But it ended with a bartender saying that Goose Island brewmaster Greg Hall urinated into two beer glasses while standing at the bar and Hall saying he “(screwed) up big time.” The incident ...

It was the second time that Hall, the former brewmaster at Goose Island Beer, had been involved in a sale with the parent of Budweiser. At the time, he joked that because of those two transactions ...

After brewing for nearly 25 years, John Hall, who founded Goose Island in 1998, is stepping down from his position as CEO, according to the Tribune. Hall, who has see his single hometown brewpub ...

Greg Hall, chief brewer at Goose Island, a Windy City craft brewery, urinated in two beer glasses at the nearby Bangers & Lace bar during a Friday night drinking binge, the Chicago Tribune reported.

Noel susses out wonderful details of Goose Island's infancy, like Hall modeling its first brewpub after TGI Friday’s and the departure of the company's first brewer (forebodingly, due to ...

Beer geeks are already wringing their hands that the sale of Goose Island Beer Co. to Anheuser ... But Goose founder and Chief Executive Officer John Hall said the brewery’s commitment to ...

The tradition of Bourbon County Stout has been around since 1992 when former brewmaster Greg Hall wanted to celebrate the 1,000th batch of beer brewed at Goose Island, which Hall’s father had founded.

Last year around this time, hundreds of gallons of Goose Island’s Bourbon County Brand Stout were being distilled at Rhine Hall to make bierschnaps. The spirit originated in Bavaria, where small ...

And so this profound foreshadowing is how my long conversation started with John Hall, the founder of Goose Island Beer Company (Goose Island). For anyone who has followed the meteoric rise of ...

Back in 1992, for the 1,000th batch of Goose Island beer, the brewer Greg Hall, wanted to create something unique, a one-off beer. What resulted was the brewery’s first bourbon barrel-aged stout.

Three years later, Josh Noel would publish Barrel-Aged Stout and Selling Out, chronicling the steps that led Hall and his father, John (the company’s founder), to sell Goose Island. In 2024 ...