Category: Meetings

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, January 9th, 7 – 9 p.m.
NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TUESDAY OF THE MONTH (as is the usual)

Meeting Agenda
This month, the long-anticipated Brew the Style meeting featuring British and Irish stouts, categories 15 and 16.

BUT HERE’S THE BONUS: Northern Brewer General Manager Todd Jackson wants to do a test run of will-call pickups at our meeting.

That’s right- pick up at NB at a club meeting with no shipping cost, just like the old days!

How great is that?!

Orders must be placed online by midnight, Sunday, January 7th; orders will be ready to pick up at the January meeting at 7 p.m. SPBHC members – the club listserv message sent out by Dave Bance on December 19th on the step-by-step to place your order by midnight Sunday, January 7th, to pick up at Tuesday night at the meeting.

Location:
Northern Brewer World Headquarters – 2221 MN-36, Roseville, MN (https://tinyurl.com/NBheadquarters)

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 5th, 7 – 9 p.m.

Clear your calendar for what Dave decided is the Saint Paul Homebrew Club’s 25th annual holiday club meeting and potluck. We’ll be back at Falling Knife Brewing, and may even be lucky enough for an all-access behind-the-scenes brewery tour by Mr. Tom Berg, himself!

Keep in mind that we can’t bring homebrew to Minneapolis, so keep it at home this month. But Tom will have a nice selection, so bring your cash money.

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

New this year, we’re getting some pizzas ordered from Wrecktangle, but feel free to bring an appetizer, desert, or whatever else you’d like to bring (club members – check your email for the signup sheet). If you are planning on coming, please give me a heads up so I can get in the ballpark on numbers of pizzas (non-members – just let us know through the comments below if you plan to attend).

Don’t forget also that in January we’ll be back at NB headquarters in Roseville for a British and Irish Stouts Brew the Style! More to come next week. 

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

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

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)

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.

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.

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, June 6th, 7 – 9 p.m.

Meeting Agenda
Beer tasting 101, discussion and demonstration led by Joe Gerteis. Plus the regular SPHBC tomfoolery and hijinks.

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.

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, May 2nd, 7 – 9 p.m.

Meeting Agenda
Garrick will be discussing his wild yeast harvesting project and a discussion about Cream Ale (BJCP style 1C), the upcoming SPHBC Brew The Style (BTS) challenge for the July meeting (get busy!). Plus the regular SPHBC nonsense.

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.

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: THURSDAY, April 6th, 6 – 8 p.m.

Meeting Agenda
We have an exciting schedule change for April, meeting at Summit for a presentation and tour of Summit’s Quality Control lab on Thursday, April 6th, at 6 p.m. That’s THURSday – not Tuesday – and at 6 p.m.

Here’s the plan: 
Summit Brewing QA/QC laboratory, hosted by Zach Quandt, Quality Assurance Manager, on Thursday April 6 at 6 – 8 p.m.

Zach will share a presentation on “The role of the QA/QC lab in the process of beer manufacturing” (~40 min) in a conference room followed by Q&A. This will be followed by a visit to the Summit laboratory where Zach will demonstrate some common commercial tests (alcohol, SRM, turbidity, maybe IBU) on a pre-selected bottle(s) of homebrew, then wrapping up back at the Ratskeller.

We can bring home brew for exchanges, but we can only drink beverages from Summit. 

Final reminder: Everyone should be in Ratskeller at 6 p.m. sharp.

Location
The Ratskeller at Summit Brewing Company is St. Paul (map: https://tinyurl.com/SummitBrewingCompany)

Other Stuff
We can bring home brew for exchanges, but we can only drink beverages from Summit.