Metropolitan Brewing was a brewery located in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 2008 by then-husband and wife team Doug and Tracy Hurst. It was originally located in a converted warehouse in a historically industrial area of the Ravenswood neighborhood of Chicago. In 2017, they moved to a larger facility with a taproom at 3057 N Rockwell Street in Chicago.
Metropolitan focused exclusively on brewing lagers in the traditional German style, the only craft brewery in Chicago to do so. Doug Hurst earned a brewing diploma at the Siebel Institute of Technology.
In December 2019, Metropolitan became embroiled in a long-running dispute with their landlord over rent and the square-footage of their building, saying the lease they agreed to was 24,000 square feet but their landlord instead listed it as 33,000 square feet in the contact. As a result, they ceased paying their full rent. In October 2023, the brewery filed for bankruptcy, noting slow sales and unsustainable debt. The brewery closed permanently on December 18th, 2023.
Beers + Metropolitan Brewing's Current Beers Name Style ABV % IBU Original gravity Offering Notes Dynamo Vienna Lager 5.8 29 13.8° Plato Year-Round Uses Vienna malt and Vanguard and Liberty hops Flywheel Munich Pils 5.2 45 13° Plato Year-Round Krankshaft Kölsch 5.0 28 12° Plato Year-Round Recipe includes wheat and Santiam hops Iron Works Alt 5.8 45 13° Plato Year-Round An update to the I-Beam recipe. Uses Mt. Hood and Vanguard hops. Generator Doppelbock 8.2 25 18° Plato Seasonal Winter Arc Welder Dunkel Rye 6.0 28 13.7° Plato Seasonal Spring Afterburner Märzen/Oktoberfest 6.1 25 14.2° Plato Seasonal Fall
+ Metropolitan Brewing's Archived Beers Name Style ABV % IBU Original gravity Notes I-Beam Alt 5.3 50 12.6° Plato
References
External links Metropolitan Brewing Official Site