est 1998. “I’m sure it'll be just fine”
It’s nearly May and the grass is greening, the birds are chirping and SPHBC is social distancing.
The May meeting will be a virtual one, via Zoom. Details to come.
Tuesday, May 5th, 7 p.m., wherever you are (as long as you have a good internet connection). Zoom meeting specifics was sent to SPHBCers via the group email on Tuesday.
Stay safe.
No meeting this month – stay safe!
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. Often followed by a trip to a local establishment, if’n folks are inclined.
This meeting: Tuesday, March 3rd, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.!
March Meeting Agenda
It’s a test! A test of your senses. Word has it that there will be a hop sensory session and discussion.
Plus more beer and mead and cider and taradiddle and senselessness. That’s what the Saint Paul Homebrewers do.
Location
Northern Brewer on Grand Avenue (https://tinyurl.com/NBStPaul) 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 (you DID renew your membership fo 2020, right?). And Northern Brewer will honor your SPHBC discount, 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
As always, if you bring homebrew or mead or cider (or whatever), bring it! Along your recipe and brewing notes. Leave your ego at home.
February 7th and 8th
Revere’s Wells Street Tavern, Delafield, Wisconsin
Mead Best of Show:
Steve Fletty – Melomel, All The Passions
Beers:
Dave Bance – First, Table 7: British/Commonwealth Beer, Pride of Woodbury (12B: Australian Sparkling Ale)
Meads:
Steve Fletty – Second, Table 30: Stone Fruit Mead, Cerise (M2D: Stone Fruit Mead)
Steve Fletty – First, Table 31: Melomel, All The Passions (M2E: Melomel)
Steve Fletty – Third, Table 32: Fruit and Spice Mead, Sergio (3A: Fruit and Spice Mead)
Full Results:
https://midwinterhbc.com/competition/
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
January 24th and 25th, 2020 at Summit Brewing, St. Paul, Minnesota
BEST OF SHOW – CIDER
AMANDA NEISCH (CO-BREWER: GUILLERMO MARQUES), C2D CIDER
Beers:
Ross Winberg (Co-Brewer: Robb Stephens) – First, Table 5: Pils, Kleine Pils Und Hil Yis Pils!
Paul Fowler – First, Table 6: Schrödinger’s Bocks
Asa Bielenberg – Second, Table 8: Dark Blackish Lagers
Dave Bance – First, Table 9: #megxitMegxitMEGXIT
Dave Bance – Third, Table 10: Small Brown Jobbers
Ron Fitch – Second, Table 14: Beer Styles Trump Hates
David Mertz – Second, Table 18: Ipas For People That Are Bored
Aric Daul – Second, Table 22: I Like This Style Like I Like My Men
David Mertz – Third, Table 22: I Like This Style Like I Like My Men
Douglass Johnson – Second, Table 23: Hopefully Not Booch
Ciders:
Jessica Haverly – First, Table 29: Sexy Ciders
Amanda Neisch (Co-Brewer: Guillermo Marques) – First, Table 30: Sexierist Ciders
Meads:
Guillermo Marques (Co-Brewer: Steve Fletty, Amanda Neisch) – HM, Table 35: Sour Grapes
Paul Fowler – First, Table 36: Flower Ovaries
Paul Fowler – Third, Table 37: Stoned Fruit
Steve Fletty – Second, Table 38: Sideshow Mels
Amanda Neisch (Co-Brewer: Guillermo Marques) – HM, Table 40: Keep Your Brazilian, All I Need Is a little Shv
Jeremy Olsen – Second, Table 41: Apples, Burnt Sugar And Made Up Stories
Steve Fletty – Second, Table 42: Meadtails & Hateraide
Full results: https://mashout.org/bcoem/
Not a club member? No 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. Often followed by a trip to a local establishment, if’n folks are inclined.
This meeting: Tuesday, February 4th, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.!
February Meeting Agenda
It’s pour and celebrate/commiserate time … bring your score sheets from Mashout and – if you still have some – entry samples to gloat about your winners or kvetch about the judges (some of whom will be at the meeting, quite likely).
Plus more beer and mead and cider and farce and tommyrot. That’s what the Saint Paul Homebrewers do.
Location
Northern Brewer on Grand Avenue (https://tinyurl.com/NBStPaul) 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
As always, if you bring homebrew or mead or cider (or whatever), bring it! Along your recipe and brewing notes. Leave your ego at home.
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.
Not a club member? No 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. Often followed by a trip to a local establishment, if’n folks are inclined.
This meeting: Tuesday, January 7th, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.!
January Meeting Agenda
It’s the January Club Style Challenge … Porters!
Bring your Porters, bring your recipes, bring your notes and palate … because we are sampling the Porters you and others brewed and bring to this meeting.
Plus, discussion of the 2020 Minnesota Mashout (https://mashout.org/), the competition organized by the Saint Paul Homebrew Club. Get an idea of how the competition is run, opportunities and benefits of volunteering, plans Mashout for speakers and events.
Plus more beer and mead and folly and foppery. That’s what the Saint Paul Homebrewers do.
Location
Northern Brewer on Grand Avenue (https://tinyurl.com/NBStPaul) 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
As always, if you bring homebrew or mead or cider (or whatever), bring it! Along your recipe and brewing notes. Leave your ego at home.
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)