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New Arrivals

• Off Color Coffee Dino S'mores 2020

  Russian Imperial Stout · 9.5% · Chicago, IL

  Dino S’mores with Sump Coffee.

  8oz Draft $9

  16oz 4 Pack Cans $20

• Off Color Holiday Fatigue

  Imperial Stout · 9.5% · Chicago, IL

  Brewed with orange, raisins, pink peppercorns, and cloves, Holiday Fatigue pours dark and thick, emitting hints of Christmas spice and extinguished yule logs. Look for dark roast with port-like counter notes, while orange and spice subtly emerge on the finish.

  8oz Draft $8

• Off Color Myshka

  Stout · 3.5% · Chicago, IL

  Session Stout, full of dark, rich specialty malts, with layers of flavor like you'd find in an RIS. Except it's only 3.5%. (Booyah!)

  8oz Draft $4

  16oz Draft $6

• Off Color Space Tiger

  Sour Ale · 7.8% · Chicago, IL

  Bretty, funky and striped for camouflage, Space Tiger is a larger cousin our our other lion based farmhouse ales.

  10oz Draft $8

On Tap

• Off Color Apex Predator

  Saison · 6.5% · Chicago, IL

  Sweet scent of juicy fruit wafting from a frothy, white mane, and a generous Crystal dry-hopping that completes the dry finish with a fruity bite.

  8oz Draft $4

  13oz Draft $6

• Off Color Beer for Tacos

  Gose · 4.5% · Chicago, IL

  A margarita-inspired gose with key lime, pink himalayan salt, kaffir lime leaf, and oranges.

  8oz Draft $4

  13oz Draft $6

• Off Color Coffee Dinosmores 2019

  Imperial Stout · 10.5% · Chicago, IL

  Coffee variation of our imperial Smores Stout, Dinosmores.

  8oz Draft $9

• Off Color DinoSmores

  Imperial Stout · 10.7% · Chicago, IL

  Imperial stout brewed with Graham flour, marshmallows, molasses and vanilla beans with cocoa nibs added.

  8oz Draft $8

• Off Color Market Rate

  American Wild Ale · 5.8% · Chicago, IL

  A wild ale brewed annually for Green City Market with both unripened green and ripened Mara de Bois strawberries from Seedling Farms that are left to sleep for a year in wine barrels. Green strawberries lend a unique acidity while the diminutively sized M

  9oz Draft $8

• Off Color Miscellanea Vol. 2

  American Wild Ale · 6.2% · Chicago, IL

  Apricot, bergamot, cotton candy, wisps of nebbiolo grapes, manderine orange, tepache. Dry acidic, Barnyard funk.

  8oz Draft $9

• Off Color Squoke

  American Wild Ale · 5.9% · Chicago, IL

  Our very first batches brewed here at Mousetrap, aged in the first fill of one of our 14 yr old Barolo foedres for multiple seasons to eke out every last bit of their essence... more

  8oz Draft $9

• Off Color Tooth and Claw

  Pilsner · 5.0% · Chicago, IL

  "After taking our yeast on a field trip to the Field Museum, they, like most young things, became awestruck by the dinosaurs. Inspired by Sue's merciless killing tools, they took off after the malt sugar in this beer like a T. rex after an herbivore... more

  8oz Draft $4

  16oz Draft $6

• Off Color Very Very Far

  Belgian Ale · 6.0% · Chicago, IL

  A twist on the spirit of Belgian mixed fermentation that utilizes a non-traditional wine yeast, Torulaspora delbrueckii. Torulaspora enhances fruitiness while a classic Belgian ale yeast imparts a Belgian spice character... more

  8oz Draft $4

  13oz Draft $6

• Off Color Wildings

  American Wild Ale · 6.6% · Chicago, IL

  An aromatic cloudburst of summer blueberries, concord grapes, and strawberry blossoms interlaced with supple oak and a delicate note of violets from the long rest in our Italian foedres that held Barolo wine for 15 years.

  8oz Draft $9

Featured

• Miller High Life

  Pale Lager · 4.6% · Milwaukee, WI

  Miller High Life continues to be faithfully brewed as a golden pilsner, utilizing light-stable galena hops from the Pacific Northwest and a select combination of malted barley.

  12oz Bottle $3

• Off Color Fox in the Snow

  Sour Ale · 8.4% · Chicago, IL

  Foedre aged kriek refermented with Balaton and Montmorency cherries.

  375ml Bottle $15

• Off Color Gator Time

  American Wild Ale · 6.0% · Chicago, IL

  Gator Time is a puncheon aged wild ale with cherries.

  750ml Bottle $30

• Off Color Market Rate

  American Wild Ale · 5.8% · Chicago, IL

  A wild ale brewed annually for Green City Market with both unripened green and ripened Mara de Bois strawberries from Seedling Farms that are left to sleep for a year in wine barrels. Green strawberries lend a unique acidity while the diminutively sized M

  750ml Bottle $30

• Off Color Miscellanea

  American Wild Ale · 6.2% · Chicago, IL

  A tiger hued American Wild Ale with bugs, house bretts, native yeasts and wild cultures from Jester King, Side Project, Central State, Allagash Brewing, and ourselves... more

  750ml Bottle $30

• Off Color Oncilla Taxi

  Saison · 5.4% · Chicago, IL

  A funky saison aged in a Sangiovese puncheon with Brettanomyces claussenii and a Carmen Miranda hat of tropical fruits including Finger limes, Yuzu, Pink lemons, Mandarin oranges, Mandarinquats, Limequats, Calamondins and Fukushu Kumquats. (John’s sister is convinced we made some of these up... more

  750ml Bottle $25

• Off Color ProCatstination

  American Wild Ale · 5.1% · Chicago, IL

  Originally made with Perennial and Side Project to support the Lions, Tigers, and Beers benefit at Northdown. Northdown is no more, but the spirit of the day remains and the big cats at Wild Cat Sanctuary still need our support... more

  750ml Bottle $35

To-Go

• Off Color Apex Predator

  Saison · 6.5% · Chicago, IL

  Sweet scent of juicy fruit wafting from a frothy, white mane, and a generous Crystal dry-hopping that completes the dry finish with a fruity bite.

  16oz 4 Pack Cans $10

• Off Color Bare Bear

  Sahti · 9.0% · Chicago, IL

  Chock full of rye and juniper and spicy yeast esters, our sahti might inspire you to build your own sauna to ride out this winter.

  16oz 4 Pack Cans $10

• Off Color DinoSmores

  Imperial Stout · 10.7% · Chicago, IL

  Imperial stout brewed with Graham flour, marshmallows, molasses and vanilla beans with cocoa nibs added.

  16oz 4 Pack Cans $18.99

• Off Color Good Listeners

  Saison · 7.0% · Chicago, IL

  Made with our good friends from Rowley Farmhouse, Good Listeners is a reimagining of a Biere de miel using cactus gunk instead of honey. (But we still added some desert blossom honey because we support the bees, yo)... more

  750ml Bottle $16

• Off Color Market Rate

  American Wild Ale · 5.8% · Chicago, IL

  A wild ale brewed annually for Green City Market with both unripened green and ripened Mara de Bois strawberries from Seedling Farms that are left to sleep for a year in wine barrels. Green strawberries lend a unique acidity while the diminutively sized M

  250ml 4 Pack Bottles $24

• Off Color Miscellanea Vol. 2

  American Wild Ale · 6.2% · Chicago, IL

  Apricot, bergamot, cotton candy, wisps of nebbiolo grapes, manderine orange, tepache. Dry acidic, Barnyard funk.

  250ml 4 Pack Bottles $16

• Off Color Myshka

  Stout · 3.5% · Chicago, IL

  Session Stout, full of dark, rich specialty malts, with layers of flavor like you'd find in an RIS. Except it's only 3.5%. (Booyah!)

  16oz 4 Pack Cans $10

• Off Color Predator Noir

  Saison · 6.2% · Chicago, IL

  A blend of Foedre aged wild ale and fresh saison refermented with blackberries and jasmine. A rush of blackberry seeds, peach nectar and tangerines finishes with lingering traces of soft oak, inky merlot and jasmine flowers.

  750ml Bottle $16

• Off Color Procastination 2019

  American Wild Ale · 5.1% · Chicago, IL

  A yearly collaborative effort with ourselves, Side Project, and Perennial to benefit The Wildcat Sanctuary - a large cat rescue in Minnesota that takes in misfit and abandoned lions and tigers and the like... more

  250ml 4 Pack Bottles $20

• Off Color Reine des Renards

  American Wild Ale · 8.3% · Chicago, IL

  Calvados foedre aged Flemish blonde fermented with raw apple cider and native yeasts.

  750ml Bottle $20

• Off Color Space Tiger

  Sour Ale · 7.8% · Chicago, IL

  Bretty, funky and striped for camouflage, Space Tiger is a larger cousin our our other lion based farmhouse ales.

  750ml Bottle $13

• Off Color Squoke

  American Wild Ale · 5.9% · Chicago, IL

  Our very first batches brewed here at Mousetrap, aged in the first fill of one of our 14 yr old Barolo foedres for multiple seasons to eke out every last bit of their essence... more

  750ml Bottle $20

• Off Color The Sun Also Rises

  American Wild Ale · 7.0% · Chicago, IL

  A Hemingway Daiquiri inspired wild ale brewed in collaboration with Jackie O’s Brewery and is a reinterpretation of our favorite beer of theirs, Ricky.

  750ml Bottle $16

• Off Color Tooth and Claw

  Pilsner · 5.0% · Chicago, IL

  "After taking our yeast on a field trip to the Field Museum, they, like most young things, became awestruck by the dinosaurs. Inspired by Sue's merciless killing tools, they took off after the malt sugar in this beer like a T. rex after an herbivore... more

  16oz 4 Pack Cans $10

• Off Color Very Very Far

  Belgian Ale · 6.0% · Chicago, IL

  A twist on the spirit of Belgian mixed fermentation that utilizes a non-traditional wine yeast, Torulaspora delbrueckii. Torulaspora enhances fruitiness while a classic Belgian ale yeast imparts a Belgian spice character... more

  16oz 4 Pack Cans $10

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