Dovetail Brewery

Great beer, the smokey helles is amazing

Really solid brewery. Tried a several of their beers and liked them all! The Hefeweizen was especially good.

Great German style beer

Great spot if you’re looking for a brewery so purist in its ways, it might brew by the German standards of brewing. No gimmicks, just fresh, hoppy beer that still feels creative. I don’t know much about beer or brewing but I dig the way they play around with barrels. My old man used to get beers from the monks when he went to Germany on business; this is the quality beer I’d like to imagine he’d get. Too preoccupied with pinball to nab pics of the space or beer! Sorry mates.

Love 100% commitment to a theme. Classics brews are finely executed. Great first visit — will certainly be back again.

Super interesting beer selections, perfectly brewed and really nice service.

Exceptional beers in a cozy, slightly industrial space. A bit out of the way but worth the trek on the brown line. Crowd on a Friday was steady although it was raining, skewing older folks who seem to appreciate good lager. So many styles to choose from and some great to-go options in cans and bottles in the coolers up front. Didn’t know they brewed wild/sour beers. Had pours of all of their smoke beers, including my first ever Grodziskie. Saved their core beers for cans to-go. Also enjoyed their seasonal offerings, all stellar. I don’t think this brewery can make a bad beer. Some great swag and friendly staff working the bar who seem to know a lot about lager. The only downside is the prices. Although I’m willing to pay the premium as are many others and I understand lager takes more time and the ingredients are also more labor intensive in order to make authentic styles, it’s tough to see all of their beers at $9 for half liter pours or $10 for seasonal specialties…at the source nonetheless! I figured only double milkshake hemp cryo IPAs were $10/pint (or half liter). Also odd that a mixed four pack of Pilsner and Czech Dark Lager is $16 when a four pack of either is $15. Was there labor involved in mixing the packs of cans? Again, I understand there’s a price to pay for good lager, but it’s tough to spread the love of lager when it’s priced so highly. We’re approaching Switzerland price levels in craft beer. Anyway, this could be the best lager brewery in the country, and with Goldfinger not far away, Chicago really could be the lager capital of the US. Really wished I lived local to here. Bravo, Dovetail!

Spot on, fantastic German, Czech, and Belgian style biers! Great Great wild fermented biers also. SO MANY you can't try them all in one visit. Super convenient location to the Brown Line. Awasome patio out front I'd love to come back and visit in the warmer weather. The ONLY reason i didn't give them 5 stars is the SUPER UNCOMFORTABLE furniture in the place! Really terrible. Your 2 choices are very small (8 in diameter?) flat disc wood stools with a tiny, super low back that does nothing OR hard flat bottom and flat back wooden bench seats. SO terrible. Totally would have stayed longer but too painful. How do they think anyone would stay for more than a couple beers?? Please get new stools (and try them out yourself first!), or cusions or SOMETHING!! GREAT GREAT bier, horrible on comfort.

Rauchfest I hope is annual. Chicago is rauchbier!

Didn’t get to hang out very long because it turns out they stopped allowing dogs in the tap room. I guess there was an incident. But the one beer I got to enjoy was delicious and the guy behind the bar was very nice about letting me know about the dog policy.