DOWNERS GROVE, ILLINOIS
Opened in 2004 in the heart of Downers Grove, EMMETT’S ALE HOUSE offered some of the same brews as the original Emmett’s Tavern & Brewing located 30 miles northwest in West Dundee, Illinois, July ‘05. By 2024, Emmett’s had locations in nearby West Dundee, Palatine, Downers Grove, and Wheaton.
This high scale establishment featured American cuisine, spacious dining areas, and a central laminated formica wood bar with two televisions. A big screen TV in the back bar area keeps patrons entertained while a separate family-style dining area to the left proposed quieter environs.
Glass enclosed brew tanks at frontage serve off-dry wheat-husked Munich Light Helles Lager, lively banana-sweet clove-backed Hefeweizen and spicy yellow-fruited frisky-hopped serenity Dortmunder Export.
Experienced drinkers will enjoy medicinal rye-caramelized whiskey-fruited 1 A.M. Ale and leisurely dry-hopped, wood-burnt, coffee bean-roasted Dry Irish Stout, two of brewer Rob Hunter’s finest prizes.
Better still, sharp-fruited pine nut-influenced Victory Pale Ale and pine lacquered wood-smoked tangerine-berry-grapefruit-spiced Centennial Amber Ale will please mainstream customers as well as seasoned connoisseurs.