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The ‘Windy City’ is now experiencing a craft brewing boom with the number of local brew houses more than doubling in the past year.
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-- new information on -- booming industry in the windy city how about this -- is taking Chicago by storm these days.
We -- silent becoming the standard bearer for nearly fifties so called.
Craft brewers in the area what's behind this new friends well.
We turn -- a a guy knows a thing it's about -- Steve Brown.
Greg you have some work days are better than others -- revolution brewing in Chicago we're here to help.
The nation understand a little bit better why it -- so many in this city are saying.
-- -- -- Home of the blues and home to a lot of new.
-- Chicago drink a lot of beer and the Chicago beer drinker the pallets are becoming more educated they're becoming.
Morning -- in there's a lot more locally produced here.
The city's ongoing craft brewing.
-- -- -- -- Presents and people and here in the midwest -- just grounded to that way.
-- -- he is hoping to tap into the midwest market in beyond the founder and CEO of California based law that he desperately.
Is transforming it.
Chicago steel mill into a huge beer making operation of this jury will serve all of this -- United States from Denver all the way to.
Across the city another -- Chicago brewer dry -- plans a smaller operation comes spring.
There's been probably ten -- -- -- of open in the -- since we started working on this.
So that's really been exploding.
So much so getting a complete count is tough we've identified 46 -- By next year and that's just for now I would expect it to him -- double from Chicago.
Part of the growing culture in Chicago is the symbol institute north America's oldest brewing school 144 years old which reads it outlived.
Both the great Chicago fire and -- prohibition which was repealed.
79.
Years ago today right the good old days.
Steve Brown live in Chicago.
-- he's up thanks very much.
