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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)
Not a member?
Join us for the meeting. This one. Another one. Whenever.
Tuesday, December 3rd! 7:00 pm. – 9:00 p.m.
December Meeting Agenda
It’s a derned ol’ Club Potluck!
So bring something to share … but it cannot be homebrew, due to Minneapolis city codes (yup, we’re taking this one over the river into Minneapolis).
The very good folks at Falling Knife Brewing are inviting us into their new brewery for this meeting. Best behavior, please. Tom and crew have been open a few months and will have great beers on tap, but won’t put up with any buffoonery nor silliness.
Location
Falling Knife Brewing Co. is located in Northeast Minneapolis at 783 Harding Street N.E.
(map: https://tinyurl.com/fallingKnifeBrewingCo)
Other Stuff
Did we mention NO HOMEBREW allowed at the December meeting? It’s the law, man. Thanks.
October 23rd, 25th & 26th
Fargo, North Dakota
Best of Show, Mead & Cider:
Thomas Coburn (First Place, Table 26 – Fruit Mead)
First Tuesday of the month, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Tuesday, November 5th!
November Meeting Agenda
We’ll talk about entering competitions. What you have to declare, what information you can add, what kind of information you should keep off the entry, etc.
Bring your Hoppy Halloween scoresheets and entries, if you have not finished them off already. Coburn drinks free!
Plus more beer and mead and idiocy and silliness. 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 along your recipe and brewing notes. Leave your ego at home.
September 27th & 28th (Summit Brewing, St. Paul)
Category 2 – Dry Traditional Mead
Jeremy Olsen, Second Place
Paul Fowler, Third Place
Jeremy Olsen, HM
Category 3 – Semi-Sweet Traditional Mead
Paul Fowler, Third Place
Category 7 – Berry Mead
Paul Fowler, Third Place
Category 3 – Stone Fruit Mead
Paul Fowler, Second Place
Category 9 – Melomel
Steve Fletty, Third Place
Category 15 – Experimental Mead Sweet
Paul Fowler, Third Place
Full results:
https://valkyrieshorn.com
(opens in a new tab)
First Tuesday of the month, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Tuesday, October 1st!
October Meeting Agenda
Sitting on a heap of apples in the cellar? Taking the kids to an orchard soon? This meeting might just be for you … a review of cider making!
Plus more beer and mead and foppery and silliness. 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 along your recipe and brewing notes. Leave your ego at home.
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
Full results:
https://www.mnstatefair.brewcomp.com/
Not a member?
Join us for the meeting. This one. Another one. Whenever.
First Tuesday of the month, 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Tuesday, September 3rd!
September Meeting Agenda
We’re gonna drink German Pils! Because that is the September club challenge, that’s why! So if you brewed it, bring it.
Plus more beer and mead and silliness and general wankery. 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 along your recipe and brewing notes. Leave your ego at home.