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.
Wortapalooza
Judging of the Wortapalooza competition, sponsored by Club Wort. Entries open May 6, max 250. Judging will be at Phase Three Brewing, 932 Donata Ct in Lake Zurich. There will be additional judging sessions on Wed, Thurs, and Fri.
CHAOS BrewBQ
Annual CHAOS BrewBQ, 2:00pm-7:00pm, sponsored by the CHAOS homebrew club at their unique clubhouse, 2417 W Hubbard St in Chicago. This event brings together all of the Chicago area homebrew clubs, with clubs providing and pouring kegs of their own brews, and CHAOS providing all the food. The CHAOS Throwdown chooses the club with the best beers. This year CHAOS has submitted a city permit to turn it into a street festival, so the format may change.
UKG Social Afternoon
UKG Social Afternoon at Brother Chimp Brewing, 1059 W Orchard Rd in North Aurora. Brother Chimp is a brewery taproom with 14 taps, plus guest ciders, seltzers, and wine. No food is served, but you can bring your own.
Charlie Orr Memorial Chicago Cup Challenge
Judging of the 33rd annual Charlie Orr Memorial Chicago Cup Challenge, sponsored by the Brewers of South Suburbia. Judging will be at Soundgrowler Brewing, 8201 183rd St., suit P, in Tinley Park. There will be additional judging sessions at Soundgrowler on the preceding Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday at 6:30pm.
UKG Social Afternoon
UKG Social Afternoon at Grainology Brewstillery, 131 Flinn St in Batavia. The taproom has 13 taps pouring beers, cider, and hop water. They also make vodka and 4+ year aged whisky, served on their own or in craft cocktails. No food is served, but you can bring your own.
AHA National Homebrew Competition 1st Round
Regional judging of the 1st Round of the AHA’s National Homebrew Competition. The judging this year is organized by UKG, BOSS, Brixie’s Brewers, CHAOS, Square Kegs, and other Chicago-area clubs. Judging will be at Skeleton Key Brewery, 8102 Lemont Rd #300 in Woodridge. This competition is always short of volunteers, so please consider judging or stewarding if you can. Judge and steward registration will be available soon. Times shown here are tentative.