Yappy Hour at The Northman

A dog happy hour on the Riverwalk, 5pm–8pm

The Northman Beer and Cider Garden sits below street level on the south bank of the river, and runs a recurring Yappy Hour — rotating drink specials and giveaways, live music, and a different partner each month.

Recent editions donated 25% of Stem Cider and Farnum Hill Cider sales to One Tail at a Time, the Bucktown rescue listed in this directory. That is the detail worth knowing: the money goes somewhere specific and local, not to a generic cause.

Entry is free. Dogs are welcome at the garden at any time, not only at Yappy Hour.

Two honest problems with planning around this

The dates rotate, and this directory cannot read them. The Northman publishes a calendar at thenorthman.com/calendar.html, but the page builds its event list in JavaScript — the underlying HTML carries the navigation and the address and no events at all. So there is no way to tell you from here when the next Yappy Hour falls. Check the garden's Instagram, or call, before making the trip.

It is seasonal, and this is the wrong end of the year to assume. The garden is entirely outdoors on the Riverwalk, its own site gives weather-dependent hours opening daily at noon in season, and it closes in cold weather. A Yappy Hour in July is a reliable proposition; one in late October or November may simply not be scheduled.

Where it actually is

The Riverwalk has no ordinary street address. The map pin on this listing is the directory's own approximation — the riverside at Wacker and Columbus. Take the stairs or the ramp down from Wacker Drive.

Provenance

The Yappy Hour details — the 5–8pm window, the free entry, the 25% donation and the rotating partner — come from the Chicago Loop Alliance's event listing, read 2026-09-28, not from the garden's own site. The garden's site supplied the hours and the seasonality. Nothing here is this directory's inference except the map pin, which is labelled as such.

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