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Empirical Brewery

1801 West Foster Avenue, Chicago, IL 60640

Breweries

Located in the heart of Ravenswood, our brewery is located near major roads and public transit. We took a nice old building and did some cool things with it to make it work for us. In addition to our year-round and seasonal beers, Empirical offers a constantly rotating selection of experimental beers, at least one new beer per week.

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