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I am starting a new homebrew club and our first meeting is this saturday, any ideas on topics to discuss. I know HOMEBREWING! What would any of you want to be discussed?

MASH needs you for our second annual homebrew festival. Last year, the Marseilles Area Society for Homebrewers partnered with the Ottawa Illinois Visitor's Center to put on the Morel MASH-UP Homebrew Festival, which is believed to be the first ever Illinois beer festival that featured only...

https://www.facebook.com/events/1420545614850178/?source=1 May Morel Fest to add home-brewed beer tasting The Midwest Morel Fest is growing like — well, like a mushroom. Wednesday morning, the Ottawa Visitors Center announced a new component of the event — The Morel...

Just kegged my Imperial Kolsch with FG at 1.014 it came in at 9.3 % ABV. Now going to lager for a month.

I built a keezer last year and added a digital Johnson controller (from Northern brewer)and it worked fine in ther garage, so it got to being winter so I decided to move it to the basement, and now the temp on the contoller won't go below 46 degrees even though I have it set at 32 degrees...

Some of you know that we are expecting our 1st child in December and today we went for the 2nd ultrasound and they are sure (but not 100%) that it is a girl. Woo Hoo!!! I can't wait to start to show her how to brew beer!!!!!!!! Now I have to come up with a recipe to brew in honor of her...

I just bottled my 1st mead and had to take a small sample before bottling, it came out super clear.

Here is a picture of my new keezer I finished yesterday, it has 4 taps for now and will add 2 more later on.

Thought I would ask for some input, my wife and I found out 2 weeks ago that we are going to have our 1st child and I would like to give him/or her a brewing related name. Do you guys and gals have any suggestions on names???

I Exchanged my 20#co2 tank today and when I got home I looked at the tank and guess what sticker is on it? It has a NOS sticker, what the heck!!! The place was closed by the time I got home so I will have to stop there on the way home from work tomorrow, this place is like 30 miles from my home...

My homebrew club got interviewed by the Times newspaper and I am the guy in the middle of the 1st picture and here is the link, http://http://mywebtimes.com/archives/ottawa/display.php?id=411741&query=da%20beers

Hey guys hows it going I finally got some time and my internet back up and running at the rental house so I could check the forum, 2 weeks ago today my house got hit by a tornado. The house is unlivable and the garage is destroyed, we are looking for a new home so once we get a new house I will...

Hey guys finally got to borrow someones computer for a minute to check the forum, because I have not been able to have any internet since my home got damaged in the tornado on saturday night. The garage was totaly destroyed and the house is unliveable. I did manage to find a few kegs that were...

I have a great wife, because she finally gave me the OK to bring the kegerator upstairs into the kitchen, I don't know what it is going to cost me but whatever it is it will be worth it. Life is good!!:rockin:

I made a big starter using WLP028 and pitched it on 10/8/09 and it started fermenting the next morning and it is still fermenting not only releasing CO2 but you can see the yeast moving around the carboy. I am fermenting in the low 60's (I know it is too low) but I have no fermentation control...

I am hosting a Brew day at my house on Nov 7 for NHD, and if anyone in the Streator Illinois area would like to join our homebrew club that day it would be great. More info at http://thebeerbunker.com/mash

I made a Mint Chocolate Oatmeal Stout and the mint is over powering the beer but I am hoping that it will mellow some, in time, but am thinking that I need a little more chocolate flavor and was wondering if anyone has ever added cocoa powder (mixed with boiled water of coarse) to the keg?

I was wondering if there are any other brewers in Streator. I joined the MASH homebrew club in March and we have meetings the 2nd friday of every month in Marseilles. We have members from all over the LaSalle County area.

Who else is brewing this weekend? I am doing my 1st 11 gallon batch. I am making a oatmeal stout that I am going to split into 2 - 5 1/2 gallon batches, I am doing a blueberry oatmeal stout and a mint chocolate oatmeal stout. Hope they taste good, just trying something different.

I just checked the FG of my Christmas Ale and it attenuated farther than I was expecting, it came out at 10.1 %abv :rockin: It was supposed to be at 9.3% but I am not complaining. This is the biggest beer I have made so far, and I tasted the sample and it was damn good.