Empirical Brewery

Saturday's "Cold Crawl" will benefit Coat Angels, which provides winter coats to local schoolkids.

Seventy percent of the food menu is beer-infused, including a stout milkshake with beer whipped cream.

The brewery will honor Prince all day Friday on the one-year anniversary of the icon's death.

"It's an exciting time for the neighborhood. A lot is going on," 49th Ward Ald. Joe Moore said. 

The brewery's second location will include a five-barrel production system in a now vacant storefront.

What to do without baseball? Here are a few ideas.

Gozer was a member of a feral cat colony that guards the brewery's grain.

Empirical Brewery's Beardtober Fest even has a category for the follicly challenged.

The festival will take place along Clark Street from Argyle Street to Carmen Avenue.

Ravenswood is also getting a farmers market this summer.

The brewery cats at Empirical have inspired a "Working Cats" art exhibit, opening Feb. 25.

"If a brewer says they don't have rats, they're lying," said Bill Hurley, owner of Empirical Brewery.

The menu at Empirical Brewery's taproom will include experimental beers in the development phase.

Taprooms, pubs and breweries from North Park to Roscoe Village will host some of the premier events.

Voters will score beers based on three categories: “Style,” “Drinkability” and “Overall Awesomeness.”