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Home of the World’s Best Pilsner

Horse Thief Hollow captures Gold Medal at 2023 World Beer Cup

In our 10th year of brewing on Chicago’s South side, we are humbled to bring home the Gold for Little Wing American Pilsner, one of our flagship beers.

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Hey, Good Looking

Our beer has the same great taste, with a brand new look

Neil and his team spent months working on the new design for our four flagship beers at HTH: Little Wing Pilsner, Spoonful Hazy IPA, Boogie Chillen’ Grapefruit Pale Ale, and Delta Hurricane Imperial Milk Stout. The development process involved an intensive study & fusion of illustration, typography, colors & copywriting. (Who knew Neil could write haiku?!) We’re incredibly proud of the results and invite you to take home a 4-pack of your favorite style next time you visit HTH.

Farm to Table, Southside Style

Neil Byers collaborates with local high school to raise Angus beef for his kitchen

Innovative food sourcing is what happens when a brewpub is run by an outdoorsman, hunter, and nature lover, as well as a chef and brewer. HTH is proud to raise our own Angus steer to provide fresh beef for our customers to enjoy. Our cows grow to market weight on a diet of spent brewers’ grain and fresh grass about a mile away from us, at the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences.

Feathers in our cap

Horse Thief Hollow has captured 9 medals and counting in prestigious beer competitions

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We brew great beer and have the bling to prove it. Our Little Wing Pilsner is a multi-award winner! It won Gold in the 2023 World Beer Cup, known as the Olympics of beer. And it snagged a Bronze Medal in the 2020 Great American Beer Festival. Our Belgian Tripel Wrenly Rose won Gold at the Festival of Wood & Barrel-Aged Beer. We also brought home the Gold in the 2018 World Beer Cup and a Silver Medal in the 2017 Great American Beer Festival for our French farmhouse ale Bière de Voleur, or Thief’s Beer. In 2016, we earned Bronze in the Great American Beer Festival for our Prunckle’s Dunkel, a dark German lager with nutty malted sweetness. We also snagged first place in the 2016 Festival of Barrel Aged Beers for a Bavarian wheat beer called Hilltop Weizenbock. The 2014 World Beer Cup awarded us a Silver Medal for our Cheval Deux, a fall seasonal French brown ale infused with sweet potato. And we earned a Bronze for our signature 18th Rebellion Kolsch Ale, a Zwickelbier, at the 2014 GABF.

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Jake and Neil celebrate winning a gold medal for Wrenly Rose at the 2020 Festival of Wood and Barrel-Aged Beer

On Tap

We offer a rotating selection of craft beers brewed in house by Jake Nelson. You’re welcome to order growlers or cans to go.

Little Wing

16 oz. pint ~ 6; 64 oz. growler ~ 16

Our award-winning American Pilsner ~ 5.2% ABV

Hefewestern

14 oz Weizen glass ~ 7; 64 oz growler ~ 20

Hefeweizen, a German wheat beer brewed with a distinct yeast to give notes of banana and clove on a medium bodied beer that is perfect for spring! ~ 5.2% ABV

Pink Pom Pom

14 oz weizen glass ~ 8; 64 oz growler ~ 23

Our spring seasonal Hefeweizen with pomegranate juice added to make this a lightly sweet and and highly refreshing wheat beer. 5.1 % ABV

Space Face

16 oz pint ~ 7; 64 oz growler ~ 20

Our Kolsch-inspired ale. This batch features a light dry-hop with Loral hops leading a subtle citrus and floral note on top of the crisp kolsch base beer. ~ 5.3% ABV

Green Beret

16 oz pint ~ 7; 64 oz growler ~ 20

English Brown Ale with Pistachio flavor. Malty and biscuity flavors are the foundation that gets layered with nutty and sweet notes of pistachio, combining to make flavors reminiscent of pistachio cake, toasted almonds, and toffee. 5.1% ABV

Boogie Chillen'

16 oz pint ~ 7; 64 oz growler ~ 20

Grapefruit Pale Ale with Citra and Mosaic hops ~ 5.5% ABV

Kitchen Sink

16 oz pint ~ 6; 64 oz growler ~ 18

Classic American Pale Ale with a caramel malt backbone featuring a load of hops with Cascade at the forefront. ~ 5.3% ABV

Spoonful

16 oz. pint ~ 7; 64 oz. growler ~ 22

Double Dry Hopped Hazy IPA with Mosaic and Citra Hops ~ 6.5% ABV

Front Flips

14 oz Teku glass ~ 8; 64 oz growler ~ 28

Mixed-culture Farmhouse Ale aged in Pinot Noir barrels ~ 6.9% ABV

Delta Hurricane

12 oz snifter ~ 6; 64 oz growler ~ 22

Chicory Coffee Milk Stout inspired by the New Orleans tradition. ~ 8% ABV