Craft Beer Week Pours into Lincoln Square

Beer lovers can get their hops up for a craft beer celebration hitting Chicago in May.

Chicago Craft Beer Week, now in its fourth year, includes more than 250 venues offering special tastings and events from May 16-26.

This year’s beer week is focusing on the city’s smaller communities with the theme, “Chicago: A City of Neighborhoods.”

Lincoln Square is known for loving beer and the area isn't skimping on events in local bars.

Fork, at 4600 N. Lincoln Ave. will host a Tyranea Tap Takeover on May 20. The Wisconsin brewery will have several beers at the restaurant, including the Three Beaches Honey Blonde, which in unavailable in Chicago.

Half Acre taproom will make its beer week debut on May 17. Join the brewery for a beer festival at the Ravenswood Event Center, 4011 N. Ravenswood Ave.

The party will be an official celebration of Half Acre’s fifth anniversary.

Update: As of 11:45 a.m. Wednesday, tickets for the Half Acre event are sold out, according to a post on the brewery's Facebook page. 

"The goal of Chicago Craft Beer Week is as always, to entice patrons to explore the depth and breadth of local craft beer and honor those who enrich our community of beer lovers,” according to the event’s website.

The celebration coincides with American Craft Beer Week, May 13 to 19. Since 2006, the week includes more than 1,700 independent craft brewers.

See all Lincoln Square and Ravenswood events.

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