Live, from Peoria, Illinois, it’s Saturday night, starring this week’s host, Nightjar with special guest stars, Trey and Jessie.
Now please welcome, from beautiful downtown Peoria, this week’s host, Nightjar!
Here we are at Nightjar on State Street in downtown Peoria.
This place formerly housed Bearded Owl Brewing and it’s still a brewery with specialty craft cocktails.
Their beer is here! Let’s go in and check it out!
Wow, it’s really nice in here! Quite an impressive place.
Let’s snag a seat at the bar, get a beer and then we can take a look around in here.
Here’s friendly bartender Trey serving me up a beer.
This place has a great selection of specialty craft cocktails, a great beer selection including beer brewed right here on the premises and they also have Hamm’s beer on tap. Only an asshole would come in and order the Hamm’s beer with all of those other quality and unique selections to choose from.
And yes, I am that asshole! Hey what can I say? I love the taste of sky blue waters! Cheers!
Here’s the co-owner of Nightjar, Jessie Yoskin, who was keeping an eye on things on the other side of the bar.
Jessie and her husband moved here about a year ago after living in Hawaii and having worked in the restaurant industry for over twenty years. She renovated the space formerly known as The Bearded Owl Brewing and partnered up with the former Head Brewer of Bearded Owl, Cassy Gilbert and they created this new space, Nightjar.
You can read more about them in this article that was published last Friday in the PJ Star.
I wish the two of them the best of luck, Jessie told me to feel free to wander around and take some photos and so here we go!
There’s a menu with some of the holiday drink specials available in the next couple of weeks. As you can see, they have a nice selection of beers on tap.
Wow, check out the inventory of liquor on display in here, they have a wide selection of craft cocktails and these bottles provide the ingredients for them!
There’s a limited New Year’s Eve party happening here, come in and find out the details for this end of the year party!
They just started serving their house-brewed beer last Friday and here’s the brewery area. It’s nice and sparkly over here!
They have tables lined up by the front windows overlooking State Street and here’s a nice communal wooden table in front of the brewery area. There’s a festive Christmas tree lit up behind it!
There’s a dining and drinking area with tables and chairs opposite the front bar area.
Meanwhile, back at that aforementioned bar area…
Dinner is served! They have homemade pizza in here along with other food selections and I ordered a pepperoni pizza.
It was delicious! The crust was thin and crispy and the sauce and pizza had a zippy and zingy taste and it was a delicious Saturday night dinner!
They have flavored shots of Malort in here and this months flavor is cookie dough and it’s served up in this festive ornamental shot glass!
They have a Malort specials in here with punch cards and a Malort party happening at the end of January. Stop in and find out all the details while enjoying one of these holiday shots!
Thanks to Jessie and Trey for the hospitality and a fun Saturday evening at Nightjar!
Stop by and check out one of Peoria’s newest downtown artisanal cocktail and house-brewed craft beer bars!
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112 State Street
Peoria
309-306-1449
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