est 1998. “I’m sure it'll be just fine”
The Homebrew Competition Remembering Historic and Long-Forgotten Beer Styles. Join us in rediscovering beers from a different place in time, again.
150 entry limit, $8/entry, 3 bottles/entry
Three New Styles for 2024: Pennsylvania Swankey, Skibsøl and Wurtzburg Mead.
More Information:
https://dejabru.org/
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.
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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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
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/
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:
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.
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)
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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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.