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That other brewery posting cat pictures is ripping us off. You can’t drink fancy beer here, but you can drink fancy beer at @OCMousetrap .

Chicago
Joined October 2012
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
3 months
It’s time for a story we’ve wanted to share since it began over a month ago, but didn’t want to disturb our newest resident with what would have been an overwhelming amount of newfound celebrity. Meet Sprinkles, the duck who has been living in our back patio bourbon barrel.
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
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Remember it. Write it down. Take a picture. We don’t give a fuck.
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2024 UltraMaga
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@OffcolorBrewing @ocmousetrap We will remember this. You jumped on the wrong bandwagon. Dont come crying later.
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Off Color Brewing
3 years
No reason to wait until the 3rd. Starting tomorrow, December 22nd, proof of vaccination will be required to drink on-premise at @ocmousetrap .
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
4 years
We have sweet new branded cat carriers. Whoops. We meant can carriers. No. That’s not true. We meant cat carriers.
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Off Color Brewing
5 years
Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Hyperventilating. We made bodega cats. Oh my god 😻😻😻
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Bodega Cats
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
3 years
Feels like an appropriate day to announce this is coming soon.
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Off Color Brewing
7 years
Happy #NationalCatDay to all of our feline friends!
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
2 years
Here’s an early look at what’s next in the “Beer for” series: Beer for Dealing with Your Family. So it’s gotta be strong. Malt liquor.. 12%. Yep. That’ll work. But before you’re forced to sit next to that weird, zealot uncle during the holidays, a huge reminder to VOTE tomorrow.
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
1 year
Yesterday we were a brewery. Today we’re a brewery that’s been around a decade. That feels like an accomplishment. And obviously we couldn’t have done it without all of your support and trust in this kind of weird Chicago brewery trying to make a little impact in the big city.
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
3 years
SURPRISING ANNOUNCEMENT TIME: Over 8 years and 1,000 batches later, we’re trying something new. Next up in the Beer for series is “Beer for Lounging” a classic single hop American Pale Ale brewed with whole cone Cascade hops.
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Off Color Brewing
3 months
The update everyone was looking for!! Sprinkles and family is floating around behind the taproom right now. All ten eggs hatched 🦆 ❤️
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Off Color Brewing
6 years
Our box inspector takes quality control very seriously.
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Off Color Brewing
6 years
Our spokesmeowdel walked off the House Lion photoshoot this morning. We had to call in a replacement. Always expect something unexpected on release day.
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Off Color Brewing
4 years
With today’s announcement of a shift back to limited indoor dining in Chicago, we have no current plans of re-opening for indoor service as restrictions are rolled back. At this point, we don’t anticipate serving indoors until we are able to have a fully vaccinated staff.
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Off Color Brewing
7 years
Our thoughts are with @BitchestheCat , our unofficial spokescat & beloved friend. She's currently in the ER on O2 but fighting. She's a lion.
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Off Color Brewing
3 years
#caturday is for lounging.
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Off Color Brewing
7 years
So majestic. We miss you, @BitchestheCat . Your memory lives on. 🙌🐱
@BitchestheCat
A Cat Named Bitches
7 years
In honor of @OffcolorBrewing releasing Barrel Aged Growl today, we’ll #ThrowbackThursday to when Bitches was on the original Growl carrier.
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Off Color Brewing
3 years
Dear @LilNasX , Where can we send you a case when this comes out? We thought you might dig it.
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Off Color Brewing
1 year
Every year, we like to do a shirt specifically for the Great Taste of the Midwest. We think you’re gonna enjoy this year’s art 😂
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
6 years
This one is for all indoor cats out there, ruling over their cardboard box kingdoms. Coming soon...
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Off Color Brewing
3 years
We have a new keeper of the barrels this #caturday . Unfortunately this is just a temporary pawsition.
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
3 months
And then this morning Sprinkles and family had left the nest, leaving only the successful remnants of a new family birthed. We hope to see our little duck family floating around the river over the next few weeks as the ducklings get their wing strength. And that’s our story.
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
4 years
We’ve seen four cats in four Off Color boxes, but five kittens in one Off Color box? This will be the cutest thing you see today. #beercat 📸: Instagram User/couchsurfingkittens
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
5 years
To best convey the processes involved and flavors in our beers, we’re adding emblems to many offerings that will inform beer drinkers on a range of factors such as fermentation type, fermentation vessel, etc., as well as serve as signifiers for what flavor profiles to expect.
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
4 years
Seven years in. No IPAs. A lot of people told us that wouldn’t be possible. It wasn’t easy. But it was possible.
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Peter DiCamillo
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@JustinYounger @OffcolorBrewing is a favorite of mine because they have said they will never brew an ipa, and they brew some fine Belgians .
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Off Color Brewing
7 years
We’re brewing a cat beer at @ocmousetrap today! This one is for all the House Lions sitting in their cardboard thrones.
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
9 months
A truly sad day for the Chicago beer community. Our friends. Our mentors. Our chosen family. The place where the dream of our very own brewery was hatched. Without Metro, there would be no Off Color. Get over there while you still can and show their incredible team some support.
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Off Color Brewing
4 years
For the seventy-third day in a row, we’re open for online orders and pickups. Same hours as the previous 72 days. During that time we haven’t shared enough picture of cats in beer boxes. We apawlogize for that.
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Off Color Brewing
3 years
Little dog on the brew deck wishes you a great week.
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Off Color Brewing
1 year
Da Capybearas.
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Off Color Brewing
1 year
Da Capybearas.
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
1 year
NEW BEER(S) ALERT: Two New Field Museum and Off Color Brewing Collaboration Beers! Inspired by a partnership with @FieldMuseum , and its new exhibition “First Kings of Europe” we are introducing two new beers into the “Beer for” series.
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
3 years
And all those responses were also valid ways to bring a vaccination card. Remembering it. Writing it down (a copy). Or a picture.
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
3 years
It’s pretty cool that other breweries are making “Beer for” beers after never having done so before. Wait. It’s not really cool at all. At least thank us when you take our idea 🤷‍♂️
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
3 months
Moar ducklings!! 🦆 🦆 🦆 🦆 🦆 🦆 🦆 🦆 🦆 🦆
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
4 years
So. Three months ago, we ordered these black on black lightweight hoodies, which were delayed by the coronavirus crisis. As they finally arrive this weekend, we’ve decided to donate 100% of the proceeds from the sales of this hoodie to Black Lives Matter Chicago.
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
2 months
This was always bound to happen. Coming soon. Keep an eye on our social media for release details.
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Off Color Brewing
4 years
Crap. We better shut down.
@Artifact_Scotty
Scotty
4 years
Saison doesn’t sell, period. It can work if you are a ultra botique brewery or don’t like sellin beer to pay your bills
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
7 years
From the entire Off Color gang, Meowy Catsmas!
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Off Color Brewing
3 years
There’s #catboxsunday vibes. And then there’s hairless one-eyed #catboxsunday vibes. This is the latter clearly.
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
4 years
What’s your best IPA? A saison.
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Off Color Brewing
3 years
Couple of fosters kittens in their first off color box. Life is looking up. Thanks for sharing @photocatkate ! #beerkitten
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
2 years
For those who have been wondering, next up in the “Beer for” series is Beer for the Top Shelf, a Vienna Lager with maple syrup. Look for this one to drop in early to mid-September.
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
7 years
@ocmousetrap @lincolnparkzoo They were! So once we were able to get @ChicagoErin out of it, we brought it over. Now the big cats have a big box (the one we gave them 😻) and they love it!! This may be the best thing we’ve ever been involved with. 📦🦁 Photos via LP Zoo. Except the one of Erin. We took that.
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
2 years
Cat in beer box twitter is the best twitter and the only twitter that will survive.
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Off Color Brewing
3 years
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Off Color Brewing
8 months
It’s bittersweet for sure, but we’re touched to be able to keep a small part of @MetroBrewing alive at @ocmousetrap as their amazing Good Things Vending machine arrived today. In honor of our friends, the Metro-inspired artwork will remain and we promise to give it a loving home.
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
2 years
Beer for Dealing with Your Family is here! Our winter warmer is meant to be enjoyed with loved ones, or tolerated ones, this holiday season. Fragrant plum, ripe strawberries, and rose petals on the nose, while an initial nip of booze fades & transforms into sweet grape & cherry.
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
5 years
Wow. Our new year round offering Very, Very Far just won Gold at #GABF . This is a beer we’re really proud of and we’re honored that people agree. Get first crack at the cans at Emporium Logan Square Monday.
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
2 years
People have asked for a running inspired beer and we did our personal best to brew this one up. Beerathon, an extra fancy light beer with watermelon and salt, pairs well with the cool down and clocks in at an appropriate 2.62%. We’re aiming for a Chicago marathon weekend release.
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
2 years
One really humbling thing for us as a brewery is when people choose to make us part of their most significant life events. A friend of the brewery reached out to our illustrator Nikki and commissioned her to create an Off Color critter themed “save the date” card…
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Off Color Brewing
3 years
Cats prefer pilsner.
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Off Color Brewing
5 years
Off Color Cans. Coming Soon.
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Off Color Brewing
3 months
When we went out to check on her we were met by broken shells and a new baby. Just in time for Mother’s Day Weekend! We left her space as the little ones continued hatching…
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
2 years
If you’ve been waiting for a beer label with boxing meerkats, you’re gonna be happy. If you’re a fan of low ABV beers, you’ll also gonna be happy. Next up in the “Beer for” series is Beer for Lightweights, an extra fancy light beer inspired by Belgian table beers.
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
6 years
Procatstination is back! A wild ale originally brewed with @perennialbeer and @sideprojectbrew to support the Lions, Tigers, and Beers benefit at Northdown. Northdown is no more, but the spirit of the day remains. On draft & to-go when Mousetrap opens. Only 35 cases available.
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
7 years
Look for Growl to drop at the Mousetrap this week. Our big ole’ Quadruple will be available on draft and to-go in 4-packs (with carriers featuring a catmeo from one of our favorite felines). 😻🍺
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
6 years
Wild doesn’t mean sour...
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
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This BEER is quite specifically for you, Chicago. Beer for Hot Dogs. This light, clear, and crisp beer will cut right through the rich, fattiness of a pure beef Chicago Style hot dog with all the trimmings. And don’t forget. No ‘cats’-up!
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
6 years
Then two of them got high on catnip and got sassy with the photogs.
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
3 years
We promised a TikTok. It’s been posted. We’ll share it here as proof 😂 We figured we’d stay on brand for our first one! Beer Marketing 101: Cat Herding
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
3 months
And then came saison day. Our busiest day of the year. We had to protect sprinkles, so we built a wall of cacti around her barrel kingdom.
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
9 months
Who’s ready for a 12% malt liquor?
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Off Color Brewing
4 years
What’s better than a coke? Obviously a cherry coke. Cherry Beer for Pizza. Coming soon...
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
7 years
We stand with our neighbors 🌲🌳
@patagonia
Patagonia
7 years
This is the largest elimination of protected land in American history. Take Action: #BearsEars
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Off Color Brewing
8 months
Meowy Catsmas from the entire Off Color gang.
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Off Color Brewing
7 years
Good grief. This is why you can’t play football with cats. They’ll Charlie Brown you every time. #Superbowl
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
3 months
She chose a really nice bourbon barrel on the back patio along the river, which we then surrounded by other bourbon barrels to give her a bit of a moat around her new nest.
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
4 years
We’re humbled by today’s Gold medal for our Rum Barrel Aged Sun Also Rises collab with @JackieosBrewery at @FOBABofficial . This one was for the polydactyl cats.
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
8 months
Thank you. For being you. Best friends forever.
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Off Color Brewing
7 years
Passing a shitty tax bill = we brew more Class War.
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
4 years
This recent beer controversy was very confusing for us. We love Allagash Brewing more than beer itself, but we’ve also made a beer called Screw You, @Jeremy_Danner 😂
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
3 months
And then there were a lot of eggs. And a very proud mother. Thus began weeks of incubation.
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
3 months
During this time away from the nest, she would meet up with her partner and catch up before he’d walk her back to the barrel, where she’d keep building out for her future incubation period.
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
2 years
We hinted at it. So… next up in the “Beer for” series is Beer for Fantasy, a wit beer with blood orange and dragon fruit. Here’s a sneak preview of the label art, which is some of our favorite ever. Swing back throug our social media channels next week for release details.
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Off Color Brewing
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Off Color Brewing
5 years
From the entire Off Color gang, Meowy Catsmas!
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
3 months
but we did build her a little ramp for them to descend as well as some soft landing spots for the ducklings to jump down from if they chose (barrels are surrounded bu concrete).
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
6 years
The cat says that you should go to @ocmousetrap today to try April Rain, our new wild ale with sudachi and white tea. Trust us. You better listen to the cat. #sudachi #chicagobeer
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
1 year
We got new half pint glasses for the taproom. The coolest part is definitely the engraved mouse nucleation point. These will not be available online. Only for purchase for those who come to Chicago to visit our humble little taproom @ocmousetrap .
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
3 years
So we’re guessing the no reading books in bars guy wouldn’t support a Beer for Book Clubs 😂
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Off Color Brewing
2 years
Crap. Just realized two years late that we should have named Beer for Golf, Beer fore Golf.
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Off Color Brewing
8 months
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, well, maybe a mouse.
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Off Color Brewing
1 year
Your reminder if you buy a case of cans at Mousetrap, they come with a free cat bed.
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
7 months
2024 New Years resolution. More otters.
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
3 years
Happy #NationalCatDay to all the House Lions out there ruling over their cardboard kingdoms.
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Off Color Brewing
6 years
Meowy Catsmas and Happy Howlidays from the Off Color gang!! #meowycatmas #happyhowlidays
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Off Color Brewing
8 months
Best thing that ever happened to us on al gore’s internet.
@Bodegacats_
Bodega Cats
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
1 month
ONE WEEK FROM TONIGHT! Mark your calendars!! Beer for Hot Dogs Keep the Glass Night is coming up at @ocmousetrap on Monday, July 15th from 5pm-10pm with a very special guest. Yes it’s @Superdawg .
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
5 years
You wanted a t-shirt, we made you a t-shirt. “Wild Does Not Mean Sour” shirts are now available for pre-order online. Grab yours through the link. Shirts will ship the first week of June. #themoreyouknow #somehillsyoudieon
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Off Color Brewing
1 year
Not Beer koozies available tomorrow with Beer for Bags 4pk purchases.
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
4 years
Support your local breweries. All of them. The thriving local beer community we’ve collectively built is at risk if you don’t. It would be devastating if we lose even one more brewery this winter.
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
4 years
It’s good to know people still like the idea of stouts without a bunch of stuff in them.
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
2 years
Current draft list. 1 gose 1 Pilsner 1 scotch ale 1 dark lager 1 saison 1 biere de miel 1 pale ale 1 Flemish blonde 1 kolsch 1 imperial stout 1 chocolate ale 1 kriek 1 cream ale 1 wild dopplebock 2 wine barrel aged wild ales How are we doing?
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
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Since it’s #nationalhotdogday we thought it would be appropriate to announce a project we’re working on. Beer for Superdawg, a Chicago-Style Pilsner, should be available at @SuperdawgWheel & @ocmousetrap in the next few weeks. Keep an eye on our social media for a release date.
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
6 years
Think a three cat photoshoot is easy? Check out the b-roll. One cat went to sleep.
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@OffcolorBrewing
Off Color Brewing
4 years
Crap. We forgot. Apparently we turned seven today. So yay!! Thanks for all your support.
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Off Color Brewing
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She braved rain storms. Like a champ. Not that she didn’t appreciate the little rain roof we built her one day.
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