Piping Plover Pale Ale is back! After a brief hiatus, this unique brew is back for a third, limited time release.
This top-flight ale, is a tribute to the beloved Piping Plovers Monty, Rose, Imani, and the many others that have continued to call Chicago’s shores home since their triumphant return in 2019. Brewed with the highest-quality El Dorado hops and real cactus pear juice, this unique brew’s flavor is a nod to the Eastern Prickly Pear Cactus, a native plant found throughout the dunes where these plovers live.
Where: Imperial Oak Brewing - Brookfield
9526 Ogden Avenue, Brookfield, IL 60513
When: Sunday, December 17 - 12pm to 8pm
Piping Plover Pale Ale will be available for purchase in 4-packs of cans and on tap and a limited number of glasses will be available as well. While supplies last! Previous releases sold out on the same day.
Don’t have other plans that day? Consider joining us for the Lisle-Arboretum Christmas Bird Count or for the after-count pizza and trivia party from 6pm-8pm. Both are free and open to all but rsvp is required.
A percentage of proceeds from the sale of Piping Plover Pale Ale will go to Chicago Ornithological Society's conservation efforts aimed at protecting and restoring the habitats that plovers and the more than 300 other bird species found in Chicago need to survive and thrive.
Photo: Ann Gunkel
Imperial Oak Brewing is a brewery that puts the beer first. Its focus is on imperial strength and barrel-aged brews, and they offer an ever-changing variety of styles to satisfy a wide range of tastes.
Visit www.imperialoakbrewing.com to learn more.
Artwork and label courtesy of designer/illustrator Bill Fogarty.
Visit www.blackcoffeepictures.com to learn more.
Montrose Point Dunes in Chicago have been host to endangered Piping Plovers every summer since 2019 after an almost 70 year absence from Chicago. Despite their newfound home being the busiest beach in the busiest city on the Great Lakes, these birds have defied the odds and returned year after year to one of the best dune habitats remaining in Chicago. Piping Plover Pale Ale is just the latest in a long line of creations they’ve inspired from artwork, to comics, to songs, and films, in honor of these survivors’ determination to bring their species back from the brink. This brew is flavored with Prickly Pear, a diminutive cactus native to and found throughout the dunes where these plovers live.
Visit www.chicagopipingplovers.org to learn more.