For the fourth year in a row, and the 5th time in 6 years, we are Rate Beer’s Best Brewery in the World.

Best Brewers In The World 2012

We also make a good American Pale ale aparently

American Amber/ Pale
is made up of the following styles: American Pale Ale | Amber Ale |

Thanks to everyone who rates our beers so highly.  Head over to ratebeer.com to check out more results.

Thank you to everyone who attended our one-night only, all-carnivore beer dinner at Whole Foods on Thursday, January 19, 2012.  Over $1500 was raised for the Greater Chicago Food Depository from this event, helping to feed families in need all over Cook County.  For more information about the Greater Chicago Food Depository, please visit their website here.

This past Saturday we participated in the 14th Annual Chicago Beer Society’s Brewpub Shootout.

Come out and enjoy the best beers and best foods from Chicago area brewpubs and microbreweries as CBS presents the Chicagoland Brewpub & Microbrewery Shootout for the 14th consecutive year. Sample a bunch of beers and each brewery’s food item and then vote for your favorites (beer, food item, and beer-food combination). Winners will be announced at the end of the event. Support your favorite brewery or brewpub – or discover a new favorite. Either way, you get to taste the very best beer and food that Chicago has to offer.

We brought a house-cured lamb bacon served with a mole sauce and paired it with Moloko Milk Stout aged for a year and a half in a Woodford Reserve Barrel.  We won 3rd place for favorite beer, 2nd place for favorite food, and 3rd place for favorite pairing.

We are filling 30 Chardonnay barrels today with a special Belgian style golden strong ale we made. It’s going to age for a year before we pull it back out, but based on how good the base beer is tasting right now, it’s going to be really awesome.

http://www.3floyds.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/FFF_StateoftheBrewery2012.pdf

More photos from the improvements around the brewery.

If you’ve been to the pub lately, you may have noticed that pizzas are off the menu temporarily. We have recently begun a large and important construction project that involves the Pub and the Brewery. The Pub’s kitchen is woefully undersized and is being expanded to better meet the needs of the kitchen staff and the pub patrons. The Brewery is having new offices, a lab, and new bathrooms added. More details will be covered in the Annual State of the Brewery letter in a few weeks, but we will be adding photos to the blog to show the progression of the construction and work that’s being completed.

11.24 Closed Turkeyfest

12.24 Close early Xmas eve 5PM
12.25 Closed

12.31 NYE Close early 5PM
1.1 Closed

Enjoy your holidays.

Remember when we were able to make the beers that we wanted to make and it was so successful that we could hire the melvins to play at our brewery? That was awesome. Thank you to everyone for supporting us over the years.