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7/23/2012 Update: Best Dives

Additions since the last post include The Grove Tap in Long Grove, Habanero’s in Davenport (Northpark Mall), and Against The Grain Brewery and Ale House in Rock Island, which used to be Mi-Pa-Nora lampshades.  Against The Grain describes itself as a nanobrewery, and for now will only make a couple of their own at a time.  They also sell a lot of microbrews, plus the standards.   In my last post, besides the six I added from the post prior I also stuck Penguin’s in the Freight House complex on because I thought I had made an oversight by not including it.  I actually had been in it, but not while it was open; and the beer I had in my hand was purchased at Balls & Pucks, so I have to take that one back off the list.  However, my original count did not include Chantilly 2 (the bartender at 4Play and I were discussing the roster of bars that had occupied that building) and Little B’s in the East Village.  With those and my three latest additions, I’m up to 446 . Once again, it’