Dovetail Brewery

Core 4

• Dovetail Hefeweizen

  German Hefeweizen · 4.8% · Chicago, IL

  Easy to drink with a lingering, pleasant aftertaste. A rich, yolky-orange wheat beer, featuring the aroma of clove and fruit in a perfect balance; refreshing with a hint of mandarin-orange-like acidity.

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• Dovetail Helles

  Helles Lager · 4.4% · Chicago, IL

  Our flagship Helles is the ultimate easy-to-drink beer. Refreshing with an aroma of grain and the pleasant floral and citrus of Saphir hops.

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• Dovetail Kölsch

  Kolsch · 4.6% · Chicago, IL

  A refreshing, mildly spicy, mildly fruity ale. A happy beer, easy to drink, makes you want to have glass after glass. (Contains wheat)

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• Dovetail Vienna

  Vienna Lager · 5.1% · Chicago, IL

  Mozart played full-volume in the brewhouse as the Dovetail Vienna Lager was born. Copper in color, with a warm, malty character, it is brewed with 100% Vienna malt and Styrian Golding hops.

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Year-Round

• Dovetail Lager

  Lager · 4.8% · Chicago, IL

  A golden, malty, rich, creamy complex lager with aroma of malt and fresh hops. Easy to drink with a lingering pleasant aftertaste and foam that stands like a cloud above the rim of the glass; lacing at every sip.

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• Dovetail Rauchbier

  Smoked Beer · 5.3% · Chicago, IL

  Our version of the Bamberg classic... more

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Seasonals

• Dovetail Dunkel

  Dunkel · 4.8% · Chicago, IL

  Inspired by a trip to a monastery brewery on the way to Bamberg; Chocolate, bread crust, and pretzel is lifted by spicy Hersbrucker and Saaz hops.

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• Dovetail Dunkelweizen

  Dunkelweizen · 5.1% · Chicago, IL

  A dark hefeweizen. This beer features rich chocolate and roast notes in addition to the clove and banana found in traditional hefeweizens.

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• Dovetail Festweizen

  Festbier · 5.6% · Chicago, IL

  We decided to put the Weizen (wheat) into the Wisen (what the Munich locals call the place where the Oktoberfest tents are pitched). This is a make-party-wheat for the festive season.

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• Dovetail Grodziskie

  Smoked Beer · 3.8% · Chicago, IL

  Pale in color, with a spirited effervescence, Grodziskie is the specialty beer of its namesake town in Poland. More carbonated than Hefe and lower in alcohol, this 100% smoked wheat beer features light, citrus-like overtones with a surprising glimmer of spice and smoke.

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• Dovetail Hopfenlager

  India Pale Lager (IPL) · 5.1% · Chicago, IL

  Seasonal hoppy lager with rotating selection of hops and grist bills.

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• Dovetail Pils

  Pilsner · 4.6% · Chicago, IL

  Say it with us: "PILS" -- not Pilsner. A lot of people have asked over the years, "Why don't you make a Pils?" Well, this not quite German-style, not quite Czech-style Pils is the result of 8 years in the making... more

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• Dovetail Smoked Helles

  Helles Lager · 4.4% · Chicago, IL

  A smoked version of our Helles, hopped with Tettnang; using the yeast from our Rauchdopplebock to add a subtly smoked flavor.

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• Dovetail Vignette

  Lambic - Gueuze · 6.5% · Chicago, IL

  A four year blend of specially selected spontaneously fermented barrels.

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Spontaneously-fermented beers

• Dovetail Fraise

  Lambic - Fruit · 6.2% · Chicago, IL

  Fraise is from a conversation we had with folks from Timmermans, the legendary 300-year-old lambic brewery, who came to visit Dovetail. They recommended using a “young” batch of our spon—a 6-month-old blend of 4 barrels from our Fall 2018 season—for fruiting with 200kg of strawberries.

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• Dovetail Framboise

  Lambic - Fruit · 5.8% · Chicago, IL

  A blend of four barrels of our traditionally-made, spontaneously-fermented, and aged for 10 months on Michigan raspberries.

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• Dovetail Kriek 2020

  Lambic - Fruit · 6.5% · Chicago, IL

  Specially selected spontaneously fermented barrels of various age, with Balaton cherries from the Leelanau Peninsula.

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Non-beer and more

• Guest Cider

  Rotating selection of canned or bottled ciders.

• Krombacher Pils Alkoholfrei

  Non-Alcoholic · 0.4% · North Rhine-Westphalia

  The non-alcoholic Pilsner that persuades beer connoisseurs through it’s extremely true beer taste. Brewed with natural spring water in a special process.

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• Lemon Seltzer (N/A)

  12 oz of Filbert's Lemon seltzer.

• Pop

  12 oz of Filbert's Lemon-lime, Ginger Beer, or Root Beer.

Snacks

• BYOF

  As always, you're welcome to BYO food to Dovetail, or ask about upcoming visits from food trucks!

• Classic bar snacks from Beard and Belly

  Enjoy a housemade kabanos sausage spicy pickled egg, or Housemade Chips, add on onion dip

• Kriek Brownie from Amy's Candy Bar

  Chocolate brownie made with Dovetail Kriek and cherries.

• Pretzel from Hannah's Breztzel

  Freshly-baked, locally-made, traditional, organic Swabian pretzel. (Contains wheat) ($6) Cheese dip ($3)

• Spent Grain Cookie from Barry Sweets

  Large, chewy chocolate-chip cookie made from spent grains from a Dovetail brew day.

• Underberg

  German Herbal Digestive

  $4

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