plank road tap room
Plank Road Tap Room was opened in August 2014 afterwards the advance of a berth that co-owners Alan and Breanne Moreno purchased on seven acreage of land. The Tap Room has already acquired absolutely a few admirers in Elgin and the surrounding association as the best abode to get a pint of altered beer.
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Plank Road Tap Room, Elgin - Restaurant Reviews, Phone Number ... | plank road tap roomOne of the audience walks in and pulls up a bank at the bar as Alan washes a few glasses on the added side:
"I've got a abode abounding of blatant kids appropriate now, so I came in actuality to do a little assignment and adore a beer," he says.
"Perfect." Alan replies.
Plank Road Tap Room is the absolute easygoing atom to adore acceptable aggregation and abundant chat with arresting views.
["4163.24"]About the owners: Alan and Breanne Moreno accept lived in Elgin their absolute lives but acquainted that the boondocks was consistently missing article added appropriate like a abode that serves altered American ability beers.
A cruise to Colorado was aloof the affair to get the auto axis and affect them to chase a accurate passion, which was to acquaint a array of ability beers to their home town.
"We about never echo what's on the beer account aural bristles or six months," said Alan Moreno. "If I accept barter that really, absolutely appetite article aback and I can do it — I'll accompany it back. I've about never been asked to do it because I anticipate bodies adopt the variety."
Jen Weddle, Courier-News
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Plank Road Tap Room - Picture of Plank Road Tap Room, Elgin ... | plank road tap roomA pint of Old Chub Nitro by Oskar Blues Grill & Brew. Pllank Road Tap Room is always introducing new beers to its menu.
A pint of Old Chub Nitro by Oskar Blues Grill & Brew. Pllank Road Tap Room is always introducing new beers to its menu. (Jen Weddle, Courier-News)
Mission account or philosophy: The Plank Road Tap Room doesn't accept a mission account because they accept alone one ambition in mind: "I anticipate mission statements are a sales pitch, I appetite to put the best accessible beer up at any accustomed time. That's absolutely all I can do." Moreno said.
The decor: The Plank Road Tap Room is in a revamped log berth and has all the rustic agreeableness and address that you could anytime want. There are atramentous and white photos that add a blow of chic to the atmosphere, and the beer garden-style bank tables are agleam and polished. The baby capacity are what makes this abode so abundant like the P and R logos on all the glasses and the bigleaf maple tap handles.
["727.5"]We're altered because: Moreno said he didn't appetite to be like a archetypal bar because he capital bodies to appear in and feel airy in his establishment:
"We don't accept TVs, we don't do booze, and we don't do wine. We accumulate it about the beer and the chat and affair new people. I don't anticipate that there are a lot of confined that are on seven acreage of acreage area you can go alfresco and sit and adore your day," Moreno said. "We try to accumulate it low key. You're not activity to accept bodies accomplishing shots and admiring in your ear, you're not activity to accept the guy that has been sitting actuality for eight hours with his arch bottomward on the bar. We're not absolutely like that."
Extras: This is a BYOF (bring your own food) establishment. On the weeknights you're chargeless to adjustment pizza or accompany in aliment from addition bounded place. There will be a revolving account of aliment trucks advancing out from Chicago and the suburbs to advertise aliment on the weekends at Plank Road Tap Room and on some weekends there will be altered bounded breweries that appear to host contest and booty over the tap. For added accident listings appointment http://www.plankroadtaproom.com/events.
Price range: Prices can alter anywhere amid $4.50 for a can of Dave's Pale Ale to $7 or $8 for article on the beer account like a pint of Farm Hand by Brewery Vivant. At best the prices could be $10 for a pint for the best special, big-ticket and hard-to-get brews.
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Plank Road Tap Room - 48 Photos | plank road tap roomLogistics: Plank Road Tap Room is at 39W149 Plank Road in Elgin. Their hours are Tuesday through Thursday 2-10 p.m., Friday and Saturday apex to midnight and Sunday apex to 8 p.m. They will be bankrupt on Mondays. Call 224-238-3527 or appointment plankroadtaproom.com.
Weddle is a freelancer.
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