Few Chicago-area breweries are as underappreciated as Two Brothers.
It has never been the trendiest or flashiest brewery during its 25-year run. While Two Brothers tried to faithfully re-create European beer styles in its earliest days, Three Floyds carved a niche with intensely bitter, fruity India pale ales and Goose Island pioneered aging stouts in bourbon barrels — both industry hallmarks today. Even without such an innovative feather in its cap, Two Brothers has quietly led in its own way.
Most breweries rotate beers seasonally these days. But Two Brothers was among the first locally to get beer fans drinking to the seasons, an idea light years from how most Americans approached it at the time: picking a favorite light beer and drinking it all year long. As its name suggests, Two Brothers was launched by two brothers, Jason and Jim Ebel, who grew up in Wheaton and became enamored with beer culture while traveling in Europe in the early 1990s. Both brothers worked as architects before switching to beer after a few years of home brewing and operating a home brew store.
[Most read] Mayor Lightfoot’s plan to distribute prepaid gas, transit cards approved by City Council panelBut growth is strong in 2022, he said, and the brewery will celebrate its 25th anniversary — which technically was in October — at 5 p.m. Thursday at the Two Brothers Roundhouse in Aurora. The event features live music, Two Brothers’ 25th anniversary double IPA and retired beers returning for the milestone.
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