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New Chicago brewery Yido Brews makes makgeolli, Korea's oldest drink

Operating Yido Brews full time since October 2026

Peter Chung started homebrewing makgeolli at home seven years ago and, after about three years of experiments, got a batch he could make consistently. In October, he left his coordinator job at Sierra Club Illinois to run Yido Brews, a craft makgeolli brewery on the Near West Side, full time.

Updated Oct 30

Notable Quotes

"It came to this point where I was like, no one else is doing this — I guess I'm gonna do this."

from New Chicago brewery Yido Brews makes makgeolli, Korea's oldest drink · Updated Oct 30

"I looked at the ingredient list, and it was like aspartame and sucralose, and I was just really disappointed because I loved the taste of the makgeolli that I was drinking in Seoul."

from New Chicago brewery Yido Brews makes makgeolli, Korea's oldest drink · Updated Oct 30