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Today\u2019s guest is one of the most unassuming brewery owners in Chicago: Mark Legenza of On Tour Brewing Company. On Tour is located in the brewery district that\u2019s popped up around Goose Island\u2019s Fulton Street production facility. The area is now home to half-a-dozen breweries and as many coffee roasters, and it\u2019s where the GBH Studio is located, too.

So why is it that he hasn\u2019t been on the GBH Podcast before? Well, it\u2019s definitely my fault. It\u2019s one of those situations when familiarity creates a sort of blindness. On Tour is where our team goes for many of our end-of-week happy hours. We\u2019ve said goodbye to colleagues there, and welcomed new ones. It\u2019s even where I temporarily recorded a podcast episode while our Studio was being built out down the street. On Tour is an automatic destination for me. And so much of this podcast is an exercise in seeking out what I don\u2019t already know.\xa0

But today I\u2019m happy to remedy that with Mark. On Tour previously won the Very Small Brewing Company award, only 10 months after opening, at the Great American Beer Festival. And this year it finally launched into packaging for the first time, with a Pilsner and a Pale Ale. They\u2019re two releases that define what this place is so damn good at: making classic beers that taste quintessential. In today\u2019s craft beer world, tasting a Pale Ale or a Brown Ale of exceptional quality is almost the exotic thing.\xa0

So I\u2019m pleased to sit down with our neighbor, and owner of On Tour Brewing Co. in Chicago, Mark Legenza. Listen in.\xa0