Welcome to the Chicago Beer Pass: Your ticket to all the great beer events happening in and around Chicago. This week on Chicago Beer Pass, Brad Chmielewski and Nik White reach into the cellar and grab a bottle of the 2010 Heartwood Symposium Ale. Then they dive into what they did this past week and Brad and Nik chat about their visits to Empirical Brewing and Breakroom. Coming up this weekend on Friday at 6:00 PM in Romeoville at Metal Monkey Brewing, Chicago pizza boss will be cooking up their amazing food in the parking lot. Then on Saturday, February 13th beginning at noon Local Option will be offering ten varieties of Jester King Brewery beers for on site consumption. Also, on next Wednesday the 17th is a beer & gin dinner! Smylie Brothers will be hosting a buffet-style beer dinner with food from Chef Grant and beers crafted by Brewmaster Brad Pulver. All that and more on this weeks episode of Chicago Beer Pass! Cheers! Having issues listening to the audio? Try the MP3 (47.1 MB) or subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or Stitcher.