Chicago · Since 2010
It has always been about community. Connecting people, building relationships, creating memories that outlast the night. Sometimes that looks like a tasting festival where you meet the people who make the bottle. Sometimes it is a bar crawl that takes over a neighborhood. It ends the same way every time, with your crew already asking about the next one.
What we run
Same crew, two completely different evenings. One is a room you wander. The other is a neighborhood you take over.
20+ pours · Chicago · 21+
The makers stand behind their own bottles, and there is enough room to actually wander and ask questions. Not a line. A room.
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▶ Multi-night · Multi-neighborhood · 21+
Several nights, several neighborhoods, a different wristband each night and one promo card that works across all of them. Every crawl has its own theme, so dressing up is always encouraged.
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▶ Early access to tickets, member-only discounts and the odd perk we cannot put on a public page. No more than a couple of messages a month.
Watch your inbox. The next thing we send will be worth opening.
Venues · Brands · Staff
Every event we run is three groups of people saying yes. Here is the order it happens in.
We take a room in Lincoln Park or a strip of a neighborhood and build the night around it.
Makers and distributors bring the bottles and stand behind them all night.
Check-in, wristbands, pours, and keeping the whole thing moving.
200 people walk in, find their new favorite bottle, and leave already asking about the next Saturday.
Five venues who have hosted us, in their own words.
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Top Golf and four brands who have poured with us.
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The crew, on what it is actually like to work a night.
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Every night we have ever thrown is still on camera. Find yourself in the crowd, tag the friend who talked you into it, and remember why you said yes in the first place. Instagram is where the discounts and last-minute perks go out.
Recaps, venue walkthroughs and every event intro going back to the early crawls.
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Where the promotions go out first, plus the day-of stories from inside the room.
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An album per event per year. Where people find themselves and tag their friends the next morning.
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Short cuts of the walk-in, the venues and the people. Newest of our channels.
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530 videos, sixteen years of events.
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Every event album, going back years.
Years of writing about the bottles, the bars and this city. What we have learned from every room we have filled, and where to go when we are not throwing one.