Metropolitan Brewing

Metropolitan Brewing was a brewery located in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 2008 by then-husband and wife team Doug and Tracy Hurst. It was originally located in a converted warehouse in a historically industrial area of the Ravenswood neighborhood of Chicago. In 2017, they moved to a larger facility with a taproom at 3057 N Rockwell Street in Chicago.

Metropolitan focused exclusively on brewing lagers in the traditional German style, the only craft brewery in Chicago to do so. Doug Hurst earned a brewing diploma at the Siebel Institute of Technology.

In December 2019, Metropolitan became embroiled in a long-running dispute with their landlord over rent and the square-footage of their building, saying the lease they agreed to was 24,000 square feet but their landlord instead listed it as 33,000 square feet in the contact. As a result, they ceased paying their full rent. In October 2023, the brewery filed for bankruptcy, noting slow sales and unsustainable debt. The brewery closed permanently on December 18th, 2023.