On Monday May 27th at beginning at 3pm Local Option will be hosting “The Day After”. We will be tapping Cantillon Gueuze; a selection of rare variants from Goose Island’s Bourbon County series; releases from Pipeworks and 18th Street; and several Local Option Bierwerker beers.  This [...]

                        On Friday May 17 at 3pm Local Option will host “Regional Clusterfuck” the bar’s primary event for Chicago Craft Beer Week. The event will feature rare and highly sought after releases from Dark Horse, Central Waters, Against The Grain, Perennial Artisan Ales, and [...]

Friday April 26th beginning at 3pm Local Option will host the “Hipster Olympics”.  The events draft list will feature rare and highly sought after releases from De Dolle (Belgium), Founders (Michigan), Three Floyds (Indiana), Dark Horse (Michigan), and Struise (Belgium) in addition to new releases from Perennial Artisan Ales (St. Louis), Prairie Artisan Ales (Oklahoma), [...]

On Sunday April 21st Norwegian rockers KVELERTAK will land at Chicago’s Bottom Lounge for the maiden date on their North American headline tour in support of its sophomore release Meir. To celebrate the occasion, the band, venue and Roadrunner Records have teamed up with Chicago’s LOCAL OPTION BIERWERKER to have “Dampf Loc” and “Voku Hila” [...]

                              On Thursday 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 [...]

On Friday January 25th beginning at 3pm Local Option will host “A Tribute To Scarface”. The event is intended to fulfill two objectives: first to give thanks to Al Capone for making his adopted city Chicago known around the world for bootlegging liquor and prostitution. If not for Snorky people of Sweden would not know [...]

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On December 14th beginning at 3pm Local Option will host it’s final beer event of 2012: “Winter War”.  The courage of Finnish troops who successfully repelled invasions by air, land and sea from the Soviet Union in December 1939 will be honored by the tapping of the most defiant and subversive beers available.  Highlights include Barrel Aged [...]

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 [...]

Can I Go Out And Drink Tonight, Drink Tonight… On Friday October 26th starting at 3pm Local Option will host “Mommy, Can I Go Out And Drink Tonight?” Rare and evil offerings from Against The Grain / De Molen (Louisville/Netherlands), Brasserie de Franches-Montagnes [BFM] (Switzerland), Bayerischer Bahnhof (Germany), De Dolle (Belgium), and Perennial Artisan Ales [...]