Dovetail Brewery
Chicago, IL
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Dovetail Lager
Pale Lager · 4.8% ABV
Their Lager is unfiltered, golden, malty, rich, creamy, and complex, with aromas of malt & fresh hops. -
Dovetail Hefeweizen
German Hefeweizen · 4.8% ABV
This beer is easy to drink with a lingering, pleasant aftertaste. A rich, yolky-orange wheat beer, featuring the aroma of clove and fruit in perfect balance... -
Dovetail Kriek
Lambic - Fruit · 6.5% ABV
Spontaneously fermented in the Belgian lambic tradition but with Chicago microbes and 2300 pounds of fresh Balaton cherries from Michigan. -
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Dovetail Pilsner
Pilsner · 4.6% ABV
This pilsner is a showcase for Czech hops, brewed with 100% Pilsner malt and heaven's water. A Chicago recreated version of the soft water of Plzen. -
Dovetail Rauchbier
Smoked Beer · 5.3% ABV
This beer is dark with reddish tones and an off-white head with a rocky foam standing above the rim of the glass... -
Dovetail Helles
Helles Bock · 4.4% ABV
Brewed especially for baseball season, this Helles is the ultimate easy- to-drink beer. -
Dovetail Maibock
Maibock · 6.9% ABV
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Dovetail Vienna
Vienna Lager · 5.1% ABV
Copper in color, with a warm, malty character, it's made with 100% Vienna malt and Styrian Golding hops -
Dovetail Bohemian-Style Pilsner
Pilsner · 5.1% ABV
The Bohemian pilsener has a slightly sweet and evident malt character and a toasted, biscuit-like, bready malt character... -
Dovetail Bourbon Barrel Rauchbier
Smoked Beer · 9.0% ABV
A limited-release Bock-strength Rauchbier aged in bourbon barrels from Koval Distillery. -
Dovetail Czech Dark Lager
Lager · 5.3% ABV
Inspired by JP's afternoon in Prague drinking at U Fleku — a brewery that’s been making dark lager more than 500 years — Dovetail’s Czech Dark Lager is a malt showcase of chocolate, bread crust, ca... -
Dovetail Framboise
Lambic - Fruit · 6.5% ABV
A blend of four barrels of our traditionally-made, spontaneously-fermented beer from Fall 2016 and Spring 2017, and aged for 10 months on 225 kg of Michigan raspberries. -
Dovetail Holiday Bock
Bock · 7.6% ABV
This beer is brewed for merrymaking. It's 100% barley malt lager with reddish tones from the generous addition of caramel malt. -
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Dovetail Dunkelweizen
Dunkelweizen · 5.1% ABV
A dark hefeweizen for Fall and Winter. This beer features rich chocolate and roast notes in addition to clove and banana found in traditional hefewiezens. -
Dovetail Grodziskie Oak Smoked Wheat Ale
Grodziskie · 3.8% ABV
Cool and refreshing, this soft summer beer goes down nice and easy. Pale straw in color, with a spirited effervescence, Grodziskie is the specialty beer of its namesake town in Poland... -
Dovetail Hopfenlager
Dortmunder · 4.8% ABV
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Dovetail Pêche
Lambic - Fruit · 6.5% ABV
One barrel of our traditionally-made, spontaneously-fermented beer aged on peaches from a tree in Hagen's aunt and uncle's yard. A limited, draft-only release. -
Dovetail Rauchdoppelbock
Smoked Beer · 10.0% ABV
A strong version of our Rauchbier aged in whiskey barrels. Not for the faint of heart! -
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Dovetail Vienna-Style Lager
Lager · 5.2% ABV
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Dovetail X01
Flanders Red Ale · 5.5% ABV
X01, our first experimental release, is what we call a "Flanders Rauch." It begins life as our Franconian-style Rauchbier... -
Dovetail X02 Wild Table Beer
American Wild Ale · 6.0% ABV
Our 2nd limited-edition special release—a boundless beer that’s never been done before and defies style guidelines: part Dovetail Lager, part lambic-style spontaneous, born of wild Chicago microbes... -
2018 Dovetail Kriek
Lambic - Fruit · 6.5% ABV
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2019 Dovetail Kriek
Lambic - Fruit · 6.5% ABV
Every July, we spend a day destemming Michigan-grown Balton cherries from the year's harvest... -
Dovetail 12.24.16
Lambic - Faro · 6.5% ABV
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Dovetail 12.25.16
Lambic - Gueuze · 6.5% ABV
‘Twas the night before Christmas ... in 2016 and a very rare bit of warm weather swept Chicago—warm enough to spontaneously ferment a beer out of season... -
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Dovetail Barrel Aged Rauch Doppelbock (Koval Bourbon)
Doppelbock · 9.5% ABV
A Doppelbock brewed with smoked malts and aged in Koval Bourbon barrels. -
Dovetail Barrel Aged Rauch Doppelbock (Koval Rye)
Doppelbock · 9.5% ABV
Doppelbock brewed with smoked malts and aged in Koval barrels. -
Dovetail Dunkel
Dunkel · 5.1% ABV
Here is Dovetail’s version, inspired by the monks—it delivers a rich and chocolatey roastiness on those cooler days. -
Dovetail Flanders Rauch
Flanders Red Ale · 5.5% ABV
Franconian smoked lagers and Belgian sours— into a distinct style. Crazy and complex, smoke and tart with a hint of funk. -
Dovetail Grodziskie
Smoked Beer · 3.8% ABV
Light, citrus-like overtones with a surprising glimmer of spice and smoke. -
Dovetail Petit Gueuze
Lambic - Gueuze · 6.5% ABV
A one-and-two year blend of our spontaneous beers made in the Lambic tradition of the Senne Valley. -
Dovetail Pils
Pilsner · 5.2% ABV
Not a a Bohemian Pilsner, but one of many delicious interpretations of Pils outside of Bohemia. Dry-hopped with Lemon Drop. -
Dovetail Pomme
Lambic - Fruit · 6.5% ABV
A single barrel of our traditionally-made, spontaneously fermented beer aged for 9 months on apples plucked from 100-year-old trees on the orchard of Uncle John’s Cider. -
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Dovetail Rauch
Doppelbock · 6.3% ABV
Rye spice and smoke mix with smooth, chocolate maltiness for a little push to get us through these last cold days of the season. -
Dovetail Resilience IPA
IPA · 6.3% ABV
Spearheaded by the efforts of Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, more than 1,500 breweries across the US came together to brew one beer, an IPA, to support those affected by The Camp Fire, now on rec... -
Dovetail R&R
Shandy · 5.5% ABV
Our Rauchbier was feeling left out of the Radler fun, so we mixed it 70/30 with Filbert’s Draft Root Beer. -
Dovetail Russ'n
Shandy · 2.4% ABV
A refreshing 60/40 mix of our Hefeweizen and Chicago’s own Filbert’s Lemon/Lime. -
Dovetail Special Collaboration Blend
Sour Ale · 6.0% ABV
Hopleaf’s Michael Roper and Joe Huminiak and Kaiser Tiger’s Pat Berger got together with Hagen Dost at Dovetail recently to sample some coolship beers that have bee aging in wood casks at Dovetail... -
Dovetail Spelt Bruin
Specialty Grain · 6.2% ABV
A styleless wonder made with spelt and our Trappist yeast strain -- a unique, multi-layered ale that asks more questions with each sip than it answers. -
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Dovetail Ur Weiss
German Hefeweizen · 3.6% ABV
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Dovetail White
Witbier · 3.3% ABV
A classic interpretation of a Belgian Wheat beer fermented with a weizen yeast for a hazy, spicy and sessionable beer. -
Hopleaf & Paddy Long's Barrel Selection 2019
Lambic - Gueuze · 6.5% ABV
Pat Berger of Paddy Long's along with Michael Roper of The Hopleaf were invited to Dovetail Brewery to help select some choice barrels of spontaneously fermented, wood barrel aged beer... -
Petit Gueuze
Lambic - Gueuze · 6.5% ABV
A one-and-two year blend of our spontaneous beers made in the Lambic tradition of the Senne Valley. -
Woodford Reserve Rye Barrel-Aged Rauch Doppelbock
Smoked Beer · 6.3% ABV
Our Rauch Doppelbock aged in Woodford Reserve Rye barrels. Rye spice and smoke mix with smooth, chocolate maltiness for a little push to get us through these last cold days of the season.