Pride of the Fox River and St. Charles, Illinois, Riverlands Brewing is approaching six years with a refreshed love of their own lagers, thanks to their U.S. Beer Open Championship gold-winning pilsner, Kayak. We sit down with co-founder and head brewer Eric Bramwell along with assistant brewer Brianna Levi to chat all things Riverlands - not limited to their horizontal tanks. Eric and Bri tell their stories about influential local brewers that helped them learn how to move from homebrewers to the commercial space and what inspires them to play with different ingredients and endlessly tinker with recipes. Also, there are stories about unexpected collaboration partners, lager advice from the experts, secret burrito accounting, amazing shark facts, and majestic heads of hair - all while we sip through a stellar lineup of beers.

Beers Sampled

Tri-City Black (Session Stout)

Kayak Pils (German-style Pilsner)

Dean Street (Hazy IPA)

All Night Revival (DDH Hazy DIPA) - Collaboration w/ Toppling Goliath

Parallel Rivers (Hazy DIPA) - Collaboration w/ Hop Butcher

Orbital Velocity (Chocolate Peanut Butter Imperial Stout)

Splitting Rivers (Imperial Stout aged in bourbon barrels w/ wild Thai bananas and cinnamon) - Collaboration w/ Whiskey Hill

Brothers in Barleywine (Bourbon barrel-aged barleywine) - Collaboration w/ Brothership