USA, IL: Howard Street Brewing Company eyeing May opening
Howard Street Brewing Company will open in May, just east of the El stop in the old Howard Theatre Building in Chicago, the RogersEdge Reporter said on March 14.
Owner Chuck Patella said hes been brewing his own beer for years, and finally decided to go public with his passion.
Ive been making beer for about 10 years now nothing professional, just in my house, Patella said.
It sorta got to the point where I was just making it so much that it was going pretty quickly that I decided that it was probably time to start doing something professionally.
Dont look for televisions all over the place, or live bands. Patella, 40, said the business will be all about beer, and the creative process that goes into it.
We want this to be a place that inspires ideas and we think the best way to do that is to not have a lot of outside distractions, he said. Were not going to have TVs were not going to have live bands, its really just going to be the brew.
Patellas wife works next door at the Factory Theatre, which is what lead him to choose the location.
He also likes the fact that Rogers Park is a really diverse neighborhood with a lot of history there. We wanted to do something that sort of celebrates Howard Street and the history that its had there.
One feature of the business will be a program called Design. Brew. Wed. which will allow people to help design the beer for their own wedding.
I think what were trying to do is explore all different kinds of beer styles right, like we dont want to be pigeon holed into an IPA, or just sours, he said.