Booze Muse

Bells Beer is back in Chicago after a two-year distributor dispute. The popular local microbrew launched a stealth label, Kalamazoo, in response—it was always sold as “same as Bell’s”—but at least one liquor store clerk told us it didn’t compare. Bell’s Amber was chosen as the “best local microbrew” by Newcity’s Best of Chicago back in the early nineties, before Goose Island even existed as a brand.