Recent content by Skin5482

USA

Definitely check out Chicago Brew Werks/ Werk Force. There's also Tailwinds Distillery right next door and Ten Drops Coffee just opened up over there too. If you're up for a little drive check out 350 Brewing, Hailstorm Brewing, Pollyanna, or Imperial Oak. I'm sure there's a few that I'm...

2 days, 11.5 gallons both days. Needed at least 20 gallons for my wedding and it was starting to get kind of close to the date so I brewed it all up one weekend.

My brother and sister in law live in Columbus and always take my wife and I out to some bar or brewery when we visit. Check out Land Grant. They're small but have some pretty good stuff. https://landgrantbrewing.com/

19,230 +5 Chocolate Espresso Stout (wedding brew test batch) +5 BrewDog DIPA clone +22 Chocolate Espresso Stout (for the wedding) = 19,262

Congrats! I'm in almost the same boat as you. I proposed back in October 2014 and we're getting married in October 2015. I really wanted to serve my beer at the reception but we had a hard time finding a place that would let us so we decided to do a beer as a wedding favor. My fiance loves...

Pearl of the Stars Coheed & Cambria

My neighbor jokingly asks this every time my brother and I brew. He knows exactly what we're doing, he just thinks it's funny.

My brother and I brewed this up for the 4th of July. It was our first 5 gallon full boil, we ended up using a little too much water and our OG was a little on the low side. We also used WB-06 instead of the suggested yeast and fermented around 70. Fermented for two weeks, bottle conditioned for...

Subscribed. I'm in the exact same boat as you and I'm curious to hear what others have to say.