Judging Dates: August 16th & 17th (Summit Brewing, St. Paul) Best of Show and Awards: August 24th (State Fairgrounds, St. Paul)
Beers: Ron Fitch, Third Place, Category 1 – Pale American Beer Ron Fitch, Second Place, Category 8 – Amber & Brown American Ale Garrick Van Buren, Second Place, Category 12 – British & Irish Stout Scott Johnson (Co-Brewer: Paul Ough, Amy Johnson), Third Place, Category 15, Imperial Stout Garrick Van Buren (Co-Brewer: Jon Steinhorst), Second Place, Category 19 – Belgian Ale Mike Spores, First Place, Category 22 – American Wild Ale Mike Spores, Third Place, Category 24 – Fruit Beer
Ciders: Ross Winberg, First Place, Category 29 – Standard Cider & Perry Ross Winberg, Second Place, Category 29 – Standard Cider & Perry Jermey Olsen, Second Place, Category 30 – Specialty Cider & Perry
2019 American Homebrew Association National Homebrew Competition First Round
Various First Round Sites, Various Dates in March and April Updated as sites report
Beers: (Minneapolis First Round) Aric Daul, First Place, Category 1 – Pale American Beer Petr Bachan, First Place, Category 4 – Amber European Beer Tyler Miller, First Place, Category 5 – Dark European Beer Mike Spores, Third Place, Category 7 – German Wheat Beer Tyler Miller, First Place, Category 9 – Scottish & Irish Ale William Richartz, First Place, Category 26 – Smoke-Flavored Beer Mike Spores, First Place, Category 28 – American Wild Beer William Richartz, Third Place, Category 28 – American Wild Beer William Richartz, First Place, Category 29 – Specialty Beer
(Kansas City First Round) David Merz, Third Place, Category 22 – Strong Belgian Ale
Meads: (New York First Round) Steve Fletty, Third Place, Category 30 – Traditional Steve Fletty, First Place, Category 32 – Spice & Speciality Steve Fletty, Second Place, Category 32 – Spice & Speciality
(Minneapolis First Round) Paul Fowler, Second Place, Category 32 – Spice & Speciality (Indianapolis First Round) Jeremy Olsen, First Place, Category 31 – Fruit Mead
Ciders and Perrys: (Indianapolis First Round) Jeremy Olsen, First Place, Category 34 – Specialty Cider & Perry
Dave Bance, First Place, Category 8 – Pale British and Commonwealth Beers William Richartz, First Place, Category 15 – Fruit Beers William Richartz, Second Place, Category 18 – Sour & Funky
Adrian Eastwick, First Place, Category 19B – Dark British Beer David Merz, Third Place, Category 16 – Scottish/Irish Beer David Merz, Third Place, Category 21 – Specialty Beer Aric Dahl, Second Place, Category 26 – Cider with Other Fruit Steve Fletty, Second Place, Category 29 – Fruit Mead
Dave Bance, Second Place, Category 2 – International, Czech, Pale European and Commonwealth Lagers Ron Fitch, Second Place, Category 9 – Pale American Ale
January 25th & 26th
Summit Brewing Company, St. Paul, Minnesota
BEST OF SHOW – CIDER: Jeremy Olsen, Ice Cider 8.0 (Category 48)
Beers:
Adrain Eastwick, Third Place, Category 7 – Schrödinger’s Bocks David Merz, First Place, Category 10 – What’s Brown, Sticky And English? David Merz, First Place, Category 11 – Wheat, Rhye And Wheird Tyler Miller, Second Place, Category 11 – Wheat, Rhye And Wheird Dave Bance, Third Place, Category 13 – The Queen’s Oppression Ales Tyler Miller, Third Place, Category 15 – Pre-Whiskey Aka Scottish & Irish Ales Tyler Miller, Second Place, Category 16 -Extra. Sweet. Irish. Oatmeal. Stouts Paul Fowler, First Place, Category 22 – Prohibition Of Porters James Cotner, First Place, Category 23 – Stoutiest Stouts That Ever Stouted Garrick van Burn, Third Place, Category 29 – Saison That Are Probably Still Too Sweet David Merz, First Place, Category 31 -I Like This Style Like I Like My Men Amanda Neisch, Third Place, Category 32 – Potpourri Of Amazingness Tyler Miller, Third Place, Category 36 – Sitting Shv-A
Meads: Amanda Neisch, Second Place, Category 41 – Flower Ovaries Jeremy Olsen, Second Place, Category 42 -Drive By Fruitings At Historic High
Amanda Neisch, Third Place, Category 44 – Keep Your Brasilain, All I Need Is A Shv
Steve Fletty, First Place, Category 45 – Thar Be Winners & Then Thar Be Christopher’s Delicate Sensibilities Christopher Skottegard, Second Place, Category 45 – Thar Be Winners & Then Thar Be Christopher’s Delicate Sensibilities
Ciders:
Jessica Haverly, First Place, Category 46 – Mundus Novus Ross Winberg, Third Place, Category 47 – Sexy Ciders
Jeremy Olsen, First Place, Category 48 -Ciders With Stuff Chucked In
Congrats to SPHBCers who medaled at the 2018 Minnesota State Fair Home Brew Competition.
Mike Spores‘ German Wheat finished first runner-up for Best of Show for Beers.
Beers:
Petr Bachan, HM, Light Lager Petr Bachan, Gold, Pilsner Mike Spores, Silver, Bock Petr Bachan, Gold, European Dark and Amber Lager Aric Daul, Silver, English Pale Ale Guillermo Marques with Chris Kulak, Dave Bance and John Lomnicki, Gold, American Pale Ale Mike Spores, Gold, German Wheat William Richartz, Silver, Brett, Mixed, Wild Fermented
Meads: Jeremy Olsen, Silver, Traditional Mead Rick Helps, Gold, Melomel Amanda Neisch with Guillermo Marques, Silver, Melomel Christopher Skottegard , Bronze, Spice & Specialty
Cider & Perry: Jessica Haverly, Silver, Standard Cider & Sherry
Congratulations to Jeremy Olsen, who took home not one but two Bronze Medals from the American Homebrew Association’s Homebrew Con 2018, for his Melomel (Category 30: Fruit Mead) and his New England Cider (Category 33: Specialty Cider & Perry).
The 2018 competition had 8,405 entries judged, with 1,201 entries advancing to the Final Round in Portland, Oregon.
Working right through the blizzard, Minneapolis Region Judging at Summit Brewing, St. Paul.
Congrats to SPHBCers who medaled and advanced in the first round of the American Homebrew Association National Homebrew Competition.
Beers: Mike Spores, Third, 1B (Pale American Beer), Minneapolis Region Mike Spores, First, 5A (Pale European Beer), Minneapolis Region Sean Sonnabend, First, 11A (Pale British Ale),Minneapolis Region Aric Daul, Second, 12A (Pale British Ale),Minneapolis Region David Merz, Second, 16c (British & Irish Stout), Kansas City Region James Henjum, Second, 15A (Scottish & Irish Ale),Minneapolis Region Joe Kinney, Third, 21A (American IPA),Minneapolis Region Jim Cotner, First, 20C (Imperial Stout),Minneapolis Region Ron Fitch, Third, 20C (Imperial Stout),Minneapolis Region Tyler Miller, Second, 22A (Stong American Ale), Minneapolis Region Joe Kinney, Second, 25B (Saison), Minneapolis Region Jessica Haverly & Crew, Third, 25B (Saison), Minneapolis Region Steve Simonson, Second, 28B (American Wild Ale), Minneapolis Region Mike Spores, First, 29A (Fruit Beer), Minneapolis Region William Richartz, Second, 31A (Specialty Beer), Minneapolis Region Ross Winberg, Second, 34D (Specialty Beer), New York Region
Meads: Joe Gerteis, First, 35C (Traditional Mead), Minneapolis Region Jeremy Olson, Third, 35C (Traditional Mead), Indianapolis Region Orsoyla England, First, 36D (Fruit Mead), Austin Region John Rankin, Third, 36C (Fruit Mead), Tampa Region Paul Fowler, Third, 36C (Fruit Mead), Minneapolis Region Jeremy Olson, Third, 36E (Fruit Mead), Indianapolis Region Steve Fletty, First, 37B (Spice & Specialty Mead), Austin Region Maggie Wachter, First, 37A (Spice & Specialty Mead), Chicago Region Rick Helps, Second, 37A (Spice & Specialty Mead), Philadelphia Region Steve Fletty, Third, 37A (Spice & Specialty Mead), Austin Region
Cider & Perry: Jeff Cotton, First, 39A (Standard Cider & Perry), Austin Region Ross Winberg, Second, 39A (Standard Cider & Perry), New York Region Thomas Coburn, Second, 39A (Standard Cider & Perry), Minneapolis Region Jessica Haverly, Third, 39A (Standard Cider & Perry), Minneapolis Region Thomas Coburn, First, 40B (Specialty Cider & Perry), Minneapolis Region Jeremy Olson, Second, 40A (Specialty Cider & Perry), Indianapolis Region Orsoyla England, Third, 40B (Specialty Cider & Perry), Austin Region Jeremy Olson, First, 40D (Specialty Cider & Perry), Indianapolis Region Amanda Neisch & Guillermo Marques, Second, 40D (Specialty Cider & Perry), Austin Region Bjorn Berg w/Jenny Ginter, Second, 40E (Specialty Cider & Perry), Minneapolis Region
