Friends look on as drinkers enjoy a plethora of well traveled beers at Local Option On Friday November 16th beginning at 3pm Local Option will host the “5730.06 Miles of Beer” event.  Beer nerds from around the world will flock to 1102 W. Webster to basque in the glory of the superb draught offerings from [...]

Local Option will be present at The Festival in Worcester on June 23rd and 24th.  The Festival – organized by 12% Imports and Shelton Brothers – will boast an impressive list of brewers and breweries from around the world including Mikkeller, Evil Twin, Cantillon, De Molen, Djaevlebryg, Haandbryggeriet and many others..  We will be proud [...]

Local Option will host the release of the Bourbon Barrel aged La Petite Mort on Today at 3pm. The event will also feature 14 other rare and highly sought after releases from Central Waters Brewing Co. – on draft – and the most metal salad bar ever. Draft List: Against The Grain Brown Note Against The [...]

                              On March 14th at 3:14pm Local Option will host Pi Observance Day.  The event seeks to commemorate the mathematical constant Pi; the finest harmonic distortion-sustain device developed to date; and the signature sandwich of New Orleans, the Muffaletta, by tapping thirty-one [...]

RateBeer.com has recently unveiled it’s Best Beer Bars in the World for 2012.  For the second year in a row Local Option has made the list and is the only bar in Illinois mentioned.  Read the full list by clicking HERE.

In Part II for “Anatomy Of A Beer Menu“ we sit down with Chitown On Tap to discuss the beers we will have on draft at Occupy The Local Option.  Here’s a snippet: read more HERE. Central Waters Exodus - Sour red ale aged with cherries from northern Wisconsin in bourbon barrels.  Good luck finding this [...]