{"id":46034,"date":"2019-05-14T16:10:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T21:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/?p=46034"},"modified":"2020-06-23T10:52:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T15:52:21","slug":"twisted-hippo-taproom-and-eatery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/twisted-hippo-taproom-and-eatery\/","title":{"rendered":"Twisted Hippo: A Unique Brewery, Eatery, & Tap Room in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking for a new hotspot where you can just be yourself? What if it was a cafe, eatery, brewery and tap room in Chicago all combined into one amazing place? Twisted Hippo Taproom and Eatery<\/span><\/a> does all of this and more, and it just opened in Albany Park early this year.<\/p>\n

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Twisted Hippo Taproom. Photo Credit: Lexi Genge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Embrace Your Strange” the exterior of this tap room in Chicago\u00a0<\/span>announces, and if you can do that, well, you belong here.<\/span><\/p>\n

Twisted Hippo is a Chicago brewery that keeps the focus on community gatherings, providing a hub for local neighborhoods to come together and make new connections. Twisted Hippo puts the ‘funky’ and ‘fresh’ in funky fresh by sporting an unusual fuschia and lime green color scheme and putting an emphasis on renewable energy and sustainable resources in the greenery planted throughout.<\/span><\/p>\n

This tap room in Chicago makes an effort to replace wasteful ingredients with spent grains\u2014leftover malt and adjuncts from the brewing process\u2014resulting in delicious spent grain cookies, bread, and granola. Twisted Hippo also coats their cheese curds with wort syrup, made from wort during the brewing process, <\/span>as well as offer vegetarian and vegan options for many of their dishes, to constantly reduce their carbon footprint.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pinky the Hippo, Twisted Hippo’s gloriously fanciful mascot, flaunts antlers and a killer wingspan to accentuate the entire concept behind this unusual tap room in Chicago. Everything at this brewery has a twist, be it the cocktails, the food, to the fictitious creature associated with the brand. Even the people who work at this Chicago brewery seem to have a little glint in their eyes, like they know exactly what they’re doing to revolutionize the beer world.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Unusual Brews. Photo Credit: Lexi Genge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Although this tap room in Chicago offers a lot of classic styles, you won\u2019t just find your typical IPA at this place. Whatever they concoct, it comes with a unique twist on the original concept, so trying the A.P.B. (A Passion Brut) will be much different than you might expect thanks to the added Passionfruit. Any questions to your bartender will quickly settle the dust though, and you’ll order with confidence, knowing that first sip will win you over anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n

In tandem with their efforts to be as transparent as possible, Twisted Hippo also has inclusive pricing on their menu. What you see is what you get; tax fees and tip are already included in the price, so all there’s left to do is enjoy yourself. That means no more awkward tension while splitting the bill amongst friends, and we know you can all breathe a sigh of relief about that.<\/p>\n

Twisted Hippo is a tap room in Chicago that releases new beers every Tuesday, and has even dabbled in some collaboractions with local breweries (collaborACTION, because the proceeds go toward helping an organization of their choice). These efforts are extremely important to the Twisted Hippo team, as they are always thinking of new ways to give back to charity. The most recent collab conducted by this Chicago brewery with Maplewood Brewing is Finger Biscuits, a Tiramisu White Stout with 6.6% ABV, still available on draft with the proceeds going toward One Tail at a Time.<\/p>\n

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Casual Game Day Eats. Photo Credit: Lexi Genge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There’s something going down at this tap room in Chicago every night of the week.<\/span><\/p>\n