Illinois Brews @ Bowes Creek 2025
September 6, 2025 @ 4:00PM — 8:00PM Central Time (US & Canada) Add to Calendar
Bowes Creek Country Club: 1250 Bowes Creek Blvd Elgin, IL 60124 Get Directions
Join us for the beer tasting event of the season!
With over 20 participating breweries (and counting!), Illinois Brews is the can’t-miss tasting event of the summer.
General admission tickets will be available at the door at 4 p.m (but they'll cost more, and we might sell out!!)
Saturday, September 6, 2025
3 p.m. - Early entrance for VIP ticket-holders
4 p.m. - 8 p.m. - General admission
Our goal is to raise $40,000 through sponsorships and ticket sales, and we invite you to partner with us to support local youth who are most in need. All monies raised go directly to providing access to recreational programs and services for Elgin children who otherwise could not participate.
Tickets include craft and homebrew samplings, snacks, and a commemorative mug and t-shirt.
Illinois Brews will be serving up more than beer, including specialty pours for VIP ticket holders, as well as hard seltzers, special bourbons, fine spirits, and non-alcoholic beer options for General Admission ticket holders. Our ever-popular raffle will return, with prizes including craft beers, wine baskets, and bourbon, featuring several rare bourbons. Tasty bites will be available from Johnny's Supper Club.
College football fan? Don't worry, you don't have to miss the big game: Illinois Brews will have a tailgate section, so you can catch all the action AND taste the best beers around!
EXCLUSIVE for VIP Ticket Holders:
Whiskey Acres: Award-winning 7 Year Bourbon (one of the Top 100 Bourbons in the USA)
More Brewing: Their latest Henna and a few specialty bottles
Pollyanna: Key Lime Lite Thinking
Allure: Fruited Sour Lemonade
Obscurity: Bold Crazy Spur Loco Blonde Ale with Coffee
Penrose: Huskie Seltz Up (NIU-Inspired) Cherry Limeade and Oktofest
Otter Creek: Noah’s Mill Bourbon, Adictivo Whiskey, Maker’s 46 Cask Strength, Mozart Pumpkin Liqueur, and Aguasol Reposado
We're buzzing to announce these participating breweries:
Whiskey Acres Distilling Co. will be pouring Bottled in Bond Bourbon, Bottled in Bond Rye, and Seven Year Bourbon.
More Brewing Company will be pouring Oktoberfest and Moreover.
Otter Creek Wine & Spirits will be pouring various gins, vodkas, and other spirits as well as 191 Vodka Spirits and Surfside Seltzers.
Silverado Home Brew Club will be pouring a variety of home brews.
Sew Hop'd will be pouring Alt 140, Sentinel Lager, and Oktoberfest.
Energy City Brewing will be pouring Cherry Cobbler and Pineapple Coconut Heavily Fruited Berliner Weisse beers.
Penrose Brewing Company will be pouring Looper (an American IPA) and Lemon Seltz-Up.
Crystal Lake Brewing Company will be pouring Beach Blonde, a German-styled Larger and Too Much Cologne.
Pollyanna Brewing Company will be pouring Summerly, a raspberry wheat ale, and In the Cards, a hazy pale ale.
Obscurity will be pouring a berry rosé sweet cider, a Pacific Island pop-inspired ale, and Tow City.
Coastal Cocktails will be pouring a Orange Crush vodka seltzer as well as a Blackberry Bramble gin seltzer.
Mighty Swell Spiked Seltzer will be pouring Keep It Weird, a spiked seltzer, along with a variety pack.
Corona will be pouring Corona Sunbrew, Modelo Oro, and Pacifico.
Retro Brews will be pouring Pabst Blue Ribbon and Old Style.
HopWtr will be pouring HopWtr, a sparkling non-alcoholic hop water.
Forbidden Root will be pouring Sprinkles Required Sour IPA, Cosmic Trust Fall Imperial IPA, and 1+1 Smash.
Revolution Brewing will be pouring Fist City and Freedom of Assembly.
Begyle Brewery will be pouring Hophazardly.
Noon Whistle will be pouring DAA Gummy, Cosmo Pale Ale, and Hop Prism Blue IPA.
Brewhouse 1220 will be pouring Apple Ale and Pecan Brown Ale.
Alter Brewing will be pouring Ambigram and Alterado.
Lena Brewing Company will be pouring Oktoberfest and 38 Degree Hefeweizen.
Monaco Cocktails will be pouring Bombtails, Bikini Island, Kentucky Coffee, and Monaco.
Athletic Brewing will be pouring a variety of non-alcoholic brews.
Brother Chimp Brewing will be pouring Haka and Ludwig.
Half Acre will be pouring Slow Melt and Largertown.
Half Day will be pouring Thunder Peel and Oktoberfest.
Two Brothers will be pouring Atom Smasher, Domaine Dupage, and Prairie Path.
Dovetail Brewing will be pouring Kolsch and Hefeweizen.
Dukes Northwood will be pouring Speckled Calf.
Happy Dad will be pouring a variety of flavors.
Industry Ales will be pouring Oktoberfest and Out of Focus IPA.
Squire Ale House will be pouring Spotted Lion.
Long Drink will be pouring a variety of flavors.
Pipeworks Brewing will be pouring a Ninja vs. Unicorn Double IPA 8%, Infinite Citra - Citra Hopped IPA 7.3%, Horchata - Horchata Inspired Ale 7%, and Pumpkin Spice Latte - Oat Ale 6.6%.
Moors Brewing
PS. Duke's Northwoods and Squire Ale House will be hosting a taste-off to see which beer our guests like best!
Stay tuned as we update our list!
Thank you for your generosity and dedication to this great cause. The Foundation Board and the many at-risk youth who enjoy our programs are grateful for your past, present, and future support.
Cheers to beers for a great cause!
Questions? Email jen.hermonson@elginil.gov or call 847-931-6129!