Goose Island Beer Co. to move Lincoln Park brewpub to Salt Shed
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Goose Island Beer Co. is moving its original Lincoln Park brewpub to the new Salt Shed music venue along the Chicago River.
The new location in the former Morton Salt shed at Elston and Magnolia avenues is just across the river from the brewery's namesake, Goose Island.
The Goose Island Beer Company was founded by John Hall in 1988, as one of the first small breweries in the Midwest. The Lincoln Park brewery and brewpub opened that year in an old industrial complex at 1800 N. Clybourn Ave., and became an anchor of the 1800 Clybourn mall. The mall also housed the Remains Theatre stage company, Muddler's Pool Room, the ArtGolf indoor miniature golf course, and an assortment of specialty and boutique stores and restaurants.
The mall closed in 1994 and most of it was demolished, but the Goose Island brewpub remained as a new shopping center anchored by a Bed, Bath and Beyond store rose around it. A Goose Island brewery and taproom at 1800 W. Fulton St. went on to open in 1995.
Goose Island also operates the Barrel House space for private events at 603 N. Sacramento Blvd. on the city's West Side, where the brewery also ages its Bourbon County Brand Stout. International Goose Island brewpub locations have also opened over the past several years.
Goose Island operated a second brewpub at 3535 N. Clark St. just south of Wrigley Field from 1999 until 2015. The building where it was located has since been torn down for a new development.
The Clybourn Avenue brewpub nearly closed in 2008, on account of rising rents in the neighborhood. But last-minute negotiations with the landlord kept it open. The brewpub nearly closed again in 2014, but that too was averted.
The bar notes that the Clybourn Avenue location is the longest continuously operating craft brewery in Chicago.
Goose Island was sold to Anheuser-Busch InBev in 2011.
You still have time to enjoy the original Clybourn Avenue location where the company got its start. The move isn't anticipated until the end of next year.
