- Courtesy of Penrose Brewing
- It’s a good thing Penrose gave me some photos, because when it’s cloudy this time of year my apartment never gets light enough for a decent shot.
Penrose Brewing‘s bottle rollout, which began this summer with four-packs of P-2 and Proto Gradus, has been a little spotty so far—not that I’ve been keeping a logbook, but it feels like months since I’ve seen any of their product in my neighborhood snooty-beer stores. Thankfully the young Geneva brewery has addressed the trouble, making a big push onto retail shelves shortly before Thanksgiving with two new-to-bottles beers—a Belgian-style white IPA called Desirous and a Belgian-style IPA called Fractal, which might be my favorite regular-rotation offering from Penrose to date.
- Courtesy of Penrose Brewing
- That’s rinse water on those bottles of Fractal, not condensation. The Penrose folks aren’t crazy enough to heat their brewery like that.
Bottles of Penrose’s Devoir saison will follow Fractal and Desirous onto shelves beginning Mon 12/1, followed in a few weeks by the return of P-2 Belgian-style pale—at which point the brewery will have more than doubled the number of beers it’s distributed at retail. (Full disclosure: Penrose delivered me a four-pack of Fractal for free. But we both already knew I liked it, because I’d tried it at the tap room in early October.) When the weather finally warms up again, Proto Gradus—the Belgian-inspired single that I declared “Best New Summer Session Beer” in this year’s Best of Chicago issue—will come back too.
