december 2008 founders doug hurst and tracy hurst headquarters chicago illinois usa number of locations ravenswood chicago il area served chicago il products beer owners doug hurst and tracy hurst number of employees 6 website http www.metrobrewing.com metropolitan brewing is a brewery located in chicago illinois that was founded in 2008 by former husband and wife team doug hurst and tracy hurst . 1 the brewery is located in a converted warehouse in a historically industrial area of the ravenswood neighborhood in chicago . 2 metropolitan focuses on brewing lagers in the traditional german style . 3 they are the sole craft brewery in chicago that produces only lagers . 4 mr. hurst has earned a brewing diploma at the siebel institute of technology & world brewing academy . 5 beers edit metropolitan brewing s current beers name style abv % ibu original gravity offering notes dynamo vienna lager 5.8 29 13.8 plato year round uses vienna malt and vanguard and liberty hops flywheel munich pils 5.2 45 13 plato year round krankshaft k lsch 5.0 28 12 plato year round recipe includes wheat and santiam hops iron works alt 5.8 45 13 plato year round an update to the i beam recipe . uses mt. hood and vanguard hops . generator doppelbock 8.2 25 18 plato seasonal winter arc welder dunkel rye 6.0 28 13.7 plato seasonal spring afterburner m rzen oktoberfest 6.1 25 14.2 plato seasonal fall metropolitan brewing s archived beers name style abv % ibu original gravity notes i beam alt 5.3 50 12.6 plato the names of metropolitan brewing s beers reflect the industrial history of chicago . metropolitan s beers are distributed by windy city distribution . references edit stambor zak november december 2009 new suds in the windy city . draftmag.com found at http draftmag.com magazine articles 96 bendersky ari 6 28 2009 chicago s new wave of microbrews . the new york times found at http travel.nytimes.com 2009 06 28 travel 28journeys.html 1 15 2009 first new chicago brewery in over six years set to launch . beernews.org found at http beernews.org 2009 01 metropolitan brewing becomes chicagos newest brewery macarthur kate june 20 2011 metropolitan brewing s tracy hurst thinks outside the barrel . chicago business found at http www.chicagobusiness.com article 20110618 issue01 306189980 metropolitan brewings tracy hurst thinks outside the barrel ixzz1pvr3rkva kesmodel david 3 18 2009 . in lean times a stout dream . the wall street journal found at http online.wsj.com article sb123733628873664181.html . external links edit metropolitan brewing official site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title metropolitan brewing & oldid 743337978 categories beer brewing companies based in illinoismanufacturing companies based in chicagoamerican beer brands navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 9 october 2016 at 05 07 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view