Because you're reading a beer column, you probably already know that in 2013 Temperance became the first craft brewery in Evanston's history (the town was dry from 1858 till 1972). Before I started working on this post, I'd had a couple of Temperance beers, but I didn't write about them—not when Temperance kegs started showing up in Chicago bars in October, and not when Temperance opened its tap room in December.…
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