Now you can have beer in the shower
October 29, 2009
For those who dream of bathing in beer: A Chicago microbrewery can get you close.
The Half Acre Beer Company is selling soap made with beer for $6 a bar at its brewery store at 4257 N. Lincoln.
The beer soap is made by Grandma Gee's, owned by Jim Gregory, an Indiana college student. Gregory, 22, who grew up in southern Indiana and is a senior at Hanover College, claims beer "macronutrients" are good for skin and hair.
But the yeasty beer smell? Not so good. So Gregory added lavender, bergamot and menthol.
Sales have been brisk, says Matt Gallagher, one of Half Acre's owners: "We sold through two-thirds of [what was in stock] in the last 10 days."