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The Joliet Brewers Guild will be having their January meeting this coming Wednesday, January 13th at 7pm at the Chicago Street Pub in downtown Joliet (75 N Chicago Street). If you live in the area and want to see what a homebrew club can do to make your brewing hobby even more fun, then come on...

Just a reminder for all of you Joliet, IL area homebrewers that the Joliet Brewers Guild will be having their monthly meeting tonight at 7pm at the Chicago Street Pub located at 75 N Chicago Street in downtown Joliet. Bring a few bottles of homebrew if you have any and come on down and check us...

So it's really freaking cold here in northern Illinois, and I was down in my basement trying to plug up air leaks, and I was working in the basement brewery and I put my hand inside my vent hood to see if any cold air was coming in from the vent area, and...oh yeah. A goodly amount of cold air...

Okay, so I built this really nice brew stand for brewing outside back in...2011, I think? Maybe 2012? It served me well, but I moved my rig to my basement and went electric so I no longer need it. I'd prefer to see it go to a good home so someone else can use it. I would feel bad if I had to...

So you've got your brewery up and running and you can make beer in it. Hooray! But there's always room for improvement, am I right? Nearly all of us have made lists of things that they've wanted to do to create their ideal brewery, and nearly all of us have quickly realized that we don't have...

Okay, so I have a confession to make. I've owned a 2-tap keezer for about a year and a half now, and...I've never cleaned the beer lines. I am so, so sorry, Beer Gods. I shall make penance. Anyway...so I cleaned the beer lines tonight for the first time. I used some commercial BLC stuff...

The Joliet Brewers Guild will have our February meeting tomorrow night at 7pm at the Chicago Street Pub located at 75 N Chicago Street in downtown Joliet. If you're a homebrewer that lives in the Joliet area, come on down and check us out! Bring a growler or some bottles of homebrew if you...

The Joliet Brewers Guild will be having our monthly meeting on Wednesday, December 11th at 7pm at the Chicago Street Pub located at 75 N Chicago Street in downtown Joliet. This month, we're having our Christmas Beer / Winter Warmer competition! Come and try some of the awesome Christmas beers...

The Joliet Brewers Guild will be holding its September meeting tonight. We'll be discussing the Hopstring Fest and the Midwest Brewers Fest, as well as going over the upcoming "Christmas/Winter Specialty Spiced Beer" contest in November. Come on down and share some homebrew! We meet at 7pm...

The Joliet Brewers Guild will have their August meeting on Wednesday the 14th starting at 7pm at the Chicago Street Pub located at 75 N Chicago St in downtown Joliet. We've got the big Imperial IPA contest this month! $50 worth of gift certificates to the Brew N Grow! And lots to talk about...

Hey all, tomorrow is our monthly meeting. We've got a lot of stuff to discuss about the upcoming Hopstring Fest and Midwest Brewer's Fest. We've been invited to participate in both and so we're going to need volunteers and homebrews donated. It's going to be a busy time for us this month and...

The June meeting is tomorrow! Bring your lovely summer brews for tasting! Or whatever you have left over from Spring. I've got a nice Mosaic/Amarillo/Simcoe Pale Ale I'm gonna lay out on you guys. It's pretty durn tasty. Anyway, since it will be during the 'Hawks / Bruins game, we'll try...

So I finally completed my 240v 50a control panel, but it's going to be a month or two before I get the 240v 50a service set up in my basement, and I'm really curious to see if everything is working okay on my control panel. I don't need to test the element outlets, I just wanted to make sure...

If any of you Joliet-area homebrewers would like to come check out our homebrew club, come on over to the Chicago Street Pub located at 75 N Chicago St in downtown Joliet. Meeting starts at 7pm and goes until 10ish. We'll be going over the agenda items and then will be sharing everybody's...

Here's a design I took from the illustrious P-J and modified it a bit. Thank you very much for the original drawing, P-J, and thanks to jtkratzer for letting me stand on your shoulders for this build. I just want to make sure that I didn't change anything to make it unsafe or unworkable...

Thanks for the inspiration, Brewitt! I got around to making a bigger windscreen for my KAB6 today. Went to Menard's and bought two pieces of 8" drawband, which is used to connect 8" fireplace pipes together snugly. Or something like that. I dont know. It's 24 gauge. I'm pretty sure it's...

The Joliet Brewer's Guild will be having its first meeting on March 13th, 2013 at 7pm at the Chicago Street Pub located at 75 N Chicago St in downtown Joliet. If you live in the area, then come on over and join us for this historic first meeting! 50 years from now, when you're looking through...

Get one cup of distilled water, cool it to 60° F (or whatever your hydrometer says it's calibrated for), and then test your hydrometer. They usually only cost around five bucks at the homebrew store, so chances are pretty good the quality control on them is not the best. Here's mine. As you...

Some jerk stole my Northern Brewer package of grains and yeast off of my front porch today. I've never had any packages stolen off of my front porch, until today. And they stole a whole bunch of grains and yeast? What a stupid package to steal. Honey Brown Ale recipe, and I was planning to...

Hopefully somebody can tell me what I'm looking at here. My brewing partner and I brewed a pale ale with Cali Ale yeast. We kinda overfilled the 6.5 gal carboys and one of them had a blowout. I added a blowoff tube to the one that had a blowout and fermentation continued as normal...