5 Rabbit Cervecería
41°45′29″N 87°46′48″W / 41.7579196°N 87.7799526°W
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| Location | Bedford Park, Illinois |
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| Opened | 2011 |
| Annual production volume | 6,000–8,000 US beer barrels (7,000–9,400 hL) in 2012[1] |
| Website | 5rabbitbrewery.com |
5 Rabbit Cervecería is a brewery in Bedford Park, Illinois United States, that was founded in 2011 and opened in 2012.[2][3][4][5] It is "the first Latin-themed craft brewery in the United States".[6] Many of the beers are brewed with ingredients inspired by Hispanic cuisine and culture.[7] The name of the brewery is a reference to the Aztec deity Macuiltochtli.[8]
History
[edit]5 Rabbit Cervecería was founded in 2011 by Andrés Araya and Isaac Showaki, along with minority investor Randy Mosher who created the recipes for the beer. Originally the beer was contract brewed at Argus Brewery.[2][3] 5 Rabbit opened their own brewery in Bedford Park in 2012.[9][10] Showaki left the company in 2013 [11] and later founded Octopi Brewing in Waunakee, Wisconsin.[12] The brewery added an on-site taproom in 2014.[13] Helping Araya run 5 Rabbit is his wife and brewery co-owner Mila Ramirez,[14] with Mosher serving as creative director.
Beers
[edit]5 Rabbit Cervecería produces a number of different beers. Some of them are available year-round, some are seasonal, and some are one-offs.[15][16][17][18] They once brewed a beer that included chapulines (grasshoppers) as an ingredient.[19]
| Name | Style | ABV % | IBU | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Rabbit | Golden ale | 5.3 | 32 | Year-round |
| 5 Vulture | Oaxacan-style dark ale | 6.4 | 35 | Year-round |
| 5 Lizard | Latin-style witbier | 4.3 | 20 | Year-round |
| 5 Grass | Hoppy ale | 6.4 | 60 | Year-round |
| Vida y Muerte | Harvest ale | 6.3 | 24 | Seasonal (Fall) |
| Huitzi | Midwinter ale | 8.5 | 22 | Seasonal (Winter) |
| Paletas (various fruit versions) | Fruit beer | 3.5 | Seasonal (Summer) |
Chinga Tu Pelo beer
[edit]In June 2015, 5 Rabbit Brewery announced that it would cease doing business with Donald Trump because of his statements about Mexican immigrants.[20] The brewery had brewed a batch of beer especially for a bar in Trump Tower Chicago. They ceased shipping the beer to the bar, and stated that the beer would be renamed to Chinga Tu Pelo (English: Fuck Your Hair), in an apparent reference to Trump's hair.[21][22][23] A few days after that, Gino's East purchased that batch of beer from the brewery.[24] 5 Rabbit sometimes brews beer using the same recipe, rebranded as La Protesta, a golden ale which is sold in cans designed by local artists.[14][25][26] A documentary short film about these events, titled F*** Your Hair, was released in 2019.[14][27]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ Chicago’s Own 5 Rabbit Cerveceria, Chicago Beer Geeks, 2012-12-23. Retrieved 2016-09-01.
- ^ a b Wehunt, Jennifer (2011-05-16). "Chicago Craft Beer Week Preview: New Brewery 5 Rabbit Launches in Chicago" Archived 2020-09-29 at the Wayback Machine, Chicago magazine. Retrieved 2015-10-15.
- ^ a b Noel, Josh (2011-06-08). "Local Brewery Taps Into Latin Culture, Flavors". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on 2011-10-10. Retrieved 2017-06-18.
- ^ Powers, Mathew (2016-05-05). "Avoid the Cinco de Mayo Cliche – Enjoy 5 Rabbit Brewery Authenticity". ChicagoNow. Retrieved 2016-09-01.
- ^ Noel, Josh (2014-01-13). "5 Rabbit Brewery Embroiled in Another Lawsuit". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2015-10-11.
- ^ Noel, Josh (2013-01-09). "5 Rabbit Lawsuit Rooted in Months of Discord". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2015-10-11.
- ^ Isaad, Virginia (March 18, 2018). "Get Hoppy: Chicago Brewery Infuses Latin Flavors into Its Beer". Hip Latina. Archived from the original on January 26, 2019. Retrieved January 25, 2019.
Their two characteristic beers, according to Mosher, include 5 Lizard, made with passion fruit and fresh lime peel, and 5 Vulture, made with unrefined cane sugar and ancho, mulato and arbol/cayenne chiles. Like in Latin culture itself, there's spicy... and then there's sweet with their offering of a Mexican chocolate beer made with cacao and arroz con leche.
- ^ Pilcher, Jeffrey M. (2019). "Dos Equis and Five Rabbit: Beer and Taste in Greater Mexico". In Ayora-Diaz, Steffen Igor (ed.). Taste, Politics, and Identities in Mexican Food. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 161. ISBN 978-1350066670.
- ^ Noel, Josh (May 14, 2012). "5 Rabbit to Open Brewery in Southwest Suburbs", Chicago Tribune. Retrieved June 18, 2017.
- ^ White, Nik (December 23, 2012). "Chicago's Own 5 Rabbit Cerveceria". Chicago Beer Geeks. Retrieved January 25, 2019.
- ^ Noel, Josh (February 21, 2013). "Co-Founder of 5 Rabbit Leaves Company amid Legal Skirmish". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved January 25, 2019.
- ^ Adams, Barry (October 24, 2015). "Octopi Opens Its High-Tech-Brewery in Waunakee". Wisconsin State Journal. Retrieved January 25, 2019.
- ^ Gerzina, Daniel (April 4, 2014). "5 Rabbit Taproom Opens Tomorrow". Eater Chicago. Retrieved January 25, 2019.
- ^ a b c Metz, Nina (2019-01-23). "A Documentary About a Small Latino Chicago Brewery's Act of Protest vs. Trump". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2019-01-24.
- ^ "5 Rabbit Cervecería", RateBeer. Retrieved 2015-10-16.
- ^ "5 Rabbit Cervecería", Beer Advocate. Retrieved 2015-10-16.
- ^ "Our Beers" Archived 2015-10-26 at the Wayback Machine, 5 Rabbit Cervecería. Retrieved 2015-10-16.
- ^ "5 Rabbit Brewing, Chocofrut Mandarina & Arroz Con Leche". The Girl and Her Beer. 2015-11-23. Retrieved 2016-09-01.
- ^ Mickle, Tripp (2015-10-09). "Tough Day? How About a Frosty Schooner of Pizza or Pond Scum?". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2015-10-11.
Chicago's 5 Rabbit Cerveceria brewed its El Chapulin Colorado beer with grasshoppers, a common bar food in Southern Mexico, to give it an aroma "a bit like fresh cigarette tobacco," said author [Randy] Mosher, who is also an instructor at the Siebel Institute of Technology, which teaches brewing education.
- ^ Noel, Josh (2015-06-29). "5 Rabbit Pulls Beer from Trump Hotel Bar, Will Sell at 32 Others". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2016-09-01.
- ^ Levitz, Eric (2015-07-02). "Brewery to Trump: 'F*ck Your Hair'". MSNBC. Retrieved 2015-10-16.
- ^ Eng, Monica (2015-06-29). "Local Brewery Turns Off the Tap for Trump". WBEZ. Archived from the original on 2015-10-14. Retrieved 2015-10-11.
- ^ Rotunno, Tom (2015-06-30). "Craft Brewery to Trump: You're Fired!". CNBC. Retrieved 2015-07-04.
- ^ "Take That Trump: Gino's East buys "---- Your Hair" Beer, Donates Proceeds to Latino Cultural Center". Chicago Sun-Times. 2015-07-01. Archived from the original on 2015-07-03. Retrieved 2016-09-01.
- ^ Saldaña, Jeronimo (August 16, 2017). "This Beer Can Has a Monster Eating a Fat Cat on It". Mijente. Retrieved 2019-06-14.
- ^ Rosner, Helen (November 3, 2020). "The Latinx Brewers Whose Trump-Branded Beer Became a Drink of the Resistance". The New Yorker. Retrieved November 3, 2020.
- ^ Thiel, Julia (January 24, 2019). "The New Doc F*** Your Hair Tells the Story of 5 Rabbit Cervecería's Inadvertent Trump Protest". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 2019-06-14.
Further reading
[edit]- Fairall, Doug (August 25, 2014). "Latin American Brewery 5 Rabbit Cerveceria Makes It to Miami, Beginning With Brunch". Miami New Times. Retrieved September 2, 2016.
- Mosher, R. (2015). Mastering Homebrew: The Complete Guide to Brewing Delicious Beer. Chronicle Books. p. 332. ISBN 978-1-4521-2441-4.