Craft Beer

The reasons Illinois specialty farmers are slow to embrace hops production include a high risk for crop failure — no federal crop insurance is offered to cover hops production in Illinois — and an underdeveloped statewide market for their harvested crop.

Bloomington-Normal's largest brewery has won a gold medal at this year's Great American Beer Festival. The award for Destihl comes as brewing continues to boom nationwide.

Heartland Community College’s Challenger Learning Center is tapping into local beermaking expertise for a unique immersive Escape Room experience this…

PMP Fermentation Products is a company with some 50 employees operating on the Peoria riverfront, overlooking a public housing project and the RiverPlex...

The pandemic has hurt so many businesses in central Illinois. But not, apparently, some alcohol producers.Lil Beaver Brewery on the south end of…

Surrounded by farmland as far as the eye can see, Lincoln Slagel showed off a crop you don't see too often here in central Illinois: hops.His mostly…

McLean County could soon be getting its fifth craft brewery—and its first in Uptown Normal.Plans are underway to open the Fiala Brothers Brewhouse at 127…

Gov. Bruce Rauner visited Destihl Brewery on Saturday to sign a measure that he said will cut costs and bureaucratic red tape for craft breweries across…

Bloomington-Normal’s latest craft beer destination is officially open for business.Keg Grove Brewing Co. opened Friday. It’s located at 712 E. Empire St.…

When you think of Bloomington-Normal brands with national or even international reputations, it's State Farm and Beer Nuts. Now Destihl is on the…