Legions of Craft Beer Fest

05/11/2026

Two more stops today in Chicago: Corridor and Old Irving.

05/10/2026

Happy Mother’s Day 🌸🍻
Dry Hop Brewery, Chicago

04/05/2026

Buy this hero a beer!

After paying €7.80 for a pint, Matt Cortland had a suspicion he was being overcharged for his beer. So he created an AI agent with a Northern Irish accent that autonomously called more than 3,000 pubs across Ireland to ask what the price of a pint of Guinness was.

He then used the data to create a website called “Guinndex,” a live, crowdsourced index of Guinness prices across Ireland. One pub owner reportedly lowered prices after seeing their listing on the Guinndex. Cortland says that he wants to apply the same tech and methodology to every other consumer product to keep prices in check.

04/05/2026

Two of our Festival Committee members, Matt and Meg B., have been road trippin'.

They drove through the cornfields, albeit empty right now, to get to Jefferson Beer Supply in Jefferson City, South Dakota. They passed through 3 states in 2 days.

Here's a flight at Marto Brewing in Sioux City, Iowa.

04/03/2026

Have you ever been to Omaha Nebraska? We have. Here ate Site-1 Brewing , we are enjoying a flight on this cold and rainy day.

03/28/2026

Oh, this is delicious! Jungle Boogie by Marz Community Brewing

02/13/2026

At the Bar 771 of Gurnee American Legion Post 771 , our list of 2025 Craft Beer Festival sponsors is gratefully displayed.

Village of Gurnee

D Wells Automotive Service
Inspirion Wealth Advisors
J&J Gaming
McCullough Equipment Group
Speedpro Lake County

Sambrano Funeral & Cremation, Inc.
SST Forming Roll, Inc.

Galvez Insurance Agency
Gurnee Community Bank
Jesse Oaks Food & Drink
MCL - Lake County Detachment 801 (Marine Corps League)
McClure's Garage inc.
STVU Heating and Cooling

02/07/2026

Here at Scorched Earth Brewing Company and enjoying their classic Bleuprint, and also trying their new Legion of Boom Blueberry Lime Gose Ale (the lighter color). Also gonna take home some amazing Afterburn Dry Irish Stout.

Owner Greg Doyen used to live in California and said that the red poppy you see on the Afterburn can graphic is a nod to the first flowers that would grow from the ashes of California wildfires.

The poppy is a dear symbol to veterans. The poppy is the symbol of Remembrance Day (Veterans Day) because it was the first flower to grow in the devastated, lime-enriched soil of WWI battlefields in Flanders, Belgium.

We always appreciate the great quality brews Scorched Earth offers, and their continued place at our Legions of Craft Beer Fest .

02/04/2026

Two of our committee members made a quick trip to Miami and checking out Cuba’s oldest brewery, Cerveceria La Tropical.

Established in 1888 in Cuba, opening in Miami in 2021.

02/04/2026

Two of our Legions of Craft Beer Fest committee members made a quick trip to Miami, and are checking out Cuba’s oldest brewery, Cerveceria La Tropical. Established in 1888 in Cuba, opened in Miami in 2021.