Business Great Lakes Beer And Bourbon Opens Grandly In Palos Park Great Lakes Beer and Bourbon celebrates its grand opening Friday, July 21, featuring a wide selection of IPAs and live music. Reply
Great Lakes Beer and Bourbon celebrates its grand opening Friday, July 21, featuring a wide selection of IPAs and live music. (Great Lakes Beer and Bourbon Facebook)
PALOS HILLS, IL —Great Lakes Beer and Bourbon will open grandly this Friday, July 21, on 129th Street and LaGrange Road in Palos Park. The celebration kicks off with a ribbon cutting at 5 p.m., plus free giveaways and a show by Five Guys Named Moe.
The venue is a reworked concept in the old McDivots, whose former owner, John Reis, handed the business off to his sons. “It’s definitely a family venture,” Justin Reis said, who is running the venue with his brothers Zachary and Colin.
Great Lakes offers an expansive floor to dance, entertain, or watch live music, as well as an outdoor patio. The bar boasts an awesome TV setup by Bros Custom Audio in Tinley Park, including a state-of-the-art sound system, 20 quad TVs, a big 80-inch plasma, 220 20-inch quad TVS, an 80-inch plasma screen, 13 60-inch plasma screams and three 120-inch projectors. “It’s the best place to do a sporting event outside Las Vegas,” Reis said.
The bar opened quietly in June as the Reis brothers fine-tuned their gastropub menu, featuring burgers sourced from Illinois grain fed beef, melts, wings, wraps, chicken caesar and house salads. Starters include any variety of fried pickles, mushrooms, cheese curds, rings, spudz and boneless wings. Great Lakes also carries Fat Tommy’s Pizza.
Reis told Patch that Great Lakes is always interested in talking to local craft breweries, ever widening its selection of IPAs, seltzers, craft brews and domestics, signature drinks and wine. Soon they will bring in Great Lakes’ own house bourbon. “We’re constantly talking to local craft breweries,” Reis said. “We’re working with a local brewery in Naperville, and experimenting with different IPAs and other fun stuff.”