Making one’s own beer at home requires a number of things: time, patience, a batch of decent hops. But all the fancy ingredients and good intentions in the world aren’t going to transform a 500-square-feet Chicago apartment into an appropriate place in which to brew. Not if you want to live in it.
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Two years ago, development entrepreneur and major DIY guy Conrad Fuhrman found himself in that predicament—granted, his apartment was 530 square feet—and began brewing beer with CHAOS Brew Club. Short for Chicago Homebrew Alchemists of Sud, CHAOS is a home-away-from-home for home brewers who don’t have space to brew substantial amounts of beer, or don’t have the funds to buy equipment. CHAOS members have access to mash tuns, power grain mills, floor burners, brewing kettles, and, perhaps most important, a temperature-controlled room for beer to be stored during fermentation.
“We might not have the most polished walls in the world, but we brew good beer.”
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