Riggs Taproom

Riggs Taproom Riggs Beer Company is a family-owned production brewery and tap room in Urbana, Illinois that features German and American wheat beers and lagers.

Our tap room seats 95 people in a cozy environment with view of our production brewery.

08/31/2026

You can engineer a spacecraft flawlessly and still miss the mark if it doesn't work for the person actually operating it, how they think, how they decide, what keeps them steady under pressure.

Graduate student Sneha Gayen studies that gap between good engineering and good design for the human being who has to use it.

🎤 Putting the Human in Human Spaceflight: Designing for Brains, Decisions, and Values
🗓️ September 13, 1-2 PM
📍 Rigg's Beer Company

Presented by graduate student Sneha Gayen, advised by Dr. Wroblewski, Department of Aerospace Engineering

Co-sponsored by IGB and the Beckman Institute

We don't just serve your beers, we also pick your ears! Whitney and Abigail picked it fresh this morning, just for you. ...
08/28/2026

We don't just serve your beers, we also pick your ears!
Whitney and Abigail picked it fresh this morning, just for you. $1 an ear all weekend long! 🌽

Join us today and tomorrow for Riggs Sweetcorn Festival: Urbana-grown sweetcorn picked fresh this morning, live music in...
08/22/2026

Join us today and tomorrow for Riggs Sweetcorn Festival: Urbana-grown sweetcorn picked fresh this morning, live music in the beer garden, ice cold American Lager (brewed with corn), every food truck has a special sweet corn dish. It doesn't get more corny...

🌽 The first 1,000 ears of Riggs Sweetcorn have been picked, quality-tested, and officially declared delicious! 🌽Join us ...
08/19/2026

🌽 The first 1,000 ears of Riggs Sweetcorn have been picked, quality-tested, and officially declared delicious! 🌽
Join us this weekend for Riggs Sweetcorn Festival 2026.
Enjoy a freshly boiled, buttered ear of sweetcorn in the beer garden while you watch the Heritage FFA kids bring in more ears—fresh-picked straight from the field and ready for you to enjoy! 🧈🌽

Fresh from the field. Hot off the pot. Cold in the glass. That’s summer at Riggs!

08/11/2026

turns out birds may have a few things to teach us about fighting infectious disease 🐦🦠

Science on Tap is back! Join MCB GSA at Rigg’s Beer Company for our next talk:

🔬 Unlocking the Secrets of Avian Immunity to Fight Zoonotic Diseases

Graduate student Madhusree Seal, from the Stadtmueller Lab in the Department of Biochemistry, will take us into the world of avian immunity and explore what studying immune responses in birds can teach us about zoonotic diseases and host-pathogen interactions.

🗓️ Sunday, August 30 · 1-2 PM
📍 Rigg’s Beer Company, Urbana
🤝 Co-sponsored by IGB and the Beckman Institute
🎟️ Free and open to everyone

Come for the beer, stay for the science and bring your questions! 🍻

Tag a friend who loves immunology, infectious disease, or just learning something unexpected over a drink.

This Thursday, 8/6/26, we're releasing our West Coast Pils: a true farm-to-farm collaboration with the Carpenter family...
08/05/2026

This Thursday, 8/6/26, we're releasing our West Coast Pils: a true farm-to-farm collaboration with the Carpenter family, who have been growing hops in Washington's Yakima Valley for 6 generations. Austin Carpenter himself even flew out to help us brew this one and catch the final night of Riggs-Fest!

The concept of a West Coast Pils is simple: take the crushability of a classic pilsner and hop it with modern American hop varieties. Expect an aroma that takes you straight back to school lunch fruit salad, backed by a delightful hint of hop resin. We kept the bitterness moderate so the beer stays balanced, clean, and completely crushable... because it's a Pils.

Enjoy the fruits of our labor!

ABV: 5.5%
IBU: 32
Grain: Riggs-Grown 6 Row, Riggs-Grown 2 Row, Riggs-Grown White Corn
Boil Hops: Carpenter-Grown Krush
Dry Hops: Carpenter-Grown Simcoe Cryo, Carpenter-Grown Krush

The German Food Truck Inc. will be here Thursday from 4-8 pm with a special pairing of Bauerntopf (Farmer Stew) and their regular menu.

Wood matters. So does the beer.Right now we're pouring three wood-aged lagers:🍺 American oak-aged American Lager🍺 Light ...
07/30/2026

Wood matters. So does the beer.

Right now we're pouring three wood-aged lagers:
🍺 American oak-aged American Lager
🍺 Light sugar maple-aged Helles
🍺 Medium sugar maple-aged Helles

Grab a flight and discover how each aging process adds its own subtle character. Which one wood you choose?

04/06/2026

All are welcome!

Address

1901 S High Cross Road
Urbana, IL
61802

Opening Hours

Thursday 3pm - 10pm
Friday 3pm - 10pm
Saturday 12pm - 10pm
Sunday 12pm - 8pm

Telephone

+12177185345

Website

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