NEW BEER ALERT!! October 31st, 2017 we quietly opened Mousetrap to the public for one night. A few days later we loudly announced our official opening and had an appropriately epic celebration on FOBAB Saturday. That was so much fun it’s become a yearly tradition.

Also available is the new Mousetrap .25l tasting glass featuring the Off Color mouse wielding a flamethrower in front of the stunning city line reflected back in Chicago’s very own Bean. Glass: https://t.co/OzdKs9NPbC

Got some sweet new merch in today! Our red rugby style shirt features the Off Color Brewing rugby mouse embroidered on the chest and is fashionable for a night out but sturdy enough to withstand a good scrum. Heads up that they run a little oversized. https://t.co/DiWpECr6U7

Hope to see you this week and next week. #chicagobeer #offcolorbrewing

About a week later, on Saturday, November 8th, we’ll throw our annual FOBAB Saturday anniversary party where we’ll release a whole mess of new beers and take a deep dive into our cellar for one of our best draft lists of the year. More info coming on all that.

Not wanting to forget our humble Halloween beginnings, this Friday (10/31) we’ll be releasing a brand new beer brewed to celebrate Mousetrap’s eighth anniversary. Beer for Cake is a Black Forest cake inspired Marzen with black cherry juice, lactose, and cocoa nibs.

Numbers 22 & 23 of #25in2025 for #booksky is a reread of #BetweenTheWorldAndMe & the @OffcolorBrewing book of the month for November. Within striking distance now of the goal! What should I end on?

It’s Puptoberfest at @ocmousetrap today from noon until 3pm. Paradise Rescue is bringing through some adoptable pups who are looking for forever homes. Swing through for a beer and maybe even a new best friend.

Soon is tomorrow when Mousetrap opens.

New “Beer for” coming soon…

The final result is a beer that tastes great and is twice as filling! Available on draft and 4pks of 16oz cans at Mousetrap on Thursday. Distro to follow.

We added as much fermentable sugar as our equipment and yeast can tolerate and then conditioned the beer on 50% more crushed vanilla beans and 50% more cocoa nibs than we’ve ever used before. A moderate dose of lactose sugar provides additional sweetness.

While OG DinoS’mores focuses on Scandinavian brewing techniques which place a greater emphasis on variety of roasted malts and drier body to create bitterness, Double Stuffed DinoS’mores captured the American brewing spirit of cramming way too much into the same sized package.

Like a perfectly toasted marshmallow, the flavor teeters between honey and roasted but avoids any burnt notes. The heavy alcohol only lurks well after the brew is quaffed but will leave you feeling as warm as leaving your shoes too close to the campfire.

We got a second release coming Thursday at Mousetrap!! Double Stuffed Dino S’mores is a bigger, bolder variant of our classic Dino S’mores Imperial S’more stout. Bold sweet confectionery chocolate aromatics give way to a rich, creamy mouthfeel.

I drew a mouse riding a bike.

Bustling and full of life and lust like the hometown throng leaving a victorious Chicago Fire match. A rare occurrence filled with pride, zeal, and hope. Available on draft and 375ml bottles to-go Thursday at Mousetrap.

None the less, two years later Orange Ghost emerged. Lively acidity & a fruit salad potpourri of kiwi, candied lime, green strawberry, and blossom honey surge forth over a china bone white foam. Palate is a crowded affair of peach flesh, honeydew melon, cherries, & white pepper.

The soil is an amalgam of “wind deposited ancient or sedimentary alluvials and decomposed basalt over a lime-silica hard pan” which the grower makes sound of great importance but we are but simple brewers and that goes entirely over my head.

Orange Ghost follows this methodology using our collaborative wild fermented wit beer “Ghost Lemons” made with Allagash in 2023. Five hectoliters of the beer was racked into a mature Italian wine puncheon and laid to rest on top a bed of crushed Roussanne white grapes.