Judging of a few tables for the Drunk Monk Challenge. Schedule:
5:30pm: Organizers arrive.
6:00pm: Judges arrive. Dinner served.
6:30pm: Judging begins.
Please be on time! Everyone has to wait until the last judge arrives before we start.
DMC Judging
Judging of a few tables for the Drunk Monk Challenge. Schedule:
5:30pm: Organizers arrive.
6:00pm: Judges arrive. Dinner served.
6:30pm: Judging begins.
Please be on time! Everyone has to wait until the last judge arrives before we start.
DMC Judging
Three small sessions to judge a few tables for the Drunk Monk Challenge. Schedule:
1:00pm: Organizers arrive.
1:30pm: Judges for 1st session arrive.
2:00pm: 1st judging session begins.
3:30pm: Judges for 2nd session arrive.
4:00pm: 2nd judging session begins.
5:30pm – 6:00pm: Judges for 3rd session arrive. Pizza served.
6:30pm: 3rd judging session begins.
Please be on time! Everyone has to wait until the last judge arrives.
DMC Judge/Steward Registration Ends
Last day of online registration of judges and stewards for the Drunk Monk Challenge. But please don’t wait until the last minute.
Drunk Monk Challenge
27th annual Drunk Monk Challenge, the UKG’s own homebrew competition, and a leg of the Midwest Homebrewer of the Year and Circuit of America.
8:00am: Organizers and stewards arrive. Breakfast is served.
8:30am: Judges arrive. Please be on time!
9:30am: Morning judging session.
11:00am: Lunch is served.
12:00pm: 2nd judging session.
2:30pm: Best of Show and Menace of the Monastery judging.
3:00pm: Raffle.
5:00pm: Awards ceremony.
6:00pm: Cleanup (organizers and stewards).
Brixtoberfest
Judging of the Brixtoberfest competition, sponsored by Brixie’s Brewers. Entries open July 15, max 240 paid entries. Judging will be at Imperial Oak Brewing, 501 Willow Blvd in Willow Springs. There will be additional judging sessions on Tuesday and Thursday.
Brewing UKG’s CHAOS Throwdown Beer
Join us on Friday, July 19 at Ray Nonnie’s house, 817 Dugout Trail in Carol Stream, as we brew the UKG’s entry for next month’s CHAOS Throwdown. It will be an American Pale Ale brewed with 100% Great Lakes wet hops. We’ll get started around 12:30pm. Homebrew is welcome!
UKG Social Afternoon
UKG Social Afternoon at Riverlands Brewing, 1860 Dean St unit A in St. Charles. Riverlands has 16 taps, including a couple of seltzers. No food is served, but you can bring your own.
Drink Dan’s Beer Party
Join us for a day of drinking some excellent homebrews! Winning Midwest Homebrewer of the Year and a gazillion other trophies has left Dan Acheson’s cellar overstocked with award-winning beers. We’ll help him drink the surplus. Please don’t bring any beer, there’s way more than enough for everyone. There will be food, but feel free to bring more.
UKG Pub Crawl
UKG bus pub crawl to Spike Brewing in Milwaukee, followed by 4 Milwaukee breweries: Lakefront Brewing, Mobcraft Beer, Indeed Brewing, and City Lights Brewing.
This event is sponsored by UKG, Club Wort, and other Chicago-area clubs. Transportation will be by motor coach, which has a bathroom and will allow drinking beer onboard. You may bring guests. To keep the price around $45, the participating clubs need to have around 45 people committed to the bus.
The bus will pick up passengers at 8:50am at Gator Chef Restaurant, 1808 Ogden Ave in Lisle, and at 9:30am at Durty Nellie’s, 180 N Smith St in Palatine. We’ll return to Durty Nellie’s at 8:15pm and to Gator Chef at 8:50pm.
We need advance reservations to make this happen. To sign up, add your name to this Google spreadsheet. The spreadsheet has the complete schedule also.