Goose Island Brewery
Brewery located in Chicago, Illinois, US / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Goose Island Beer Company is a brewery in Chicago. The oldest currently-operating brewing company in Illinois, it began as a brewpub that opened in 1988 in the Lincoln Park neighborhood, and was named after a nearby island. A larger production brewery opened in 1995. A second brewpub, in Wrigleyville, opened in 1999 and closed in 2015.[1]
Location | Chicago, Illinois United States | ||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 41.887133°N 87.672134°W / 41.887133; -87.672134 | ||||||||||||||
Opened | 1988 | ||||||||||||||
Key people | John Hall (Founder) Todd Ahsmann (President) Daryl Hoedtke (Brewmaster) | ||||||||||||||
Owned by | Anheuser-Busch InBev | ||||||||||||||
Website | gooseisland | ||||||||||||||
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Their beers are distributed across the United States, and the United Kingdom after a stake of the company was sold to Widmer Brothers Brewery in 2006,[2] and the brewery was able to expand into different markets.[3] In 2011, Goose Island was sold to Anheuser-Busch InBev.[4][upper-alpha 1] Greg Hall stepped down as brewmaster with the AB InBev purchase in 2011; Brett Porter was hired as the new brewmaster.[4]