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‘Much more than a glass of beer’: Turner Häus turning the tide for Chicago’s Black brewers

CHICAGO -- For cousins and craft brewers Steve Turner and Blair Turner-Aikens of Turner Häus Brewery, beer’s four simple ingredients are a blank slate to create with a wide world of flavor. “Beer is not one-dimensional by any means,” Turner said. In their taproom, which shares a space with Sip & Savor in the historic Rosenwald Court Apartments, you’ll meet a pantheon of ancestors they’ve ...
A beer flight at Turner Häus Brewery, 78 E. 47th St., Chicago, on Feb. 2, 2024.

CHICAGO -- For cousins and craft brewers Steve Turner and Blair Turner-Aikens of Turner Häus Brewery, beer’s four simple ingredients are a blank slate to create with a wide world of flavor.

“Beer is not one-dimensional by any means,” Turner said. In their taproom, which shares a space with Sip & Savor in the historic Rosenwald Court Apartments, you’ll meet a pantheon of ancestors they’ve venerated through their small-batch beer.

The family-owned taproom opened in November. But their journey crafting beers that pay homage to their foremothers goes back over 10 years.

Turner brewed his first

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