Between the Bluffs Homebrew Competition 2024

The 2024 Between The Bluffs Homebrew Competition is organized by The La Crosse Area Grain Enthusiasts & Related Specialties (LAGERS), La Crosse, WI.

Key Dates:
Registration: 1/15 – 3/20
Entry Dropoff: 2/1 – 3/20
Judging: 3/23
Awards: 4/27 (Southside Oktoberfest Grounds, La Crosse, WI)

More information:
https://laxlagers.brewingcompetitions.com/

Valkyries Horn Amateur Mead Competition: 2024

The Valkries Horn Amateur Mead Competition is in February 2024.

Key 2024 dates:

  • Registration opens December 2, 2023
  • January 5 – Shipping opens February 2
  • Delivery deadline February 2
  • Entries and changes close February 3, 9:00am
  • BOTTLE SORT AT NORTHERN BREWER HEAD QUARTERS in Roseville
    If you volunteer at the bottle sort, you may bring your entries with you!

More information is at https://comp.valkyrieshorn.com/

DÉJÀ BRÜ 2024

The Homebrew Competition Remembering Historic and Long-Forgotten Beer Styles. Join us in rediscovering beers from a different place in time, again.

150 entry limit, $8/entry, 3 bottles/entry

Three New Styles for 2024: Pennsylvania Swankey, Skibsøl and Wurtzburg Mead.

Key Dates:

  • 15 Dec 2023 – Registration opens
  • 27 Jan 2024 – Drop-off closes
  • 16-18 Feb 2024 – Judging

More Information:
https://dejabru.org/

2023 Minnesota State Fair Competition

Open to Minnesota residents only. Limited to 400 paid entries.

Account registration: Now Open
Entry Registration: Now Open
Judge and Stewart Registration: Now Open
Entry Drop-off (local)/Shipments Accepted: June 30th – July 28th
Judging: August 18th and 19th at Summit Brewing in St. Paul

All of the details are at https://www.mnstatefair.brewcomp.com/ (opens in a new tab or window)

2022 Minnesota State Fair Home Brew Competition

The Minnesota State Fair Home Brew Competition is gearing up for 2022. And we need your help.

Image of Saint Paul Homebrewers Club logo and Minnesota Home Brewers Association logo.

The Saint Paul Homebrewers Club and the Minnesota Home Brewers Association run this annual event, one of the biggest competitions in the state.

Account registration: Now Open
Entry Registration: Begins May 20th
Entry Drop-off (local)/Shipments Accepted: July 1st – 21st
Sort: July 31st
Judging: August 1st through August 14th (remote/small group judging)

Sign up to enter. Sign up to help out: https://www.mnstatefair.brewcomp.com

2021 Minnesota State Fair Home Brew Competition

There’s a Fair … in the air!

Dust off your equipment and clear your calendar to help out with judging and toting beers and such, because the Minnesota State Fair Home Brew Competition is BACK for 2021! And we need your help.

SPHBC and the Primary Fermenters run this (mostly) annual event, one of the biggest competitions in the state.

Important Dates:
Account registration: Now Open
Entry Registration: Begins June 14th
Sort: August 7th
Judging: August 7th through August 22nd (remote/small group judging)

Sign up to enter. Sign up to help out: https://mnstatefair.brewcomp.com

AHA First Round is Indefinitely Postponed.

Mark your calendars and roll up your sleeves – St. Paul is once again one of the first round sites for the American Homebrewer Association National Homebrew Competition. Judges and Stewards will be needed!

Sort:
Sunday, March 8th (9 a.m.)
Location: Northern Brewer Warehouse – 2221 MN-36, Roseville, MN (https://tinyurl.com/NBheadquarters)

Judging Sessions:
Friday, March 13th (sessions at 1 p.m., 3 p.m. and 6 p.m.)
Saturday, March 14th (sessions at 9 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.)

Location: Summit Brewing’s wonderful Beer Hall in St. Paul
(map: https://tinyurl.com/SummitBrewingCompany)

SIGN UP TO JUDGE:
https://brewingcompetition.com/

All about volunteering for the AHA National Competition:
https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/national-homebrew-competition/entrant-volunteer-information

Save the Date – 2020 Minnesota Mashout Sort

It’s that time again… time to unpack, sort, and put labels on 2000 bottles of homebrew for the 2020 Minnesota Mashout! The Mashout is closing in on 20 years and is organized by the Saint Paul Homebrew Club.

When: Sunday, January 12th – starting at 9 a.m.
Where: Northern Brewer Warehouse – 2221 MN-36, Roseville, MN (https://tinyurl.com/NBheadquarters)

If you have access to, or have any spare, 6-pack holders and 24-pack cases, please bring them… as per usual we’ll need as many as we can get.

‘Tis the Season … Minnesota Mashout 2020!

Get busy, folks, this is the big one.

The 19th annual Minnesota Mashout (aka, the “BumbleRick” one) – organized and run by the Saint Paul Homebrew Clue (that’s us!) -is set for January 24th and 25th at Summit Brewing in St. Paul.

Some Important Dates:
– Account Registration opens Friday, December 20th
– Entry Registration opens Friday, December 20th
– Judge and Steward Registration opens Friday, December 20th
– Entry Drop Off/Shipping opens Friday, December 20th at 9 a.m.
– Entry Drop Off/Shipping ends Friday, January 10th at 5 p.m.

Everything you could possibly want to know about the competition – how to enter, where to ship or drop off entries, how to VOLUNTEER to help as a judge or steward or at the sort, the invited speakers, the silent raffle and more – is posted and updated at the https://mashout.org/ web site.

The two-day event ends with the awards ceremony Saturday night at 6:00ish at Summit Brewing’s wonderful Beer Hall in St. Paul (map: https://tinyurl.com/SummitBrewingCompany)