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Wednesday, May 21, 2025Spend a Day Brewery Hopping Along Chicago's Malt Row
MidwestLiving / by Amy Bizzarri / May 12, 2025 Pour yourself a pint: We're going to start with a story. In 1841, one of Chicago’s original breweries, Lill and Diversy, introduced Lill’s Cream Ale, a beer so popular that by 1857, the brewery had grown into the largest west of the Atlantic Seaboard. By 1900, the Windy City was home to about 60 beer-makers. Today there are more than 160—and you’ll find some of the best concentrated in and around the near north-side neighborhood of Ravenswood. Read More
Thursday, February 20, 2025Koval Rolls Out New Line Of Limited-Run Luxury Craft Spirits
Block Club Chicago / by Alex V. Hernandez / February 12, 2025 RAVENSWOOD — Koval’s new luxury line features a bottle celebrating the ingredients used to craft the Ravenswood distillery’s award-winning spirits. Founded in 2008 by Sonat Birnecker Hart and Robert Birnecker, Koval became the first distillery in Chicago since Prohibition ended. The distiller’s new line, Thresh & Winnow, features limited-edition whiskeys and Japanese botanical-inspired gins. “We wanted to have a really high-end line,”
Friday, January 31, 2025Breaking Barriers: Dr. Sonat Birnecker Hart's Leadership and Legacy in Craft Distilling
This Women’s History Month, we honor the trailblazing achievements of Dr. Sonat Birnecker Hart, the visionary co-founder and president of KOVAL Distillery, one of the largest independent woman-owned craft distilleries in the United States. Through her leadership, KOVAL has become a global name in organic spirits, celebrated for its commitment to sustainability, innovation, and quality. As the driving force behind KOVAL’s new luxury line, Thresh & Winnow, Dr. Birnecker Hart has once again raised the bar
Tuesday, January 14, 2025The Story of Ravenswood
WTTW Chicago by "L" / by Daniel Hautzinger / January 2025 Chicago neighborhood names can be tricky; Ravenswood is a perfect example of that. For a long time, what many people today consider Lincoln Square was known only as Ravenswood. The Ravenswood elevated train, now the Brown Line, has stops in Ravenswood at Montrose and Damen but extends all the way to Albany Park. And Ravenswood Manor? Not part of Ravenswood – it falls into Lincoln Square and Albany Park. Ravenswood began as an exclusive commuter
Wednesday, September 18, 2024From the Makers of KOVAL, Comes Thresh & Winnow, a New Line of Ultra Premium and Limited Spirits
Chicago Food Magazine / September 17, 2024 Available late September, Thresh & Winnow will debut with a limited edition 10-Year-Old Rye Whiskey, and a Single Malt Whiskey. The whiskies will be followed in October by two gins, Foret and Citrine, inspired by Japan’s celebrated flavors of Shiso and Yuzu respectively. Thresh & Winnow Organic 10-Year-Old 100% Rye Whiskey is a whiskey crafted from organic rye that has aged in the Midwest. Its nose is a mix of freshly cracked pepper and sun dried apricot,
