What Do You Get When You Mix Pizza and Beer?

In a garage in the exurbs of Chicago Tom Seefurth has labored quietly to develop, refine, bottle, and bring to market the ultimate beverage – pizza beer. With a head redolent with oregano, basil, tomatoes and, yes, garlic, he believes he has finally succeeded. And Seefurth has even found an outlet, albeit a sole one, for his elixir.

What’s next for the beer meister? Salsa and curry beer, he says. Experts see Seefurth as an indicator of a resurgence in the home-brew industry, which peaked 10 years ago and then went into decline…until now. If you want to quaff Seefurth’s brew head to Walter Payton’s Roundhouse in Aurora, Illinois. (More Chicago stories.)