Cold Bottle, Warm Night, Pure Chicago
You know the feeling.
It starts sometime in late May when the temperature finally breaks and Chicago exhales. The city shakes off six months of grey skies and cold wind like it's been holding its breath since October — and suddenly, everybody wants to be outside. Front stoops fill up. Music drifts between yards. Somebody fires up the grill, and before you know it, what started as a quiet Friday night has turned into the whole neighborhood showing up on your back porch.
This is Chicago summer. And if you've lived it, you know there's nothing else like it anywhere in the world.
The thing about a real Chicago backyard gathering is that it doesn't need much. It needs people who mean something to you. It needs good food — ribs, Italian beef, something your grandmother made that nobody else knows how to recreate. It needs music loud enough to feel it in your chest. And it needs something cold in your hand that's actually worth drinking.
That last part? That's where Chicago Draft Style comes in.
Chicago Root Beer wasn't designed for a restaurant menu or a grocery store shelf. It was made for exactly this — the informal, unscripted, this-wasn't-supposed-to-go-this-long kind of night that ends up being the one people talk about for years. Hand-crafted right here in the city, sweetened with pure cane sugar, never pasteurized, and naturally caffeine-free, it's the kind of drink that fits every hand at the party. The kids. The cousins. The neighbor you just met who somehow knows everyone. The person who doesn't drink alcohol but never wants to feel like they're drinking something lesser.
Chicago Draft Style Root Beer is frothy, rich, and cold in a way that hits different on a humid July evening. The Orange Cream takes you somewhere nostalgic — like being 11 years old and not having a single responsibility in the world. The Black Cherry disappears faster than anything else in the cooler. The Cream Soda is smooth and rich in a way that makes people stop mid-sip. The Ginger Ale — crisp, bright, and clean — is what people reach for when they want something that feels a little more grown up.
Bill Daker didn't build this brand in a test kitchen. He built it on the streets of this city, understanding the energy and the pride that makes Chicago unlike anywhere else on earth. "Chicago isn't a place," he said, "it's a birthright. It's a feeling." That feeling is in every bottle.
So this summer, when you're setting up the folding tables and the cooler is packed and the whole block is starting to drift your way — reach for something that was made for this. Something that was made here.
Chicago Draft Style. Hand-crafted in Chicago. Made for nights exactly like this one.