{"id":8025,"date":"2016-01-27T15:43:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T15:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/?p=8025"},"modified":"2017-08-31T15:49:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T14:49:49","slug":"brauer-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/2016\/01\/27\/brauer-house\/","title":{"rendered":"BRAUER HOUSE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Driving a truck for a living in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, I often passed by the Brauer House<\/a> right off I-355 and North Ave. in Lombard, Illinois. It looked like a cool place to stop in and have a beer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Brauer<\/a>
Brauer House in Lombard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hearing that pinball collector and operator Gavin Miller had recently installed six sweet pins there made it the place to visit the following weekend.<\/p>\n

The Brauer House was well worth the effort to visit. When you walk into the Brauer House, there are two choices of rooms to proceed to.<\/p>\n

To the right is the bar featuring many craft beers on tap, and a grill with a large selection of food.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The many beers on tap<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To the left is a room with a few pool tables, a jukebox, and Gavin’s six pins.<\/p>\n

My choice was to go to the right side for a beer and then back to the left side to try out all the pins available.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The six pinballs at Brauer House: Kiss, Metallica, The Walking Dead, Monster Bash, The Rolling Stones & Dracula<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was awesome to play pins in their natural habitat – a dimly lit bar.<\/p>\n

Playing the pins, there was no doubt the operator was a collector. The games were very clean and had no issues. My favorite was Williams Dracula<\/em>, which I completely missed out on when it originally came out.<\/p>\n

\"Dracula<\/a>
Dracula with Monster Bash & The Rolling Stones<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There has always been a Stern pin on tournament mode the three times I have been there so far.<\/p>\n

\"Metallica<\/a>
Metallica is the ToPS Tournament machine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Brauer House often features live music. If you are going to just play the pins I suggest an early visit, or go on a Sunday.<\/p>\n

Any trip in that direction from now on will include a stop at the Brauer House to have a tasty burger, a beer or two, and play some quality pins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Driving a truck for a living in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, I often passed by the Brauer House right off I-355 and North Ave. in Lombard, Illinois. It looked like a cool place to stop in and have a beer. Hearing that pinball collector and operator Gavin Miller had recently installed six sweet pins …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":8022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[372,97,373,167],"class_list":["post-8025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sites","tag-brauer-house","tag-illinois","tag-lombard","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8026,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8025\/revisions\/8026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}