What’s On Tap For Guinness Beer’s Move To Chicago?

Chicago would be one of only a handful of Guinness brewery locations outside of Ireland, and only the second in the U.S.

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What’s On Tap For Guinness Beer’s Move To Chicago?

Chicago would be one of only a handful of Guinness brewery locations outside of Ireland, and only the second in the U.S.

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The legendary Irish beer brand Guinness announced this week that it will be putting down roots in Chicago by 2023, staking a claim in the Fulton Market neighborhood. So why does Guinness have its eye set on Chicago? And what’s on tap for when it does set up shop?

Reset checks in with a beer columnist for the details.

GUEST: Josh Noel, Chicago Tribune reporter, author of Barrel-Aged Stout and Selling Out: Goose Island, Anheuser-Busch and How Craft Beer Became Big Business