/// BARREL-DEPTH ANOMALY DETECTED IN CHICAGO SECTOR /// Bourbon County Triple Barrel Stout is Goose Island’s surprise addition to its 2026 Bourbon County Brand lineup: a rye stout aged for three years through three successive bourbon barrels, bottled at 18.7% ABV, and sold only in Chicago starting Black Friday, Nov. 27. Bureau scanners classify this...

A second den has appeared on Mill Avenue. Phantom Fox Tempe, the new taproom from Mesa’s Phantom Fox Beer Co., opened Thursday, Oct. 8, at 525 S. Mill Ave. with Goat & Ram’s wood-fired pizza inside. It fills the former Illegal Pete’s space just south of Fifth Street, Mouth by Southwest reports, and Bureau telemetry...

Greetings, Earthlings! Southern Oak Brewing opened Wednesday, Oct. 7, at 308 Market St. in Old Town Tomball, Texas, putting a brewpub back in the former Fire Ant space with 28 taps and a chef-driven kitchen. Fire Ant closed May 17 after eight years when owners Bruce and Sylvia Kissinger retired, Hoodline reports. The grand opening...

Two administrations in a little over two years, and now a new owner. Black Hops, the Gold Coast brewery known for hazy IPAs and experimental small batches, has been bought by Tribe Breweries out of its second voluntary administration. The deal was announced in a media release that The Crafty Pint published in full on...

Bureau taste-sensor alert: a porter brewed with soup stock. Sketchbook Brewing’s Umami Porter, a smoked porter made with Japan’s Wakayama Brewery and its owner-brewer Tomoyuki Yoshida, tapped at noon Friday, Oct. 9, at both Sketchbook taprooms in Evanston and Skokie, Illinois, per JollyPint. Sketchbook’s own draft menus list it at 6.0% ABV. One naming wrinkle:...

Black Flag Brewing Co. in Columbia, Maryland, could close for good on Nov. 30 if a pending sale of the brewery falls through, founder Brian Gaylor told The Baltimore Banner. After about 10 years at 9315 Snowden River Parkway, the brewery’s fate now hangs on whether a buyer can get its financing together before the...

Kannah Creek Brewing Company in Grand Junction, Colorado, will close after service on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026, its 21st anniversary, and it plans to go out with a live band, KKCO 11 News reports. Owners Jim and Bernadette Jeffrys, both in their 70s, are retiring. For what KKCO calls a “cornerstone Grand Junction spot,” the...