Improbably still, the lake rests contentedly as a sheet of glass. A summer by the lake brings feelings of softness and relaxation. Michigan is home to this eponymous lake, as well as one of the Midwest's finest breweries. Bell’s is known primarily for Oberon, its velvety summer wheat concoction. The versatile Kalamazoo brewery crafts beers as varied as any conscious beer drinker’s palette. Puffy-clouded summer days call for a puffy, slightly cloudy Oberon. Winter’s chill might sway a drinker toward the warming Java Stout.

But those searching for Bell's don't have to travel to Michigan anymore, the Kalamazoo brewery recently reached an agreement with a couple of Illinois distribution companies to start bringing Bell's to the masses in Chicago (and hopefully the Champaign-Urbana market soon), a year and a half after the fued that curbed Bell's sales in Illinois.

Editor's Note: Roving beer and music enthusiast Matt Cohn combines these iconic forces, matching the perfect brew for the perfect band in his new column, Listing to Music.

Beer and music are meant to intoxicate, so what happens when we combine these forces?

Visualize a Venn Diagram formed by two iconic circular objects of our time. On one side we have the sweat left by a bottle of beer, or a pint glass. The other side can be a compact disc, a vinyl record or (pervasively) a portable device’s click wheel.