Left Fork

Left Fork is a beer from Black Lung Brewing Co., a craft brewery and taproom with a location at 2 South Lake Street in Grayslake, Illinois.

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Specs

Brewery Description

Light and crushable with flaked maize, black malt, Noble hops.

Source: Craft Beer and Brewing: Left Fork

Tasting Notes

A light and crushable ale with flaked maize, a light amount of black malt and Callista, Fuggle and Ariana hops. This very traditional American style drinks like a crisp brown ale and is great even in summer!

Source: blacklungbrewing.com

Ingredients

The brewer's description names a hop family but no individual variety; no yeast strain is published. Craft Beer and Brewing: Left Fork

Hop Profile

Brewing Details

Style Context

As category context only, the Brewers Association guidelines define Historical Beer as established historical beers or brewing traditions from any era or part of the world that do not fit another defined style, with ABV, IBU and color varying with the underlying style. The published Kentucky Common identity provides the historical style context.

Awards History

Generated from the loaded results for this brewery and beer name, not researched separately; years not loaded are not covered.

Brewery Context

Black Lung Brewing Co. is in Grayslake, IL.

Links checked 2026-10-14: Website, Instagram, Untappd.

Related

• Brewery: Black Lung Brewing Co.
• Hop varieties: Callista, Fuggle, Ariana
• Hop farms that grow these varieties: grown by Goschie Farms

Each farm listed as growing a variety grows that variety according to the hop farm data; the brewery has not said it bought hops from that farm.

Links

• Craft Beer and Brewing: Left Fork
• Black Lung Brewing Co.
• Visit Lake County: Black Lung Brewing Grayslake
• Brewers Association: beer style guidelines

Gaps

• Not Found: Color (SRM), Original gravity, Final gravity, Hop form, Hop use, Hop lot or farm, Yeast, Adjuncts, Water, Process. Checked beerandbrewing.com, visitlakecounty.org, web searches recorded in the research notes, blacklungbrewing.com.

Research Notes

• The brewery home page URL is the website link on the Visit Lake County listing, which also gives the Grayslake address; the site itself returned HTTP 429 and could not be read.
• A web search summary of a paywalled GuysDrinkingBeer newsletter (https://karlgdb.substack.com/p/this-weeks-best-of-the-year-beer) referred to a Black Lung "Left Fork Kentucky Common"; the readable part of that page did not contain it, so the style is unverified and is not used above.
• Four web searches for the beer, including Untappd, found no listing; the site was retried at the end of research and still returned HTTP 429.
• No brewery medal announcement was found.
• Researched 2026-10-13.
• Second pass 2026-10-13: Found the matching magazine review with ABV, IBU and the brewer's ingredient description. Noble hops is the published family, not a verified variety. No dedicated brewery beer page was found.
• Field pass 2026-10-13: A search restricted to the brewery domain found no Left Fork beer or tap-list page; earlier home-page failures and third-party searches were not repeated.
• Deep dive pass 2026-10-14: the brewery's own Left Fork page (found in its sitemap) names Callista, Fuggle and Ariana hops, flaked maize and black malt, 5.2% ABV and 20 IBU; its hop varieties replace the review's "Noble hops" family, and it becomes the beer url.