CHICAGO — For a guy who doesn’t drink beer, I have a surprising number of friends who drink a lot of beer, write about beer and are passionate about beer.
There’s my Tribune colleague Josh Noel, who compellingly charts the city’s beer business, especially the energetic, innovative segment known as craft beer which, as I understand it, is the liquid product made by independent brewers.
There is the prolific local writer June Skinner Sawyers, whose latest book is the delightfully informative “Chicago Beer: A History of Brewing, Public Drinking and the Corner Bar,” in which she tells us that this book “got its start as a guide to craft breweries’ before it morphed into its current form. .
