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| - One of the very best bars in Champaign. The Blind Pig has a superlative selection of beers as well as a full liquor line up. Beer geeks come from hundreds of miles away to drink here. They have paper menus of their approximately 24 beers on tap, but be warned, they are always changing these up, so check the big white board at the back of the bar for the latest line up. If you have never had one, a cask-conditioned ale is good to try. If you don't like it, I will take the remainder off your hands. They also have lots and lots and lots of bottled beers, but they turn these over fast. I have never had a skunked beer here, even when ordering really obscure bottles that would gather dust at any other place.
The bar staff are well trained and know their shit. The only complaints I have is that they can seem snotty when a customer mispronounces a foreign-sounding beer. Not a big deal to me, because if I was on the other side of the bar and somebody asked for a Stella Artoys, I'd have a little fun at their expense, too.
The decor and crowd are extremely casual. Unfinished wood and unshaven granola. Performance fleece is the new cashmere. Chacos and Tevas, not Manolos or Jimmy Choos. This is very much a grad student/young professional bar. Undergrads should go across the way to the Piglet or better yet, stay on campus. The prices are a little higher than you may be used to for swill (and I have absolutely nothing against cheap beer) but the prices are absolutely fair for what they serve.
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