Hopleaf Beer Menu, Andersonville, Chicago

Leffe Blonde :: Hopleaf, Andersonville, Chicago

Delirium Tremens :: Hopleaf, Andersonville, Chicago

Wostyntje Torhouts Mustaard Bier :: Hopleaf, Andersonville, Chicago

Kwak :: Hopleaf, Andersonville, Chicago

Brooklyn Brewery Black Chocolate Stout :: Hopleaf, Andersonville, Chicago

If there’s one thing I learned from our night out at Hopleaf it’s that mussels do not make a good drinking base. Combined with the fact that we were drinking premium beers with high alcohol contents, like starting at 5% and going all the way up to 12%. We all wanted to try all different beers on the menu, but I knew that as I went, I’d never remember what I had, so I took a photo of each beer. I only had 5 beers, but that was enough to call it quits for me! Too bad we didn’t go home after Hopleaf, because that would have been the really smart thing to do. I guess we’re not smart people when we’re drunk. More on that coming up…

These are the beers I had:

• Leffe Blonde (draft, 6.6%)
• Delirium Tremens (draft, 9%)
• Wostyntje Torhouts Mustaard Bier (draft, 7%)*
• Kwak (draft, 8%)**
• Brooklyn Brewery’s Black Chocolate Stout (bottle, 10.1%)

The beer list at Hopleaf is so astoundingly extensive. There are two menu pages of draft beers and about 10 pages of bottle beers. And it changes, so I think you could go there 1,000 times and never try all of the beer at Hopleaf.

* I thought this is the beer I ordered and I remember the glass had a few different beer names on it and I took a photo of the side of the glass that had the name of the beer I ordered, but when I looked online all accounts say this beer is literally made from mustard seed and it has a golden color.. which the beer I drank really did not. So, I don’t know what it really was!
** I thought I ordered Kwak because I just wanted to say “kwak,” but online it says this beer is served in this unique glass. And I did see people drinking out of that kind of glass, so I know they had it. . .. unless they ran out and used a regular glass for me, I don’t know. Maybe I didn’t have Kwak. Lesson #2, it’s hard to keep track of what you’re drinking during a long, fun, night out.