My Month of Flagships: RevBrewChicago Anti-Hero IPA -- A Chicago staple that conquered the Midwest. craftbeer beertwitter FlagshipFebruary hops
Given that this is a series of essays on regional brewery flagships, and given also that my interest in craft beer first dawned as I turned 21 in the mid-2000s, the beers featured in the series have a tendency to predate my own beer drinking days. I wasn’t there, obviously, when Californians were first discovering the wonders ofPale Ale in the early 1980s, and I certainly wasn’t participating when the likes of Samuel Adams Boston Lager spearheaded the first microbrewery boom in the 1990s.
There’s little doubt that Revolution was the “brewery of the decade” for Chicago in the 2010s, at least in terms of widespread cultural impact. There may be several others in that conversation, especially the likes of Half Acre or Off Color, but Revolution was the outfit to truly inherit the mantle of “Chicago’s craft brewery” after’s shocking sale in 2011 to Anheuser-Busch InBev, which would of course kick off the cycle of acquisition that consumed most of the last decade.
Suffice to say, it was a beer that blew me away at the time, possessing a dimension of hop flavor I had rarely encountered in IPAs of the day. I liked it so much, in fact, that I even wrote to Revolution founder Josh Deth in late 2010 , specifically asking for hints as to its hop varietals, in order to brew a homebrew clone of some kind. I eventually brewed that very beer in honor of my younger brother’s 21st birthday, pushing him down the same path of hops exposure.
When I first tasted this beer, way back then, it struck me as fiercely, defiantly hoppy, with a genuinely citrusy and fruit-forward character I had rarely experienced in an IPA before. Today, I perceive it differently, but I know it’s one of those cases where it’sthat has changed over the years, rather than the beer.
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