Happy Thursday, Grayslake! If you are on the lookout for a premier New Beer Thursday Grayslake menu selection, your timing is flawless. Tonight, Beer Bazaar is unleashing a targeted drop featuring pristine Chicago lagers, deeply roasty porters, ready-to-serve craft cocktails, and the long-awaited return of a craft industry icon.
Sean is holding down the bar all evening, ready to help you navigate our updated tap lines and bottle coolers. Whether you are stocking your home fridge for the weekend or swinging by for a cold pour after work, we are proud to serve as your community craft third space in the Village of Grayslake.
Explore This Week’s Fresh Arrivals & Restocks
Dovetail Brewery
- 10th Anniversary Lager (4.8%): Celebrating a decade of master-class continental brewing in Chicago. This pristine lager utilizes traditional double-decoction mashing methods, yielding a clean, bready malt character and structured noble hop crispness.
- Summer Hopfenlager (4.5%): A light, bright lager heavily dry-hopped with classic European hops for a floral, citrusy punch. This seasonal thirst-quencher is officially flowing now on tap!
Moor’s Brewing Company
- Apricot Altbier (4.3%): Crafted by one of Chicago’s prominent Black-owned breweries, this traditional Dusseldorf-style Altbier balances a crisp, nutty, and toasted amber malt backbone with a vibrant infusion of sweet, natural apricot fruit.
New Belgium Brewing
- Fat Tire CLASSIC RECIPE Amber Ale (5.2%): Craft purists rejoice! New Belgium has brought back the iconic, original formula for Fat Tire. Reversing the recent golden ale pivot, this version features the classic toasted biscuit malts, subtle fruitiness, and clean Willamette and Goldings herbal hop finish that originally put them on the map.
Spiteful Brewing
- God Damn Pigeon Porter (8.2%): A robust, unapologetically dark porter loaded with intense espresso bean roast, dark chocolate flakes, and complex dark fruit sweetness (Restocked!).
- Twang Guava Sour (4.5%): A tart, mouth-puckering sour ale conditioned on lush pink guava juice for a bright, tropical, and highly refreshing profile.
- Bleacher Bum Peach Blonde Ale (5%): The quintessential companion for warm weather and baseball season. A clean, crisp blonde ale infused with juicy, sweet peach character.
Thornton Distilling Co.
- Dead Drop Old Fashioned (37%): Handcrafted at Illinois’ oldest standing distillery building (built in 1857), this award-winning ready-to-serve cocktail blends premium rye whiskey with real cane sugar and custom aromatic bitters. It’s bar-quality execution straight out of the bottle (Restocked!).
Tip Top Proper Cocktails
- Naked & Famous (25%): A complex, canned craft powerhouse mixing smoky mezcal, herbal yellow Chartreuse, bitter-sweet Aperol, and fresh lime juice (Restocked!).
- Margarita (26%): A flawless canned classic blending blanco tequila, orange liqueur, and real lime juice (Restocked!).
- Oaxaca Old Fashioned (37%): A smoky, sophisticated twist on the classic, pairing mezcal and tequila with warm bitters (Restocked!).
