Ale Syndicate Brewers

We’ve spent years homebrewing–and we got good at it. We moved to Northern California and got the chance of a lifetime: to start our own brewery, making the only bottled craft beer in the city of Oakland.

The beer took off. The stores kept selling out. But something was missing. We missed Chicago.

Don’t get us wrong, California’s great. But we always had a Chicago flag hanging in the brewery. We missed just about everything about Chicago. The toughness. The skyline. The winter. Even rust - nothing rusts in California. We missed the spirit of audaciousness that is uniquely Chicago. A drive to do big things.