{"id":12129,"date":"2026-04-22T14:01:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forestcitybrewers.us\/?p=12129"},"modified":"2026-04-22T14:02:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:02:01","slug":"about-our-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forestcitybrewers.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/about-our-club\/","title":{"rendered":"About our Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"206\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-803\" src=\"https:\/\/forestcitybrewers.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Forest-City-Brewers-200px-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Forest City Brewers is a social group of home-brewers and craft beer enthusiasts in the Northern Illinois area, that meet regularly in Rockford, IL.\u00a0 Our club strives to help out our fellow brewers to create better beers and cultivate appreciation of the science and culture of beer through education.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about club membership click <a href=\"\/index.php\/membership\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>. Forest City Brewers also has an active community with numerous gatherings, events, and educational opportunities. To see our upcoming events click <a href=\"\/index.php\/calendar\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our monthly brewer meetings are open to the public, if you&#8217;d like to learn more about us, please feel free to attend!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forest City Brewers is a social group of home-brewers and craft beer enthusiasts in the Northern Illinois area, that meet regularly in Rockford, IL.\u00a0 Our club strives to help out our fellow brewers to create better beers and cultivate appreciation of the science and culture of beer through education. To find out more about club<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forestcitybrewers.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/about-our-club\/\" class=\"more-link themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestcitybrewers.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestcitybrewers.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestcitybrewers.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestcitybrewers.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestcitybrewers.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forestcitybrewers.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12130,"href":"https:\/\/forestcitybrewers.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12129\/revisions\/12130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestcitybrewers.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestcitybrewers.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestcitybrewers.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestcitybrewers.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}