In the mid-1990s, customers and bartenders at Goose Island Brewpub, which started producing craft beers in Chicago in 1988, began asking for a house-made root beer. So the company’s founder ...

At some point, the Goose Island name was dropped and WBC Root Beer came on the scene. Today, the bottle still states the root beer was "born on Goose Island, Chicago, Illinois, in 1988." ...

Root beer is back. That’s right, root beer -- the dark brown stuff, ... Gordon Biersch and Goose Island, which have taken to including root beer in their rosters.

This backlash was felt by Hall and Goose Island when the company sold part of the company to the Craft Beer Alliance in 2006 and later, in 2011, when the company stakeholders sold to Anheuser ...

Root beer: The revival of an all-American. News. ... Gordon Biersch and Goose Island, ... Olde Rhode Island Molasses Root Beer. Very dark color, ...

What: Goose Island Chicago-style root beer. Details: Made with 100 percent cane sugar, this root beer is rich and creamy with strong notes of vanilla. It's also caffeine free. Where: Most Heinen's ...

(Crain's) — Chicago's premier craft brewery, Goose Island, is selling itself to distribution partner and minority owner Anheuser-Busch InBev N.V. for $38.8 million and replacing its brewmaster ...

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Goose Island Beer Co. In fact, demand for the beer was so immense that it became the barometer to measure the trade value of beers on the secondhand market. BeerAdvocate gave it a perfect score, while ...