My former boss at Glunz has a big inventory of beer memorabila she'd like to donate to the club (for prizes and raffles). I just need someone to help me pick it up and a place to store it. I can hold some of it, but not all of it.
I'm availabe this Sun 2-16 or the next weekend Sun 22-23
CHAOS is hosting a CHIditarod party on Sat Mar 21, 2-8pm, and I'm hoping to fill the keezer with kegs of beer to share with everyone (bottle donations work too).
CHIditarod is a costumed shopping cart race based on the Alaskan Iditarod, and the event collects food and raises money to help fight hunger in Chicago. The race is Sat Mar 2. We are hosting a post-race event for award winning teams and volunteers.
Join Jeff Whelpley and I for the fourth of six monthly workshops on sensory perception, beer tasting and styles. This month we focus on UK beers, excepting porters and stouts, which we covered last month. The first three of these workshops were full, sign up now to reserve your spot. More info and RSVPs at
Registration for the 2020 version of the Charlie Orr Memorial Chicago Cup is open! Go to http://www.bossbeer.org/ChicagoCup/ , sign up and enter your beers. Last year, CHAOS came in second in the club competition for the Chicago Cup - it is really amazing how well CHAOS as a club does in competitions these days. And not just folks winning medals, but gold medals at the NHC and Best of Show beers. Its really remarkable - those are rare accomplishments!
We're still looking for a few beers for the beer engine in the Colorado Lounge. Typically we've served UK styles, low carbonation, cellar temp (50's) which do really well on the hand pulled engine.
If anyone has beers that they'd like to tap there, please LMK and also add to the signup sheet. For lighter British styles there is even still enough time to brew for it!
These British beers have done well at S&C, especially with those +1's that may not be super fans of thick and heavy stouts.
We have an opening for a brewer to join the Belgian Golden Strong project in the Koval gin barrel. In December, the third beer in that barrel, a Saison, won a medal at the Happy Holidays competition in St. Louis, in a category with 29 entries. It's a great barrel.
You would need to be able to brew the recipe provided by the end of January. Reply below if you'd like to join this group brew.
We have a space that has opened up on our Oppidan bourbon barrel project. This is a thirty gallon barrel, with six brewers. We have an imperial stout in it now and will be emptying it and refilling it in the first half of February.
I started adding in smart hubs, lights, and switches to the brewhouse.
As of now, you still have to turn the switches on at the wall for the brewing area.
Right now we have....
2 Google Nest Mini Hubs Installed (one by the computer and one by the stairs)
There are 4 lights and a switch for the fluorescents in the bar area
One switch in the brewing area with 4 lights in it (north side of the brew area)
The front half (north four assemblies, I mean) of the fluorescent lights in the brew house aren't turning on. They appear to be plugged in, although I didn't climb up to check up close or jiggle things around. The lights in the bar have been changed out for the NYE party, I assume, but nothing else seems to hooked up to these lights.
