Off Color Brewing Mousetrap

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• Guinness Draught 0.0

  Non-Alcoholic · 0.0% · Dublin, Ireland

  Introducing Guinness 0.0. Brewed with our new cold filtration process. This ensures you get the same beautifully smooth taste, perfectly balanced flavour and unique dark colour of Guinness Draught, just without the alcohol. The latest in 250 years of innovation, Guinness 0.

  16oz Can 8

• Sierra Nevada Trail Pass IPA

  Non-Alcoholic · 0.5% · CA & NC

  Grapefruity, Mango, Tropical, Non-Alcoholic

  12oz Can 6

On Tap

• Off Color + Allagash Ghost Lemons

  Witbier · 5.1% · Chicago, IL

  Funky wit featuring a blush of summer peach, preserved lemon and marmalade with kiwi, and hay. Barnyard funk dissipates with a twinge of tartness to a slight saline finish reminiscent of brackish water and memories of lemons past.

  8oz Draft 6

  13oz Draft 8

• Off Color Apex Predator

  Saison · 6.5% · Chicago, IL

  This American-Belgian hybrid style combines free rise fermentation with a traditional Belgian saison yeast and a hefty, American style dry hopping. Explosive juicy fruit, bubblegum, and pineapple aromas alongside a lemongrass hop profile

  8oz Draft 4

  13oz Draft 6

• Off Color Aqua Predator

  Saison · 6.8% · Chicago, IL

  Wet hopped farmhouse. Using fresh whole cone fresh Cashmere hops from Michigan's Hop Head Farms. Fun twist on Apex Predator.

  8oz Draft 5

  16oz Draft 7

• Off Color Beer For Hell

  Helles Bock · 6.2% · Chicago, IL

  Although our base Helles Bock was designed simply to pick up notes of whiskey during a rest in oak barrels, our staff just kept going back to the zwickel for after shift beers. They were drawn to the clean malt notes and fruity/boozy mouthfeel... more

  8oz Draft 5

  16oz Draft 7

• Off Color Beer For Lounging

  American Pale Ale · 5.0% · Chicago, IL

  Strong hop aromas of grapefruit, pine, orange rind, and pear are the focal point of this classic American style. A single hop beer featuring Cascade hops providing big aroma and a mild bitterness balanced with a bread crumb malt profile.

  8oz Draft 5

  16oz Draft 7

• Off Color Beer For Power Plays

  Dark Lager · 7.5% · Chicago, IL

  Baltic style strong dark lager that's mahogany in color with notes of cocoa nibs and prunes that mask a deceptively smooth 7.5% ABV.

  8oz Draft 5

  16oz Draft 7

• Off Color Beer For The Future

  Belgian Blonde · 5.5% · Chicago, IL

  Up front the Belgian yeast crafts peppercorn character with a melon tray of cantaloupe, tangerine, and candied lemon. Unique notes of earthy, morning dew and sunflower seeds connect our rustic agrarian past with our modern sustainable future.

  8oz Draft 5

  13oz Draft 7

• Off Color Crispy Beer For Pizza

  Italian Pilsner · 5.0% · Chicago, IL

  Italian pilsner with enough crust malt character to hold its own against an enhanced hop profile featuring herbaceous notes of thyme with just a hint of pine.

  8oz Draft 5

  16oz Draft 7

• Off Color Juicy Beer For Burgers

  Pale Ale · 6.0% · Chicago, IL

  Our most hopped beer EVER! Double hop backings Cascade, Citra, and Mosaic hops brought out the aromatic pleasures of a hop rub including sweet, savory and slightly dank aromas with fruit notes.

  8oz Draft 6

  16oz Draft 8

• Off Color Pistachios

  Cream Ale · 4.2% · Chicago, IL

  American cream ale with pistachios and vanilla.

  8oz Draft 5

  16oz Draft 7

• Off Color Raspberry Beer For Golf

  Fruited Witbier · 4.8% · Chicago, IL

  This beer is the sequel Caddyshack deserved. Pouring deep scarlet in color with the aroma of ripe raspberry is proof that no raspberries were spared from this brew. Lemon and Yunnan black tea caddies the round providing brightness, subtle raisin notes, and a mild tannic finish.

  8oz Draft 6

  13oz Draft 8

• Off Color Sa Santé

  Golden Ale · 5.5% · Chicago, IL

  Belgian style golden ale brewed in abbey tradition with the yeast purportedly used at the famed Trappist Abbey of Notre-Dame de Saint-Rémy in Wallonia better know simply as Rochefort... more

  8oz Draft 6

  13oz Draft 8

• Off Color Tequila Barrel Aged Beer For Tacos

  Gose · 5.8% · Chicago, IL

  There’s only one thing that you could say is “missing” from our margarita inspired gose with lime. The tequila. Well not for this Beer for Tacos variant In this latest version, our house gose spent three months aging in both lime gin barrels and "pink" tequila barrels that previously held red wine.

  8oz Draft 7

  13oz Draft 9

Wild/Acidic

• Off Color Cranberry Fox In The Snow

  American Wild Ale · 8.4% · Chicago, IL

  Foeder aged wild ale with cranberries

  8oz Draft 9

• Off Color Market Rate

  American Wild Ale · 5.8% · Chicago, IL

  2021 release. A wild ale brewed annually for Green City Market with both unripened green and ripened Mara de Bois strawberries from Seedling Farms that are left to sleep for a year in wine barrels.

  8oz Draft 9

• Off Color Saisei / Rebirth

  American Wild Ale · 5.9% · Chicago, IL

  Foedre fermented Wild Saison refermented with Montmorency Cherries blended with Sencha Green Tea and Japanese Cherry Blossoms: Blushing forth with scents of wild blossom honey, lemon peel, violets, and honeysuckle nectar until spring progresses... more

  8oz Draft 7

  13oz Draft 9

Cans - Onsite Consumption

• Off Color Aqua Regia

  Barleywine · 9.0% · Chicago, IL

  Peach-orange and autumnally hued, Aqua Regia is a rich, luxurious barleywine of English persuasion... more

  12oz Can 9

• Off Color Beer For Ball Games

  Cream Ale · 4.2% · Chicago, IL

  A pretty neat, historical hybrid style made with ale yeast fermented cool in order to mimic the flavors and crispness of lager before the widespread availability of refrigeration. Light, crisp, and ridiculously refreshing.

  16oz Can 6

• Off Color Beer For Beaches

  Farmhouse Ale · 6.0% · Chicago, IL

  Farmhouse ale with cranberry, peach, and lemon. Inspired by a Sex on the Beach cocktail.

  16oz Can 7

• Off Color Beer For Golf

  Witbier · 4.5% · Chicago, IL

  Arnold Palmer inspired Wit with lemon, black tea, and coriander.

  16oz Can 7

• Off Color Beer for Tacos

  Gose · 4.5% · Chicago, IL

  Margarita inspired, adding lime juice to our gose lends a bright citric acid character to the existing lactic acid creating a complex tartness. The wheat body is accented by a hefty dose of pink Himalayan salt.

  16oz Can 6

• Off Color Le Petite Ferme

  Saison · 4.8% · Chicago, IL

  Easy-drinking sessionable saison with elderflower.

  16oz Can 7

• Off Color Lost In Maine

  Belgian Ale · 5.5% · Chicago, IL

  A blend of about 70% farmhouse beer to 30% apple juice hand selected, and pressed at Ricker Hill Orchards in Turner, Maine... more

  16oz Can 8

• Off Color Sibling Rivalry

  Tripel · 8.0% · Chicago, IL

  Belgian-style tripel featuring Sorachi Ace hops, brewed with the Chouffe yeast strain

  16oz Can 10

• Off Color Sī Fáng

  Pale Lager · 4.5% · Chicago, IL

  Sī Fáng, which loosely translates to “Secret Recipe”, is an International style pale lager brewed with Black Tea and Osmanthus flowers made in collaboration with our good friends and favorite dumpling shop in Chicago, Qing Xian Yuan (lovingly shortened to QXY).

  16oz Can 7

• Off Color Tooth and Claw

  Pilsner · 5.0% · Chicago, IL

  Czech style lager featuring European hops accompanied by a delicate maltiness while finishing semi-dry. Fun fact: this brew was first developed for the Field Museum; it's their house beer!

  16oz Can 6

Bottles - Onsite Consumption

• Boulevard Tank 7

  Saison · 8.5% · Kansas City, MO

  A big surge of fruity aromatics and grapefruit-hoppy notes, the flavor of this complex, straw-colored ale tapers off to a peppery, dry finish.

  12oz Bottle 8

• Off Color + Allagash + Jackie O's + Jester King + Central State + Side Project + Keeping Together Miscellanea Vol. 4

  American Wild Ale · 6.2% · Chicago, IL

  An ongoing collaborative project collecting and incorporating the house bretts, native yeasts, and wild cultures into a single foedre.

  250ml Bottle 8

• Off Color Boysenberry Fox

  American Wild Ale · 8.4% · Chicago, IL

  Bracingly tart and egret red in color, this Belgian style wild ale was aged for 18 months in one of our Italian Barolo foedres before jumping into a bath of Boysenberries and blackberry juice. Layered berry character flutters between raspberries, blackberries, nectarines and peach... more

  375ml Bottle 18

• Off Color Critters

  American Wild Ale · 6.1% · Chicago, IL

  Funky Belgian Style Wit brewed with Coriander and Orange Peel

  250ml Bottle 7

• Off Color Gator Time

  American Wild Ale · 6.0% · Chicago, IL

  Delicately tart, perfume forward cherry saison aged in one of our Barolo wine foedres

  250ml Bottle 8

• Off Color Scourge

  Imperial Stout · 9.9% · Chicago, IL

  An experimental Belgo-Stout reminiscent of dark cocoa powder, freshly roasted coffee, and baked roadside pies tempered by the alluring, summer flowers and blueberry nectar from our native yeasts.

  250ml Bottle 8

• Off Color Space Tiger

  American Wild Ale · 7.8% · Chicago, IL

  Fermented with our house funk culture & dosed with just the right blend of hops creates a melange of lemon, farmhouse, and tropical notes.

  250ml Bottle 6

• Orval

  Belgian Ale · 6.2% · Orval Abbey, Florenville, Belgium

  Belgian Pale Ale

  11.2oz Bottle 10

Featured

• B. Nektar Zombie Killer

  Cider · 5.5% · Ferndale, MI

  Hard cider with tart cherry juice and star thistle honey. 100% gluten free.

  12oz Can 9

• Farnum Hill Extra Dry Cider

  Cider · 7.5% · Lebanon, NH

  Richly aromatic, suggesting myriad fruits of the earth, and the earth itself, with a complex, palate-cleansing balance of fruitiness, astringency, and acid.

  12oz Can 9

• Off Color Cat Fiend

  Hard Iced Tea · 5.0% · Chicago, IL

  All the flavor and balance you'd expect from a hard iced tea brewed with whole-leaf black tea by the Off Color team. Unsweetened, uncarbonated, gluten free but contains moderate alcohol and caffeine so you can indulge day or night.

  16oz Can 7

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