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Radio Extra: Breakroom Brewery Sneak Peek

By  Jon Hansen and Patty Wetli | December 23, 2014 12:41pm 

Meet the Breakroom team, clockwise, left to right: Founder, owner and CEO Aaron Heineman; head brewer, Matt Pallen; general manager Dean Ordzowialy.
Meet the Breakroom team, clockwise, left to right: Founder, owner and CEO Aaron Heineman; head brewer, Matt Pallen; general manager Dean Ordzowialy.
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IRVING PARK — When it comes to building bars, woodworker Aaron Heineman is Chicago's go-to guy.

You can belly up to his handiwork at Revolution Brewing, Gale Street Inn and Old Town Social, among others, but Heineman's commission for Breakroom Brewery's 40-footer is perhaps his most important project to date.

It's certainly the most personal — Heineman is Breakroom's founder, president and CEO.

On this DNAinfo Radio Extra, Patty Wetli previews the new Irving Park brewpub:

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