round beers, three seasonal beers, as well as monthly special releases and small batches for its taproom and beer garden.-
When asked about the citrus flavor of Half Acre Lager, Magliaro has said that the only thing in his beer is water, yeast and "lots and lots" of German malt and Saaz hops.
In October 2014, Half Acre Heyoka won a silver medal at the Great American Beer Festival in the category of American-style IPA. In January 2015, Heyoka was renamed Senita after members of the American Indian Movement objected to the term "heyoka" being used for commercial purposes. In June 2015. the beer was renamed again, to Gone Away, after another brewery claimed that the name Senita infringed too closely on the name of one of its beers.
+ Half Acre Beers Name Style ABV % IBU Notes Daisy Cutter West Coast pale ale 5.2
Available year-round Akari Shogun Wheat ale 5.5
Seasonal Lead Feather Black Ale 6.0 Seasonal Pony Pilsner Pilsner 5.8
Available year-round Gone Away India Pale Ale 7.0
Seasonal Alpenglow Winter dark ale 5.0
Seasonal Baumé Rye stout 7.0 60 Seasonal Beer Hates Astronauts India Pale AleSeasonal Big Hugs Imperial stout 10.0
Seasonal BodemIndia Pale Ale5.7Available year-round Callow Knife Pale ale 5.0
Seasonal Canyon of Heroes India Pale Ale 6.1
Seasonal Chocolate Camaro Stout 6.0
Seasonal Chub Step Porter 6.0
Seasonal Smoking GullHazy pale ale5.2Seasonal Crystal Norde Baltic porter 7.0
Seasonal Double Daisy Cutter Pale ale
Seasonal Ginger twin India-style red ale
Seasonal The Grotto Extra pale ale 4.5
Seasonal Half Acre Lager (Fader) Lager
Available year-round The Hammer, the Bullet, & the Vise English brown ale 5.0
Seasonal Lager Town Oktoberfest 6.0
Seasonal (fall) Mr. Ouroboros German pale ale 6.0
Seasonal Navaja Double India Pale Ale 9.5
Seasonal Over Ale Brown ale 6.0
Seasonal Quakerbridge Barley wine 10.0
Seasonal Space India Pale Ale 6.7
Seasonal Sticky Fat American dark ale 6.3
Seasonal Thunder & Son Brown ale 10.0
Seasonal TomeHazy Pale aleAvailable year-roundTendUnfiltered American Ale5.8Seasonal (winter) Vallejo India Pale Ale 6.7 Seasonal (spring)
See also List of breweries in Illinois
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