November 1-3, 2023, Kansas City, Missouri
Second Place:
Wood Aged Mead: Jeremy Olsen, Darkness
Full results:
https://home.mazercup.org/
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The Results are In … 2022 Mazer Cup International Mead Competition
Author: Ron
November 2023 Club Meeting
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 7th, 7 – 9 p.m.
Meeting Agenda
We will be returning to Bang Brewing Company in St. Paul where our wonderful host Jay – and maybe even Sandy if we are lucky – will talk Kernza. Hear Sandy’s interview about brewing with organic ingredients with John Holl on the “All about Beer” podcast. Jay and Sandy have long been generous friends of the SPHBC – indoor voices, please and thank you, tip well.
Plus the usual SPHBC tomfoolery. Bring your own beers and meads and ciders and cysers (oh, my!) for sampling and feedback . Remember to bring your notes.
Location:
Bang Brewing Company, located at 2320 Capp Road, St. Paul, Minnesota
October 2023 Club Meeting
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 3rd, 7 – 9 p.m.
(Back to the normal first Tuesday of the month)
Meeting Agenda
SPHBC member Art got us in the door at White Bear Meadery, which was host to September’s Valkyries Cup Mead Competition judging by chatting up the owner (nice work, Art).
Think of it as a Mead Day reboot; we’re able to bring our own mead (or homebrew), but be sure to also try out a mead from our host.
This is our first meeting at White Bear Meadery – indoor voices, please and thank you, tip well.
Location:
White Bear Meadery
1320 County Rd D Cir, St Paul, MN 55109
The Results Are In … 2023 Valkyries Horn Amateur Mead Competition
September 22nd and 23rd
White Bear Meadery, Maplewood, Minnesota
Best of Show – Mead
Jeremy Olsen – Bronze Medal (Experimental Sweet), Barrel Project 3.0
Meads
Sean O’Leary – Bronze Medal (Sweet Berry), Dark Spark
Jeremy Olsen – Gold Medal (Experimental Sweet, Barrel Project 3.0
Full results: https://comp.valkyrieshorn.com/
Traditional Norwegian Farmhouse Brewing Demonstrations
Step back in time as Northern Brewer hosts a unique brewing experience: a full day of traditional Norwegian farmhouse brewing demonstrations and conversations about the history and use of kveik at our World Headquarters in Roseville, Minnesota. This is a special opportunity to participate in an international celebration of brewing featuring two Norwegian farmhouse brewers, Ivar Geithung and Johnny Ottar Pedersen.
With support from Northern Brewer, St. Paul Homebrewers Club, and other local homebrewers, Geithung and Pedersen will coordinate multiple simultaneous brewing demonstrations that showcase brewing techniques from four regions of Norway:
- Heimabrygg: Voss-Style Hard-Boiled Ale
- Stjordalsøl: Stjordal-Style Alderwood-Smoked Raw Ale
- Konnøl: Northwest Norwegian Style Raw Ale
- Eastern Norway Style Boiled Mash Semi-Raw Ale
Date: Saturday, September 16th.
Location: Northern Brewer World Headquarters – 2221 MN-36, Roseville, MN (https://tinyurl.com/NBheadquarters)
Stay tuned to this Facebook Event Page for more details as we get closer to the brew day.
September 2023 Club Meeting
Not a club member? Not a problem!
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 19th, 7 – 9 p.m.
NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TUESDAY OF THE MONTH (as usual)
Meeting Agenda
This month, is A VERY SPECIAL AFTER SCHOOL MEETING …
In a Norwegian tradition called Oppskåke, travelers Ivar and Johnny will be discussing historic Norwegian farmhouse brewing. This will certainly be a unique experience. Ivar and Johnny are coming to Minnesota – gear in tote – to share a few weeks with us and teach us.
This meeting is fresh off the heels of their brewing event on Saturday, September 16th, in which they will have coordinated multiple simultaneous brewing demonstrations that showcase brewing techniques from four regions of Norway (you should go to that, too, if you can). At the September meeting, we will be sampling these beers.
Location:
Northern Brewer World Headquarters – 2221 MN-36, Roseville, MN (https://tinyurl.com/NBheadquarters)
The Results are In … 2023 Minnesota State Fair Homebrew Competition
Summit Brewing, St. Paul, Minnesota
August 18th-19th
Best of Show – Mead: Steve Fletty, Chateau Fletty (M2B: Pyment)
Beers:
Nick Stevens, Gold, American Lager – Dog Days
Dave Bance, Silver, Kolsch – Tall Koln One
Ross Winberg, Bronze, British Bitter and Brown – Triumph Bitter
Aric Daul, Gold, American Wheat – Mistral Wheat
Ross Winberg, Gold, Stout – MacKlay’s Oat Malt Stout
Ron Fitch, Silver, Stout – Imperial Stout
Garrick Van Buren, Bronze, Belgian & French – White
Garrick Van Buren, Gold, Monastic Ale – Single
Art Arsenault (co-brewers: Jeff Ciskowski, Jim Bannon, Ross Winberg) Gold, Specialty & Alternative – Norwegian Ale
Ciders:
Aric Daul, Gold, Specialty Cider – George
Meads:
James Bannon, Bronze, Traditional Mead – Trad Dry Goldenrod
Steve Fletty, Gold, Fruit – Cyser/Pyment – Chateau Fletty
Steve Fletty, Silver, Fruit – Berry/Stone Fruit/Melomel, Berry Patch
Steve Fletty, Silver, Fruit – Berry/Stone Fruit/Melomel, Passionista
Steve Fletty, Gold, Spice & Specialty Mead – Trio
Complete results: https://www.mnstatefair.brewcomp.com/
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August 2023 Club Meeting
Not a club member? Not a problem!
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 1st, 7 – 9 p.m.
Meeting Agenda
Egads! It’s August already? Where did July go? Where did June go? Where did my youthful optimism and hope go? Down the drain with that infected patersbier, that’s where.
This month, we discuss the upcoming Club Brew the Style Challenge for November. What will it be? You decide … at this meeting. And, Art is leading a discussion on how to make Hop Water. Plus the typical nonsense that one expects at a Saint Paul Homebrewers club meeting.
Location
SPHBC is back at Northern Brewer on Grand Avenue (https://tinyurl.com/NBStPaul)! Northern Brewer is kindly keeping the door open for this meeting in their Grand Avenue store (thankyouverymuch!) and is happy to honor your SPHBC discount on supplies while there (and, again, the next day, when you are back to pick up the Starsan or bottle caps or whatever you forgot to buy during the meeting).
Thank you Northern Brewer!
Other Stuff
Bring your beers and your meads and your ciders and your cysers – oh my – for sharing and feedback. Bring your notes and leave your ego at home.
Congratulations, Steve Fletty!
Congratulations to Steve Fletty on bringing home three medals from the American Homebrew Association’s National Homebrew Competition (June 21st-23rd, San Diego, California).
Category 34: Traditional Mead – Gold Medal
Category 36: Fruit Mead – Silver Medal
Category 38: Specialty Mead – Silver Medal
July 2023 Club Meeting
Not a club member? Not a problem!
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 11th, 7 – 9 p.m.
Meeting Agenda
It’s the Club Challenge! This one is Cream Ale (BJCP Category 1C) – bring your entries and your notes and be ready to taste and vote! Plus the typical nonsense that one expects at a Saint Paul Homebrewers club meeting.
Location
SPHBC is back at Northern Brewer on Grand Avenue (https://tinyurl.com/NBStPaul)! Northern Brewer is kindly keeping the door open for this meeting in their Grand Avenue store (thankyouverymuch!) and is happy to honor your SPHBC discount on supplies while there (and, again, the next day, when you are back to pick up the Starsan or bottle caps or whatever you forgot to buy during the meeting).
Thank you Northern Brewer!
Other Stuff
Bring your beers and your meads and your ciders and your cysers – oh my – for sharing and feedback. Bring your notes and leave your ego at home.