Urban Knaves of Grain (UKG)

Monthly Club Meeting

Monthly meeting to announce the latest club news, competition wins, upcoming events and happenings.

It’s also an opportunity to share some of your brews with the rest of the club and get feedback as well as taste other club members’ brews.

We welcome all visitors interested in the club. Bring homebrew if you have it and want to share.

This month’s meeting will be at Bubblehouse Brewing in Lisle. Their taproom doesn’t serve food, but you may bring your own.

Monthly Club Meeting

Monthly meeting to announce the latest club news, competition wins, upcoming events and happenings.

It’s also an opportunity to share some of your brews with the rest of the club and get feedback as well as taste other club members’ brews.

We welcome all visitors interested in the club. Bring homebrew if you have it and want to share.

This month’s meeting will be at Bubblehouse Brewing in Lisle. Their taproom doesn’t serve food, but you may bring your own.

Monthly Club Meeting

Monthly meeting to announce the latest club news, competition wins, upcoming events and happenings.

It’s also an opportunity to share some of your brews with the rest of the club and get feedback as well as taste other club members’ brews.

We welcome all visitors interested in the club. Bring homebrew if you have it and want to share.

This month’s meeting will be at Bubblehouse Brewing in Lisle. Their taproom doesn’t serve food, but you may bring your own.

Monthly Club Meeting

Monthly meeting to announce the latest club news, competition wins, upcoming events and happenings.

It’s also an opportunity to share some of your brews with the rest of the club and get feedback as well as taste other club members’ brews.

We welcome all visitors interested in the club. Bring homebrew if you have it and want to share.

This month’s meeting will be at Bubblehouse Brewing in Lisle. Their taproom doesn’t serve food, but you may bring your own.

We’ll start this meeting with an informal judging of our latest Knighted Knave Cup challenge, Scottish Ales.

Monthly Club Meeting

Monthly meeting to announce the latest club news, competition wins, upcoming events and happenings.

It’s also an opportunity to share some of your brews with the rest of the club and get feedback as well as taste other club members’ brews.

We welcome all visitors interested in the club. Bring homebrew if you have it and want to share.

This month’s meeting will be at Bubblehouse Brewing in Lisle. Their taproom doesn’t serve food, but you may bring your own.

For the technical part of the meeting in the first half hour, Dan Acheson will talk about “Tips and tricks on how to finish beer: things I’ve learned to optimize your beer once it’s done fermenting”.

Monthly Club Meeting

Monthly meeting to announce the latest club news, competition wins, upcoming events and happenings.

It’s also an opportunity to share some of your brews with the rest of the club and get feedback as well as taste other club members’ brews.

We welcome all visitors interested in the club. Bring homebrew if you have it and want to share.

This month’s meeting will be at Bubblehouse Brewing in Lisle. Their taproom doesn’t serve food, but you may bring your own. Bubblehouse is normally closed on Tuesdays, and they’re opening exclusively for us, so please help us make sure it’s worth their while.

We’ll start this meeting with a technical introduction to our latest Knighted Knave Cup challenge, Scottish Ales. Our judging of the KK Cup beers will be at the March meeting.

Midwinter Homebrew Competition

Midwinter Homebrew Competition, sponsored by the Beer Barons of Milwaukee homebrew club. Judging will be Jan 31 and 2 at Revere’s Wells St. Tavern in Delafield, WI, near Milwaukee, plus several other weekdays at nearby locations (BJCP judges only–no apprentice judges). Entries open 12/24/2024 and are capped at 500 entries. This will be the 15th and last Midwinter, and it’s expected to sell out quickly.

Webinar: The Homebrew Hangout: Fermentis Academy™ Uncovered – Unveiling the World of Yeast

Registration Required!

Free Webinar – The Homebrew Hangout: Fermentis Academy™ Uncovered – Unveiling the World of Yeast

with Hugo Picard, Home Division Manager at Fermentis

30th Annual Train Crawl 2025

Please join us for the 30th UKG Train Crawl! This year’s crawl goes from Wrigleyville to Ravenswood in Chicago:

Start at the Metra BNSF (9:08am at Rt. 59, 9:13 at Naperville, etc., or later trains) to Union Station. Weekend parking is free. A Saturday-only pass is $7.
Walk south on Clinton St to the Clinton Blue Line CTA station.
Take the Blue Line toward O’Hare 2 stops to Jackson, then transfer to the Red Line toward Howard.
Take the Red Line 9 stops to Addison.
Walk west on Addison St to Clark St. Turn right and walk to the corner of Clark and Grace St, for Greenstar Brewery (about 1/2 mile total, 10 min).
Greenstar Brewery at Uncommon Ground, 3800 N Clark, a brewery taproom associated with a restaurant, 10+ taps. This is the lunch stop. Afterward, walk north on Clark to Irving Park Rd, turn left and walk to Ravenswood Ave. Begyle will be 1 block north (about 1 mile, 22 min).
Begyle Brewing, 1800 W Cuyler, a very popular brewery taproom with 16 taps. When you’re finished here, walk 1 block north on Ravenswood to Dovetail.
Dovetail Brewery, 1800 W Belle Plaine, a brewery taproom with 13 taps. They specialize in German lagers, but also in sour beers. Next, walk west on Belle Plaine to Lincoln Ave, turn right and walk 4 blocks to Hop Butcher (about 1/2 mile, 12 min).
Hop Butcher for the World, 4257 N Lincoln Ave, a brewery taproom. Mainly an IPA specialist, but they have a few other styles among their 20 taps. Afterward, walk right a short way then turn right on Cullom Ave, go 6 blocks and turn left on Wolcott Ave, then 3 blocks north to Wilson Ave. Turn right and O’Shaunessy’s is 2 blocks ahead, just beyond the railroad overpass.
O’Shaunessy’s Public House, 4557 N Ravenswood, has an Irish pub food menu and 28 taps. This is the dinner stop.
When you’re finished, walk 10 min south on Ravenswood and 1 block west to the Montrose Brown Line station, take the Brown Line south to Quincy, then walk west 3 blocks on Jackson St to Union Station, about 49 min total. BNSF trains depart at 5:33pm, 6:33pm, 7:33pm, 8:33pm, 9:33pm, 10:33pm, 11:33pm, and 12:33am.

Join up with the Crawl at any point, leave whenever you like, and pay as you go. No reservations necessary, just show up! Transportation cost: $7 for a Saturday-only Metra day pass and $2.25 for each CTA ride.

Download a copy of the map.