The Beer Report · Since 2005

Craft beer, burgers & bad ideas from Downstate Illinois

Central Illinois’ longest-running beer podcast. Groucho & CHUD have been drinking local, eating local, and talking way too much about it since 2005.

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Pick your poison

The shows

Burgers & Beer

Groucho rates the burger, the beer, and the bar — one Tazewell County joint at a time.

Groucho’s Moveable Feast

Road-trip eats and brewery stops, from Muscatine, Iowa to Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Interviews

On-location conversations with the brewers and owners behind your favorite taps.

About TBR

Beer people, not beer snobs.

Groucho and CHUD started The Beer Report in 2005 and somehow never stopped. The show once landed on the front page of iTunes, picked up fans around the world, and accidentally became a kind of Prairie Home Companion for Central Illinois beer lovers. Sans the fiddle.

We support local. We’re not here to tear anybody down — we’re here to shine a light on the small businesses pouring their blood, sweat, and tears into a personal dream.

More About TBR

2005

On the air since

100+

Episodes recorded

Tazewell Co.

Home base, Illinois

Your hosts

The usual suspects

Groucho

Founding partner. Burger judge. Microphone hoarder.

CHUD

Co-managing partner and resident wildcard.

“Thanks for solving the craft beer problem in Central Illinois.”

A listener — yeah, we did that all by ourselves

Know a spot we should drink at?

Bar tips, guest ideas, burger leads, complaints about CHUD — send them our way. We’ll get back to you in our own sweet time.

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