Craft beer with a Latin flair: An interview with Randy Mosher (Feature for Extra)

August 30, 2011 No comments yet
Craft beer with a Latin flair: An interview with Randy Mosher (Feature for Extra)

This feature originally appeared on the cover of Extra Newspaper.  ——- Brewer Randy Mosher is a partner at the new 5 Rabbit Cerveceria but he has been known in homebrewing and “Beer Nerd” circles for years.   Mostly because Mosher  wrote and designed the eye-catching and popular home brewing guide “Radical Brewing” and “The Brewer’s Companion.” [...]

Beer Bread and Bananas (Vámonos Vol. 5)

August 16, 2011 2 comments
Beer Bread and Bananas (Vámonos Vol. 5)

What can you eat anywhere? When you’re traveling there are many questions that continually plague a person in a new country. Where to stay, what the currency conversion is, whether to bow, kiss, or shake hands when introduced. But there is nothing as universal as food. Business or pleasure, short trip or long, seeing family or [...]

December 3rd Dinner Concert

November 13, 2009 5 comments
December 3rd Dinner Concert

Hear Ye Hear Ye Thursday, December 3rd 7:15 PM Dinner and Concert 2459 W. Wilson Apt#2 Featuring Singer Songwriters: James Farrell, Tom Fort, and Emily Clair Palmer You’re Invited Bring 10 Bucks to Cover Costs Why a Dinner Concert I love to feature local musician’s on the site.  I also like to bring you music [...]

Running Stanley’s

September 30, 2009 7 comments
Running Stanley’s

I got a chance to talk with the man in charge at Stanley’s Kitchen and Tap last week.  Jack Binyon has been involved with a number of bars and restaurants around the city.  He has been in the business since before the Jordan days in Chicago and his family has been selling food, beer and [...]

Oktoberfest in Milwaukee

September 21, 2009 1 comment
Oktoberfest in Milwaukee

Fred Brewer talks about Oktoberfest and his quest to bring it to Milwaukee. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Photo credit: Nate Falendysz and Augustus F. Sherman

Drinking Larry’s Beer (Mini-Podcast)

September 21, 2009 2 comments
Drinking Larry’s Beer (Mini-Podcast)

This is a selection from my interview with Larry Coble, house brewer for the Brew and Grow store. Larry is a home brewer a story teller and the perfect person to talk beer with.  Not only is he endlessly knowledgeable on the subject he’s also approachable easy going and loves to share the beer love. [...]

Beer Man, House Brewer, and Homebrewer: Larry Coble

September 21, 2009 1 comment
Beer Man, House Brewer, and Homebrewer: Larry Coble

Long time house brewer for Brew and Grow, Larry Coble talks homebrew, history and hops from a seat next to four five-gallon carboys of brewing beer.  We talk about how to drink, make and appreciate beer. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

Allow Me to Re-Introduce Myself

September 18, 2009 No comments yet
Allow Me to Re-Introduce Myself

This post will cover murderous crack addicts, benign Bouncers, and the ego of a graffiti writer, if you want to skip to the crack heads just play the audio. Good Morning this is Casey Brazeal for North and Clark. An interview blog that “holds a microphone to Chicagoans who don’t often make the media spotlight” [...]

Homemade Beer

September 18, 2009 No comments yet
Homemade Beer

If you can make tea, read a thermometer, or a book you can brew beer. When I first heard of homebrewing it was from a bio-chemist and I mistakenly assumed that it was some complex and technical undertaking that only the truely dedicated could bring off. Not so. Beer is almost as fun and easy [...]

Old Town Ale House

May 7, 2009 1 comment

If this blog is gonna be called North and Clark we ought to at least identify a place for somebody chilling on that corner to get a drink. Lincoln Park and Old Town have plenty of places to go, but if you can’t find your khaki shorts and Cubs hat and want to enjoy your [...]



North and Clark

By: Casey Brazeal