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Hi, fellow homebrewers! CHAOS Brew Club is having its 3rd annual Cinco De Mayo member appreciation party which we're calling "Cerveza De Mayo." Join us at the CHAOS community brewhouse for our 3rd annual home-brew and taco fiesta! Over 30 homebrews from CHAOS members (full menu at...

Yes, yes, indeed. Illegal events are certainly to be frowned upon; would certainly not want to ruin it for other home brew clubs, agreed. I can assure you that CHAOS has explored the Illinois Liquor law in detail and has participated in more than a couple fora, discussion, and meetings...

If anyone has any questions about the event or the club, don't hesitate to PM me! Hope to see you there!

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Anyone comin'? Here's the headliner, Aucustico, for you to hear how talented they are. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYao1k6g28s&feature=youtu.be We're going to have some delicious Mexican food and some awesome some Latin-inspired beers (I have a chipotle California common and there are many...

Check out Logan Square, somewhere along the blue line. You'll have Revolution and Boiler Room not too far from you (two excellent beer places) and you can be downtown at school in 20 minutes.

Cinco de Cerveza, A Celebration of National Home Brew Day and Cinco de Mayo Damas y Caballeros, join our club as we celebrate the craft of beer making along with the Mexican holiday celebrating the victory at the Battle of Puebla. Enjoy free artisan beers and feast on free authentic...

Holy cow! That's a lot of great stuff! Please enter my name in the drawing!

Thank you, Pappers, for helping us promote Ides! We look forward to seeing you there!

Sorry about that! We are rather short handed at the moment; too few of us are doing too many things. Just keep watching the events and/or come to the Ides of Cider event we're having on October 15th to meet the crew and get involved.

I'm going to plug CHAOS, too. It's really an awesome group of brewers: knowledgeable; very approachable and laid back, always willing to help - in person - with any type of beer question; very into beer with a streak of geek (interested in the science behind brewing as well as drinking and...

This is going to be an awesome event! CHAOS is an awesome group of brewers!

Don't really consider myself a beginner anymore but just wanted to post this for the beginners. I made a pretty volatile batch of IPA (fermentation started within hours and was still actively going three weeks later). Once I thought it was finished, I started taking gravity readings to...

"Attenuation" is getting the best of me today; thoroughly confusing; having a tough time wrapping my brain around it. DISCLAIMER: Yes, I've tried to sort through all the posts on attenuation for the answer to my question but I can't seem to find one to help me understand. It's seeming to...

I don't have any photos of mine but from the looks of it it's way muddier than yours. I made a starter and it really took off!!!!!! The yeast really did some work on a pretty high gravity IPA. I haven't bottled it yet so the taste is yet to be tested but in terms of the viability of a murky...

Yeah, you're right. I like GreenFrog5's idea of measuring it out before hand. I think part of my problem is a small pot. I put 4 gallons into it this past brew and had only a couple of inches left at the top. Which meant I was slowly - VERY slowly - pouring the DME into the boil. If I had...

I'm glad you mentioned putting the 2nd DME into another 1.25 gallons of hot water. It jogged my memory that I was wondering about pre-dissolving all the DME into a determined quantity of water before ANY addition. If one were to dissolve all the DME into, say, 1.5 gallons of water and then...

I (tried) to wash according to the sticky but my cake doesn't fit into a single gallon jug or big jar. At any rate, I didn't think I washed correctly because I got only brownish, no clean white pure yeast layer. I kept a few jars nevertheless and I just used one. Despite the fact that it...

Excellent. Thanks for the replies! Just wanted to make sure it wasn't some crack-pot idea...