Goose Island Brewery Clyborn Review

Clyborn is the micro-brewery. It used to have a relationship with the Fulton street brewery which is the main Goose Island brewery, but now, they are separate entities from what I understand. So let's jump right into it.

You can reserve a spot on the tour or you can reserve a table. We reserved a spot in the tour. It cost $10 dollars. That $10 will get you 5 different types of beer to taste and a Goose Island glass. We fricken forgot our glasses there though. :banghead:

The tour itself is extremely short. The tour guide was funny and charismatic. He actually did marketing and events for the company so he a little more invested in the tour than your average tour guide. Like 15 minutes. We were taken into the brewing room and the tour guide gave a quick explanation. Pretty generic and he knew that half of the audience didn't give a crap about water to malt ratios, etc so it was pretty fast.

The one thing I found interesting was them talking about the barrel aging process. I'm not going to try to repeat. Sorry.

Then we moved to the tasting room. Each person was given 5 beers to taste. But we were blessed with 4 no shows at our table. The tour guide told us we could have the beer of the no shows. And me being with all chicks, I got the vast lion share of it.I got drunk. The tasting ranged from all types of flavors. I don't remember specifically because I was drinking 20 extra samplers.

Also, I finally won my longstanding argument about the difference between IPAs and APAs.

They did tend to hurry people out of the tasting area for the next tour. We were in the tasting part for 30 minutes but that didn't feel long enough.

Afterwards, we got a seat and had bar food. I also got a drink I've never had before. It was a mix of whiskey, beer, and juice. It tasted like lemonade. The food was good.

5/5 Experience