Haymarket Brewery to Open

Great news on the Chicago craft beer front: Haymarket Pub & Brewery is getting ready to open in the next week or so depending on inspections. Even though it is 9,000 square feet, I'm sure it is going to be quite crowded, as we have seen with Revolution Brewing in Logan Square. I'm not sure if I'll be able to get there before the new year, but I'm sure I will within the next month. There will be about 15 beers brewed on site from Pete Crowley, formerly of Rock Bottom brewery.

From Haymarket's Facebook page, it looks like there will be a theater also included (something called drinking and writing). The bar and space looks great, and there are numerous taps behind the bar. They say that they will have about 75 craft beers featured. It'll be a few weeks before you can get any in-house brewed stuff. The space boasts a 100-year-old building, mosaic tiled floors, space for 300 hundred, and house-made sausage.

I'm thinking that this is a place that is going to make its mark on the craft beer map not only in Chicago, but also in the Midwest and soon the nation. It can only add to the diversity that Chicago is enjoying in its craft beer scene.