Prairie Schooners

Homebrew Club for Springfield, Illinois

A club for homebrewing enthusiasts in Springfield, Illinois. Currently holding monthly meetings to share brews and information.

Site Membership

The public is welcome to view our main club page. Should you wish to participate on the website, please apply for membership. You will then be approved by an admin.

Meetings are open to the public and there is no need to request permission to attend, just a desire to know and brew great beer!

Here is a pdf file of the bylaws for the Prairie Schooners Homebrewers adopted 11 June 2009: PSHBylaws20090611.pdf

Club Officers are:
President - Vacant
Vice President - Vacant
Treasurer - Mike Bauer
Secretary - Shannon Shanks
Vacant Elections at February Meeting

Contact Information:
prairie.schooners@gmail.com
(217) 953-0229


Latest Activity

Hi All, I will be brewing a Brown Porter on Monday Feb 15th. I plan to start around 10am or so. People are welcome to stop by and watch or even brew if they like. Pray for a warming trend... Chuck
6 hours ago
Thanks for the links. I primarily use Strange Brew. I know it supports Windows and Linux, but not sure about Mac. It is Java based, so it may work. Here is a link to where you can download it. The current version is 2.01. The about box says it is…
23 hours ago
Mark Sheftick added a discussion
Life hacker had an article on some open source brewing software that should work on Windows/Mac/Linux.Brewtargethttp://brewtarget.sourceforge.net/Brewstahttp://sourceforge.net/projects/brewsta/
yesterday
Sure it's cold but hey, You probably don't need a wort chiller!
yesterday
Pretty.... How is the taste?
yesterday
Chris Izatt added a photo
my first beer i have ever brewed coopers dark ale
yesterday
Mike Bauer is attending Shannon Shanks's event
Feb Monthly Meeting at Norb Andy's
February 10, 2010 from 7pm to 9pm
Club Meeting
on Sunday
Bill Tubbs added an event
2010 National Homebrewers Conference at Sheraton Minneapolis South
June 17, 2010 to June 19, 2010
The National Homebrewers Conference is a fun, educational gathering designed to enhance homebrewers' brewing skills and knowledge and increase homebrewing camaraderie. Special seminars and events cater to beer enthusiasts and amateur brewers of ever…
on Sunday
Bill Tubbs added an event
July 26, 2010 to July 30, 2010
First time they've held this class in Chicago. It's usually held in Ft. Collins. You've heard of Ray Daniels and Randy Mosher? They'll be two of your instructors. Not to mention the president of White Labs, Chris White. It's not cheap, but nothing r…
on Saturday
I haven't seen a coat with a dog heater built in. Keep up the good work... I hope to have better weather on my next brew... Feb 15th.
on Saturday
I brewed in my garage with the door closed last week. But I didn't have a built in dog heater,
on Friday
donald landry added a photo
Me an Ozzy brew a Scottish wee heavy ale
on Friday
donald landry and Bryan are attending Shannon Shanks's event
Feb Monthly Meeting at Norb Andy's
February 10, 2010 from 7pm to 9pm
Club Meeting
on Thursday
I just threw the hop pellets in the bucket and it did make a little mess. Even pelletized hops have little pieces of hops that clog up the racking process.For simplicity and max infusion I didn't use a bag. May use bag next time for easier clean up.
February 3
David Smalley 5 gal. Pale Ale carbonating, 5 gal. fermenting. Feb and March = lots of hoppy beer drinking.
February 3
Kevin Adams might attend Shannon Shanks's event
Feb Monthly Meeting at Norb Andy's
February 10, 2010 from 7pm to 9pm
Club Meeting
February 2
Kevin Brown I'm here for the beer!
February 2
Tickets are also available by mail. Go to http://chibeer.org/ and click on Events. Bill is right - if you are interested don't delay. Both sessions will sell out. I plan to be there from 1 - 5 also.
February 2
This will be fun. I always liked Norb's in the past. No disrespect to Floyds or Brewhaus. I like them too.
February 2
Feb Monthly Meeting at Norb Andy's
February 10, 2010 from 7pm to 9pm
Club Meeting
February 2
 

Forum

News, Views, & Reviews

A place to post comments and reviews of recent events

19 discussions

Homebrewing

General discussions on the craft of homebrewing

28 discussions

Homebrewing - Newbies

Introductory forum for those new to brewing to ask questions and get answers

4 discussions

Commercial Brews

General discussion of commercial beers

2 discussions

Club Business

Topics related to the workings of the club

6 discussions

2010 Brewing/Discussion Schedule

January: 13 Stout
February:12 Porter
March: 10 American Ale
April: 14 IPA
May: 24-26 Mead??
June: 1 Light Lager or 2 Pilsners
July: 6 Light Hybrid (Cream ale, Kolsch, etc..)
August: 7 Amber Hybrid (Altbier, California Commmon)
September: 9 Scottish Ale
October: 3 European Amber Lager (Octoberfest, Vienna)
Novemeber: 27-28 Cider??
December: Specialty (Rye IPA or Winter Ale, or ......)



Assorted Useful Links (a work in progress)

The American Homebrewers Association page on the Brewers Association website: American Homebrewers Association

How To Brew by John Palmer is one of the most useful books to a homebrewer, new and old. Palmer graciously put the first edition of his book on the internet. It is free to read and print. www.howtobrew.com

Homebrew Talk forums are a good source of information. Run a quick search can often yield needed information, especially in a hurry. Homebrewtalk.com

Brew365 is a great source of information and recipes. They even list out recipes to clone some of the popular commercial brews. www.brew365.com

Brew-Monkey is another repository for information and recipes. Especially of note are their interviews with craft brewers. www.brew-monkey.com

Hopville is a budding community for homebrewers and their recipes. It's still under development, but instead of being "in beta" it's been "getting bettah" all the time. http://hopville.com/whats-brewing

Basic Brewing is run by James Spencer and is a weekly podcast on homebrewing and general beer topics. His video offerings are a little more intermittent but just as good. The nice thing about audio is that you can learn something useful even while you are doing some sort of menial activity. If you have never watched or listened to any of his productions, scan the archives for anything of interest.Audio Video

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State Journal-Register article on homebrewing and the Prairie Schooners

We were visited in March by the SJ-R who were keen to find out who and what makes a beer-maker.

www.sj-r.com/features/x1950207554/Beer-lovers-say-theres-nothing-better-than-making-it-yourself

How we "evolve" as beer enthusiasts

An entertaining article by BUZZard Joshi Fullop

http://www.smilepolitely.com/food/a_beer_sojourn/

Members

  • Chuck Costello
  • Bill Tubbs
  • Eric Johnson
  • Mike Bauer
  • Mark Sheftick
  • James McIntosh
  • Chris Izatt
  • David Smalley
  • donald landry
  • Bryan
  • Kevin Adams
  • Kevin Brown
  • Barbara Wilkins
  • Adam Conn
  • Mike Kelly
 

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