Dovetail Brewery

Dovetail Lager

Pale Lager · 4.8% ABV

Their Lager is unfiltered, golden, malty, rich, creamy, and complex, with aromas of malt & fresh hops.

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.

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 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 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 Helles

Helles Bock · 4.4% ABV

Brewed especially for baseball season, this Helles is the ultimate easy- to-drink beer.

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.

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.

Dovetail Zoigl

4.0% ABV

Zoigl is a tradition of beer made in the Oberpfalz region of Bavaria...

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

Dovetail Kölsch

Kolsch · 4.2% ABV

A refreshing, mildly spicy, mildly fruity ale. A happy beer, easy to drink, makes you want to have glass after glass. A wonderful stand of foam above the rim of a traditional .2L Stange.

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!

Dovetail Rauchweizen

German Hefeweizen · 3.8% ABV

A smoked version of Hefeweizen

Dovetail Vienna-Style Lager

Lager · 5.2% ABV

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

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

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...

Dovetail Altbier

Altbier · 5.1% ABV

Our take on the Düsseldorf classic.

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 Elderflower

Lambic - Fruit · 6.5% ABV

A friend of ours brought us a bunch of elderflower from a forest reserve he manages; we added it to a 1-and-2 year blend of our spon beers. Elderflower is said to open up doors to fairy worlds.

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 Helles Lager

Helles Lager · 4.4% ABV

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.

Dovetail Radler

Shandy · 4.8% ABV

A 60/40 mix of Lager and Filbert’s Lemon-Lime.

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.