Half Acre Beer Company
Chicago, IL
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Half Acre Daisy Cutter
American Pale Ale · 5.2% ABV
Daisy Cutter Pale Ale is a West Coast Strong Pale Ale, focusing on the aromatic qualities of the hops.410.6 miles away at Wines Off Wynkoop · See all places
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Half Acre Fader Lager
Lager · 5.0% ABV
A clean, fresh, uncomplicated beer of integrity.410.6 miles away at Wines Off Wynkoop · See all places
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Half Acre Original Reaper
Milk Stout · 6.0% ABV
Based on a stout series from 2018, this rendition contains no adjuncts, no lactose ~ a straight forward, classic stout with notes of coffee and mild caramel candy.485.3 miles away at Friar Tuck Beverage - Peoria · See all places
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Half Acre Pony
Pilsner · 5.5% ABV
Pony is a crisp, clean pilsner you can saddle on up to the bar and order with a confident, rangy thunder.485.3 miles away at Friar Tuck Beverage - Peoria · See all places
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Half Acre Extra Tuna Pale Ale
American Pale Ale · 4.7% ABV
Extra Pale Ale. The Tuna is a day long companion, riding along a medium bodied frame before crashing into tropical fruits, a touch of floral, & pine.485.3 miles away at Friar Tuck Beverage - Peoria · See all places
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Half Acre Big Hugs
Imperial Stout · 9.5% ABV
We took an interesting approach to making it and collaborated with Dark Matter Coffee to do a very low volume coffee extraction that was added.485.3 miles away at Friar Tuck Beverage - Peoria · See all places
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Half Acre Big Hugs Imperial Coffee Stout 2019
Stout · 10.0% ABV
485.3 miles away at Friar Tuck Beverage - Peoria · See all places
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Half Acre Lead Feather
Schwarzbier · 6.5% ABV
A dark, German-style lager with balanced roasted, smooth malt flavors and mild bitterness.485.3 miles away at Friar Tuck Beverage - Peoria · See all places
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Half Acre Akari Shogun
Wheat Ale · 5.5% ABV
A ridable 5.5% abv will host some wheatey nuts & juicy Motueka hop bolts. The deliverer of this truth: Akari Shogun.485.3 miles away at Friar Tuck Beverage - Peoria · See all places
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Half Acre Big Hugs Imperial Stout with Vanilla 2016
Imperial Stout · 10.0% ABV
Big Hugs Imperial Coffee Stout with vanilla. Low in roast and deep with creamy silk, and rich, warm fudge.485.3 miles away at Friar Tuck Beverage - Peoria · See all places
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Half Acre Bodem
IPA · 6.7% ABV
Our newest bedrock IPA, Bodem represents how we’re feeling about go-to IPA in today’s spectrum of plants and brewing perspective. Idaho 7, Mosaic Cryo and Cashmere spread over a silk-rich grist.485.3 miles away at Friar Tuck Beverage - Peoria · See all places
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Half Acre Vallejo IPA
IPA · 6.7% ABV
This hop crasher sharply dives into the very deep waters of bitter beers. Nelson Sauvin and Simcoe round out the hop profile.485.3 miles away at Friar Tuck Beverage - Peoria · See all places
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Half Acre Double Daisy Cutter
Double IPA · 8.0% ABV
The Double Daisy Cutter is a monster version of the original Daisy Cutter Pale Ale. -
Half Acre Beer Hates Astronauts
IPA · 7.5% ABV
A callab brew w/ graphic novel genius Ryan Browne - stripped down to nothing but Citra hops & Vienna malt, this brew is likely to move you crooked. -
Half Acre GoneAway
IPA · 7.0% ABV
This India Pale Ale shoots straight to the bitter edge before falling into a mellow haze. Deep gold and ready to travel into the distance. -
Half Acre Navaja
Double IPA · 10.0% ABV
This go-round is a little more aggressive. Heavy on Citra, Mosaic, and Columbus hops and Golden Promise malt; Navaja is a shredder rotating on all cylinders. -
Half Acre/Three Floyds Anicca
IPA · 7.3% ABV
OK warriors, we’re co-hosting a beer that’s to be delivered from our brew deck to your ceremonial chalice... -
Half Acre Benthic
Imperial Stout · 12.3% ABV
Benthic is an imperial stout aged in bourbon barrels with toasted coconut and coffee. -
Half Acre Galactic Double Daisy Cutter
Double IPA · 8.0% ABV
Double Pale Ale. Brewed just once a year, this beer takes everything we love about Double Daisy Cutter and skin it with the tropical impact of Galaxy hops. -
beer hates astronauts
IPA · 7.0% ABV
Imagine a comic book. The kind with superheroes and punching and stuff. Now imagine that most of those superheroes are kind of total jerks. Add in a lot of profanity. No, more profanity than that... -
Half Acre Deep Space
Double IPA · 10.0% ABV
Classic west coast style double, balanced & hoppy w/ a clean finish. -
Half Acre Bourbon Barrel Aged Big Hugs
Imperial Stout · 12.0% ABV
Imperial Coffee Stout using Dark Matter Coffee aged in a Heaven Hill Bourbon barrel for 10 months. -
Half Acre Big Hugs With Mexican Vanilla Beans
10.0% ABV
Big Hugs conditioned with Mexican vanilla beans. This beer is a thug. Big and chock full of tender embrace. -
Half Acre / Three Floyds Shewolf
IPA · 7.5% ABV
Brewed in collaboration with Three Floyds Brewing, this raging hop knife is brewed with a minimalists approach to using raw materials. -
Half Acre Bourbon Barrel Aged Coffee Big Hugs 2017
Imperial Stout · 12.0% ABV
Imperial Stout with coffee aged in bourbon barrels. -
Rainbow Never Ends
Double IPA · 8.5% ABV
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Half Acre Space
IPA · 7.0% ABV
Space, an India Pale Ale that we brewed a version of before, but under the name Daly Double. -
Half Acre Chocolate Camaro
Sweet Stout · 6.0% ABV
A chocolate milk stout brewed with nibs and lactose. Chocolate Camaro rests at a bit over 6% abv and warms with chocolate and roast. -
Half Acre Beer Hates Astronauts IPA
IPA · 7.0% ABV
Imagine a comic book. The kind with superheroes and punching and stuff. Now imagine that most of those superheroes are kind of total jerks. Add in a lot of profanity. No, more profanity than that... -
Half Acre Shewolf
7.5% ABV
Brewed in collaboration with Three Floyds Brewing, this raging hop knife is brewed with a minimalists approach to using raw materials. -
Half Acre Sticky Fat
Black IPA · 6.0% ABV
Over 300 pounds of fresh whole cone Chinook hops from Hop Head Farms in Hickory Corners, Michigan went into this exquisite dark ale. -
Half Acre / Other Half Rainbow Never Ends
Double IPA · 8.5% ABV
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Half Acre Vanilla Big Hugs
Imperial Stout · 10.0% ABV
This beer is a thug treated with Mexican vanilla beans. -
Half Acre Tuna
American Pale Ale · 4.7% ABV
A limited release Extra Pale Ale. Last year it was known as Golden Tuna. -
Half Acre Dungeons
IPA · 7.0% ABV
Dungeons focuses on the heavy use of Mosaic, Waimea and Simcoe. All tangerine and strawberry with very little bitterness, it's a true shark biscuit's dream. -
Half Acre Big Hugs Imperial Stout 2012
Imperial Stout · 10.0% ABV
This beer is a thug. Big and chock full of tender embrace. A specialty brew. Grab it when you see it. 10% ABV. -
Half Acre Golden Tuna
American Pale Ale · 4.5% ABV
A 4.5% Mosaic plus Centennial dry-hopped Pale Ale. -
Half Acre Barrel Aged Big Hugs
Stout · 12.0% ABV
Big Hugs Imperial Coffee Stout aged in Heaven Hill Bourbon Barrels. Big Aromas of honey graham cracker and caramel fade into flavors of cherry, bourbon, and chocolate. -
Half Acre Gossamer
Golden Ale · 4.7% ABV
A Half Acre classic. White bread and hay beneath quenching cantaloupe and green strawberry. -
Half Acre/Maine Beer Great Plain Jane
American Pale Ale · 5.5% ABV
A straight up session pale ale. Collaboration with Maine Beer Co. -
Half Acre Freedom Of '78
IPA · 7.0% ABV
Brewed in collaboration with Short's Brewing, featuring Jonathan Cutler of Piece. This beer was made in honor of the band Ween... -
Half Acre Galactic Double Daisy Cutter DIPA
Double IPA · 8.5% ABV
We’ve brewed a variant of Double Daisy Cutter we’re calling Galactic Double Daisy Cutter. This version highlights Galaxy hops, a bruiser grown in Australia specifically to make pallets numb. -
Half Acre Salted Chocolate Espresso Big Hugs
Russian Imperial Stout · 10.0% ABV
An imperial stout brewed with Dark Matter Coffee. -
Half Acre Over Ale
Brown Ale · 6.2% ABV
This deep brown beer is brewed with six varieties of malted barley and balanced with three generous hop additions. -
Half Acre Daisy Capra
Double IPA · 7.5% ABV
A new arc in the cutter family. Sun hot berries and white grape, baked in tropics and pine. -
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Half Acre Quakerbridge
Barley Wine · 10.0% ABV
An incarnation of a Half Acre favorite, Marty Stouffer’s Wild America Barley Wine, this weighty beer is a choose-your-own-adventure experience... -
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Half Acre Big Hugs Imperial Stout with Coffee and Vanilla
Imperial Stout · 10.0% ABV
Blended hugs base with a powerful assortment of vanilla beans. The result is low in roast and deep with creamy silk, and rich, warm fudge. -
Half Acre Big Hugs Imperial Coffee Stout 2017
Imperial Stout · 12.0% ABV
This beer is a thug. Big and chock full of tender embrace. -
Half Acre Daisy Cutter Nitro
5.2% ABV
A west coast Pale Ale chock-full of dank, aromatic hops. This one’s a screamer, horde it. -
Half Acre Gin Barrel Aged Pony Pilsner
Pilsner · 6.0% ABV
Aged in Corsair Distillery Barrel Aged Gin barrel (they age a spiced rum in the oak barrel first, then age their standard gin in the used rum barrel to produce their barrel aged Gin... -
Half Acre Now & Then
IPA · 7.0% ABV
Now & Then India Pale Ale pulls back the bead curtain on a fully fogged, fruit cocktail resin blend only found in the cold case, past the bulk bins.... -
Half Acre Bourbon-Barrel Aged Baume
7.0% ABV
Big, but not huge, this American Chocolate Rye Stout fires off a lot of coffee and chocolate notes... -
Half Acre Benthic 2019
Imperial Stout · 14.0% ABV
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Half Acre Big Hugs 2018
Imperial Stout · 10.0% ABV
Imperial Coffee Stout. Easy, balanced drinking with notes of dark fruit, smooth roast, and cocoa. -
Half Acre Vanilla Benthic 2019
Imperial Stout · 13.9% ABV
The Benthic base beer conditioned on Madagascar vanilla beans and an additional helping of house-toasted coconut. German chocolate cake, rich vanilla and marshmallow fluff. -
Half Acre Chub Step
Porter · 6.0% ABV
Our first toss into the winter stew is Chub Step Porter. Like fur between your legs, this roasty, silk charmer is your ticket to seasonal embrace. -
Half Acre Ginger Twin
Amber Ale · 7.0% ABV
A nod to the hop cone, we amped up this beer with our favorites while backing it up with some malty heft. *Specialty Brew. Get it when you see it. -
Half Acre Plane Wave
IPA · 6.0% ABV
Plane Wave IPA was molded after two tap room beers, Juice Man and Wicca. Brewed with an English yeast strain, a full bodied, lifestyle nectar. - View all beers
About the brewery
October of 2008 was when we began our build-out, and by February of 2009, after countless hours of hard work, community approvals, zoning changes, moratorium lifts, permitting and inspections, we found ourselves with the exact scenario we had hoped to create: a production brewery & store, located smack-dab in the middle of one of Chicago’s great neighborhoods, where beer could be brewed, packaged, and taken into the world either by the truckload or by the growler fill.
Since then, we’ve come a long way and have had the chance to expand our skills and grow our brewing company. On August 10, 2011 we purchased our building, cementing our place in the mix of it all, and in 2015 we expanded into a second location in Bowmanville, another residential locale.
At Half Acre Beer Company, we brew beers we want to see made, enjoy ourselves as much as possible, and encourage the interesting experiences this ride has to offer.