TagaBrew USA - Illinois Trail

09/25/2026

We are excited to announce that Emancipation Brewing Company is now live on the TagaBrew trail 🍺❤️🍺.

They are a family-owned farm brewery and taproom located in rural Fairbury, Illinois (Livingston County).

Housed in a refurbished, century-old dairy barn situated right on a working family farm. Offers a tranquil, rural, and serene atmosphere surrounded by farmland, featuring a cozy indoor taproom and a spacious outdoor area.

Founded in February 2019 by the Slagel family with a focus on community and crafting high-quality beers with intentional, premium ingredients.

Get there soon to add their tag & charm to your TagaBrew collection 🔥💪🍻

09/24/2026

We are excited to announce that Pollyanna Brewing Company (Roselle) is now live on the TagaBrew trail 🔥🍻❤️.

Features 24 taps with Pollyanna craft beers, rotating guest options, local wine from neighbor Lynfred Winery, and in-house distilled spirits and cocktails.

Includes an indoor taproom and a large outdoor biergarten that hosts food trucks and live music.

Stop in for their delicious beers and while there get your TagaBrew gear.

Congrats to Alfred Mullé II for being the first collector to get a Pollyanna charm from the Roselle location.

09/23/2026

That’s awesome. Can you ship to Michigan?

09/23/2026

Pretty cool. Brothership Brewing is traveling to the Pacific Northwest for the 2026 Hop Harvest. Great ingredients helps make awesome beers.

Wheels up! We are off to the Pacific Northwest for 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝐇𝐨𝐩 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭. Tomorrow we will be selecting crop lots for some of our most frequently used hops including Citra, Simcoe, Mosaic, and Krush. Enjoy some of the 2025 harvest selections on draft tonight for 𝐅𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐍𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 where (4) 5oz pours are $10. Distribution has begun for 𝐊𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐡 𝐂𝐫𝐲𝐨 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐱 (DDH New England Triple IPA), 𝐉𝐮𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐦 (DDH West Coast Triple IPA), 𝐌𝐨𝐨 𝐅𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 (Milk Stout with Cocoa Nibs), and 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐳𝐞𝐧 (Oktoberfest German Lager). 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐝 (𝐃𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐥) (𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔) 5oz Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout premium pours are available to start the week! Taproom open 2-9PM. 🍻👽✈️

09/23/2026

Chicago Area Microbreweries is an amazing page to follow if you enjoy breweries and craft beer.

Don Hardy does an amazing job managing the page and putting out great content. Truly someone that just wants to help local breweries get attention for their craft.

Please follow or like their page.

09/21/2026

Here is another reason to visit Keg Grove Brewing Company - Bloomington

🎃 Show Me Your Stem 🍺

A light bodied wheat beer with just the right blend of pumpkin and warm spices. You know we love to kick it up a notch… so why not dress yours up with a graham cracker rim, whipped cream, and a little nutmeg.

It’s the perfect beer for a cool fall day- sweatshirt on, friends gathered around, and a pint in hand on the patio.

Cheers! 🍻

09/20/2026

Story time Sunday -

About five years or so ago Jan and I visited a new brewery in Southeast Michigan as part of a fundraiser we were doing. The brewery was Loaded Dice Brewery and we were selling tee shirts where all the profit went back to local breweries. Our way of helping the industry during COVID.

We set up shop in the cozy & boisterous taproom and quickly were drawing a crowd and having some fun. The owner (Jef Smith) is a friend of ours and it was great to be visiting his brewery. There was a good size crowd and it was a Saturday evening so the place was jumping.

I naturally opened up a tab for Jan and I and then proceeded to spend the bulk of my time walking through the bar and meeting people and swiping stories and drinking some amazing beers with the new friends I was making.

Jan at some point without my knowledge walked up to the register and asked the young bartender if he could change the name on our tab to Jackass. The bartender was confused but Jennifer Smith (owner) laughed and told him to just go with it. This is going to be good at some point.

I kept working the crowd and having fun as my mug was going through multiple refills. Little did I know that Jan was following up behind me with each group I stopped in and visited. She would tell them if they wanted a free beer, just go up to the counter and put it on Jackass’ tab.

I never caught on. Even after a couple of hours. As closing time approached we started taking down our tee shirt display table and getting ready to leave. The crowd was cheering for us and wishing us well and laughing about something. I just thought I had made a bunch of new friends and it was a great night out at Loaded Dice.

I went up to the counter to close out my tab. As I looked at our bill, I was shocked. I turned around to ask what was up and the whole place shouted back at me, Thank you Jackass.

Wow, Jan really got me with that one. Always a fun story to retell.

The gang inside the taproom wished us well and asked if we would be back next Saturday. I said most definitely, but that night the tab would be under Du***ss.

09/17/2026

If you know this brewery’s logo, then you know which brewery we are working with to hopefully join the TagaBrew trail.

If interested, stop in and pay them a visit. Let them know you enjoy the TagaBrew program and would like to see them participating.

Enjoy their taproom because they make some great beers 🍺❤️🍺

09/17/2026

An amazing beer from our friends at Urban Forest Craft Brewing. And $1 from every pint is donated to the ALS Therapy Development Institute.

Do your part by drinking this fabulous beer 🍻

If you saw us at Screw City Beer Festival you were one of the first to try this beer! Now on tap, "Ale for ALS". A West Coast Style IPA brewed with an exclusive hop blend from Yakima Chief Hops just for Ales for ALS! This year's blend has Simcoe, Citra, Ekuanot and Columbus hops which all combine here for a modernized West Coast IPA. It has that signature crisp piney and resinous bitterness, but with tropical and citrus fruit complexity layerd in. $1 from every pint sold will go to the ALS Therapy Development Institute.

09/17/2026

Let’s hear how many tags & charms you have collected from these five breweries 🍺❤️🍺