August 2020 Meeting

Just an image of a Zoom meeting

Tuesday, August 4th, 7 p.m.

The August 2020 meeting will again be online (Zoom).

Pretty much an open agenda for this one. Obviously, it is BYOB. Make a snack, too. Why not?

Meeting information will be sent out to through the SPHBC email list sometime soon. Or closer to the date of the meeting. Regardless, look at your email messages for it.

July 2020 Meeting

The next meeting will again be online, Tuesday, July 7th, at 7:00 p.m.

We are going to have a group tasting of the Mead Day mead from last August, a a cinnamon vanilla mead that Jeremy bottled for this meeting. 

The mead pick-up and meeting information will be sent out to through the SPHBC email list sometime soon. Or closer to the date of the meeting. Regardless, look at your email messages for it.

 

May 2020 Meeting

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.

March 2020 Meeting

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.

The Results Are In … 2020 Midwinter Homebrew Competition

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/

AHA First Round is Indefinitely Postponed.

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

The Results Are In … Mashout 2020

Saint Paul Homebrewer Club members at Summit Brewing in St. Paul, MN, at the end of the awards ceremony.
SPHBC at 2020 Mashout awards ceremony.

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/

February 2020 Meeting

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.