St. Paul Homebrew Club

Just stop on by. This meeting. Another meeting. Whenever it works for you. Meetings are informal and tend to last about two hours or so.

This meeting: Tuesday, February 3rd, 7 – 9 p.m.

We are at Falling Knife Brewing (thanks, guys … and thank you always, Tom). Bring your credit card and remember to tip well.

Bring your IP-A-game to this month’s meeting as February is the next Brew the Style, focusing on American IPA (21A). And, let Dave know if you’re bringing one. The winner gets an entry fee waived for an upcoming competition, and there are plenty coming up. And Dave will bring more of the 2026 SPHBC club member bottle openers for those of you who paid your dues this year. We’re not quite a month into the year and already half of these have been given away, so hurry up!

In March, we return to the malt topic and we’d like to pair the Two Track base grain beers with a hot steeped test of the same grain to identify some of the similarities/differences in these grains and their contributions in a beer.

Falling Knife Brewing:
783 Harding St NE #100, Minneapolis, MN 55413

Time is running out to pay your 2025 club dues (kidding – we’ll take them well into 2026). The club gets to keep the lights on with mundane things like web hosting and replacement parts for the club gear.

Just stop on by. This meeting. Another meeting. Whenever it works for you. Meetings are informal and tend to last about two hours or so.

This meeting: Tuesday, January 6th, 7 – 9 p.m.

We are at Falling Knife Brewing (thanks, guys … and thank you always, Tom). Bring your credit card and remember to tip well.

This month, we are welcoming Bill Dumler of Two-Track Malting. He’ll be talking all things malt, so bring your questions for an engaging Q&A! He’ll also be bringing us some malt if people want to make some test batches out of it. Additionally, Dave will have a stack of the 2026 SPHBC club member bottle opener swag in a sharp blue and white motif for those of you who paid your dues this year.
 
February is the next Brew the Style, focusing on American IPA (21A). Remember that the winner gets an entry fee comped and your name engraved in the Brew the Style winners spreadsheet. In March, we return to the malt topic with a taste test of some base and specialty grains to identify some of the differences in these grains and their contributions in your beer.

Falling Knife Brewing:
783 Harding St NE #100, Minneapolis, MN 55413

Time is running out to pay your 2025 club dues (kidding – we’ll take them well into 2026). The club gets to keep the lights on with mundane things like web hosting and replacement parts for the club gear. Plus -The 2026 dues are here! New for 2026, the first 50 who renew or join SPHBC membership will get a custom SPHBC bottle opener! Only 50 of these printed, so get one while they last.

Just stop on by. This meeting. Another meeting. Whenever it works for you. Meetings are informal and tend to last about two hours or so.

This meeting: Tuesday, December 2nd, 7 – 9 p.m.

We’ll be back at Falling Knife Brewing (thank you so very much, folks!), so please bring something to share if you wish (club members – see the club email for a message from Dave about the sign up sheet – you all know how much Dave loves spreadsheets).

We will be in the back of the taproom for this one, so we can’t bring homebrew to Minneapolis – keep it at home this month. Falling Knife always has a nice selection, bring your hard-earned credit card limit with you.

Falling Knife Brewing:
783 Harding St NE #100, Minneapolis, MN 55413

Just stop on by. This meeting. Another meeting. Whenever it works for you. Meetings are informal and tend to last about two hours or so.

This meeting: Tuesday, November 4th, 7 – 9 p.m. (second Tuesday this month!)

We are at Falling Knife Brewing (thanks, guys … and thank you always, Tom). Bring your credit card and remember to tip well.

This month, Aric and Jason will be talking brewing salts. Jason will be talking about how brewing salts impact flavor perceptions in your beer, and Aric will have doctored beer samples to bring home the point.

Absent any volunteers for a Club Vice President, Dave will be forced to impose authoritarian Presidential powers and will appoint the last person to take one big step backwards. Preference will be to assign this prestigious role to someone not in attendance at the November meeting.

December we’ll have the annual club holiday pot luck at Falling Knife! So mark your calendar for December 2nd in Falling Knife’s taproom for merriment – there are rumors of door prizes!

Falling Knife Brewing:
783 Harding St NE #100, Minneapolis, MN 55413

Time is running out to pay your 2025 club dues (kidding – we’ll take them well into 2026). The club gets to keep the lights on with mundane things like web hosting and replacement parts for the club gear. Back also this year, if you volunteered at a bottle sort, judged, stewarded, etc. at a competition, there’s a code for a $5 discount on next year’s dues (https://sphbc.org/product/membership-for-2025/).

Just stop on by. This meeting. Another meeting. Whenever it works for you. Meetings are informal and tend to last about two hours or so.

This meeting: Tuesday, October 7th, 7 – 9 p.m. (second Tuesday this month!)

We’ll be back at Falling Knife Brewing (thanks, guys … and thank you always, Tom). Bring your credit card and remember to tip well.

Finally, we’re back to our regularly scheduled meeting the first Tuesday of the month. This month, bring your best Dark Mild (13A) for the October Brew the Style, where the winner gets an entry fee comp’d at the Nordeast competition, coming up December 6. And by the way, if you can let Dave know via club email if you’re bringing a Mild to the meeting, that’ll help.

We wrapped up Rock the Block last weekend, with perfect weather for an outdoor beer fest. There was a lot of interest by attendees in the homebrew tent! On the “Rock the Hop” inter-club competition, SPHBC came in at a close second with occasional mead book writer and club member Steve Piatz’s highly hopped mead.

Also in September was the big Norwegian brew day with friend of the club Ivar Geithung, his son, as well as Ivar’s travel and brewing companion Johnny. Will there be samples at the October meeting? Perhaps.

Falling Knife Brewing:
783 Harding St NE #100, Minneapolis, MN 55413

Paying club dues is the hip thing for 2025. The club gets to keep the lights on with mundane things like web hosting and replacement parts for the club gear. Back also this year, if you volunteered at a bottle sort, judged, stewarded, etc. at a competition, there’s a code for a $5 discount on next year’s dues (https://sphbc.org/product/membership-for-2025/).

Just stop on by. This meeting. Another meeting. Whenever it works for you. Meetings are informal and tend to last about two hours or so.

This meeting: Tuesday, September 9th, 7 – 9 p.m. (second Tuesday this month!)

We’ll be back at Falling Knife Brewing (thanks, guys … and thank you always, Tom). Bring your credit card and remember to tip well.

As is often the case with our summer club meetings, the first Tuesday of September is the day after Labor Day. To ease peoples’ schedules coming off the long weekend, and particularly for those who have kids going back to school, we’ll be moving the meeting to the second Tuesday, Sept. 9.

Topic-wise, those of you who picked up hops for the Brew for Good Alpha Kings inter-club comp, bring about 3 bottles-worth of your beer featuring the YCH Cascade hops. New for this year, they’ll only have one entry per club, so we will do a mini-BOS of SPHBC’s beers and pick the best at the Sept meeting. So if you haven’t brewed yet, get going buster.

Falling Knife Brewing:
783 Harding St NE #100, Minneapolis, MN 55413

Paying club dues is the hip thing for 2025. The club gets to keep the lights on with mundane things like web hosting and replacement parts for the club gear. Back also this year, if you volunteered at a bottle sort, judged, stewarded, etc. at a competition, there’s a code for a $5 discount on next year’s dues (https://sphbc.org/product/membership-for-2025/).

Just stop on by. This meeting. Another meeting. Whenever it works for you. Meetings are informal and tend to last about two hours or so.

This meeting: Tuesday, August 12th, 7 – 9 p.m. (second Tuesday this month!)

We’ll be back at Falling Knife Brewing (thanks, guys … and thank you always, Tom). Bring your credit card and remember to tip well.

Aric will be walking the group through a vertical of Lift Bridge’s Commander, donated courtesy of Amanda and Guillermo.

October’s Brew the Style club challenge is Dark Mild, get planning and brewing for that.

Coming up this fall is a big Norwegian brew redux with friend of the club Ivar Geithung back in town, firing up the Club’s big copper kettle over an open flame. More details forthcoming from Ross. If you have another Big Brew idea, let me know and we can get it going!

Falling Knife Brewing:
783 Harding St NE #100, Minneapolis, MN 55413

Paying club dues is the hip thing for 2025. The club gets to keep the lights on with mundane things like web hosting and replacement parts for the club gear. Back also this year, if you volunteered at a bottle sort, judged, stewarded, etc. at a competition, there’s a code for a $5 discount on next year’s dues (https://sphbc.org/product/membership-for-2025/).

Just stop on by. This meeting. Another meeting. Whenever it works for you. Meetings are informal and tend to last about two hours or so.

This meeting: Tuesday, July 8th, 7 – 9 p.m.

We’ll be back at Falling Knife Brewing (thanks, guys … and thank you always, Tom). Bring your credit card and remember to tip well.

This month’s meeting will feature Light American Lager (1A). Normally the base for off-flavor kits, we’ll see hout the “Flettromel of Beers” stacks up to the style guidelines.

Last month’s Brew the Style Saison Showdown was a great showing with about 5-6 saisons. Jeremy Olson came home with the first place bragging rights (and a comp’d State Fair entry). Jason is still hoping to relinquish the Beverage Belt, which he hopes to do with the next Brew the Style Dark Mild (13A) challenge in October. If you want to brew an easy drinker with a wide range within the style, give it a shot! You can use some of that brown malt you were always wondering what to do with. The winner gets an entry fee comped at the next competition, probably the Nordeast comp by that time.

The Big Brew system knocked out an American Wheat at Adam’s house. Coming up this fall is a big Norwegian brew redux with friend of the club Ivar Geithung back in town, firing up the Club’s big copper kettle over an open flame. More details forthcoming from Ross. If you have a Big Brew idea, let me know and we can get it going!

Falling Knife Brewing:
783 Harding St NE #100, Minneapolis, MN 55413

Paying club dues is the hip new thing for 2025. The club gets to keep the lights on with mundane things like web hosting and replacement parts for the club gear. Back also this year, if you volunteered at a bottle sort, judged, stewarded, etc. at a competition, there’s a code for a $5 discount on next year’s dues (https://sphbc.org/product/membership-for-2025/).