Suncatcher Brewing, based in Chicago, creates American microbrewed pub beers shaped upon a foundation of Midwestern grown malt and hops. Through the prism of beer, Suncatcher Brewing strives to concentrate the positive energies continually absorbed via our collective experiences and disperse them back throughout our community. Visit our brewery taproom and beer garden on Chicago’s west side when we open this fall.
While we build our taproom brewery in Chicago, we traveled east into the Green Mountains of Vermont to retreat and create. The Suncatcher Sessions at Hill Farmstead was our first attempt at forging Midwestern ingredients into sturdy and satisfying ales. They comprise a Pale Ale, Red Ale, and Brown ale, all brewed under the April full moon. We’re immensely grateful to Hill Farmstead for opening their doors and stewarding our beers through their brewery. You’ve provided us a tranquil and stimulating environment to dream our beers.
As a founding and ongoing partner in Half Acre Beer Company, Matt has helped guide that business for over 15 years. In recent years, Matt has envisioned a neighborhood pub brewery, with roots in British influenced beers. By extension, the beers brewed at Suncatcher are built out of that desire to provide a place to convene over balanced, sessionable ales and lagers.
While Matt will focus on brewing, Rog will focus on the pouring. As our front of house guru, Rog is a beverage industry veteran in his own right. He spent 10 years at Half Acre in both sales and front of house roles, and most recently, heading sales at Dark Matter Coffee. He’s everyone’s instant best friend with personality to fill a pint glass, thankfully also beer.
Laura Gallagher and Sally McGuin help keep the ship running behind the scenes. When they’re not at their real jobs, or enjoying a pint, they are working to make Suncatcher Brewing a reality for all of us.
Suncatcher Pale Ale grafts refreshing flavors of melon and citrus pith from Michigan grown Centennial, Chinook, and Nugget hops onto a foundation of subtle sweetness from Indiana grown and malted pale malt. A simple, relaxing pale beer that enables the mind to wander while the conversation flows.
Suncatcher Red Ale highlights a blend of crystalized barley and rye, providing layers of rich spicy caramel rye punctuated by herbal resin and bright citrus via a balanced dry hop of Chinook, Michigan Copper, and Nugget. Southwest Michigan grown hops and central Indiana malted barley and rye intertwine into a balanced hybrid experience perfect for the long shoulder seasons. This beer pours a tawny deep orange hue and finishes with a satisfying rye heft.
Suncatcher Brown Ale is effortlessness in a pint. A duo of high kilned base malts along with a plethora of drum roasted barley and rye provide waves of undulating toasty, chocolate crackers. Balanced by Vermont grown Nugget, this dry, medium bodied ale sends you adrift into the ether.
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