Category: beer education

Brewing TV #51: Home Sweet Homebrew

New Brewing TV episode online now. Northern Brewer Minneapolis is more than NB’s third and flagship retail store. It was built it to be a forum for demonstration, discussion and documentation of homebrew and pro brewing. Join BTV for the first few weekends of events at NB Minneapolis including a test-brew for an upcoming beer kit, Q&A with Kristen England and Jerrod Johnson (both homebrewers gone pro) and inside a Home Brew Day celebration!

A Discussion with Jerrod Johnson (Surly Brewing Co.)

Northern Brewer Homebrew Supply hosts a discussion with Jerrod Johnson, brewer at Surly Brewing Company. Brewing TV‘s Jake Keeler moderates the discussion/Q&A in which Johnson talks about how he got into the brewing business, brewing at brewpubs vs production breweries, his role at Surly Brewing Company, and the brewery’s future. And also – red flannels. [Recorded December 3, 2010]

A Discussion with Kristen England (homebrewer/Pour Decisions Brewing Co.)

Northern Brewer hosts a discussion with award-winning homebrewer and soon-to-be professional brewer Kristen England. Brewing TV’s Jake Keeler moderates the Q&A in which England talks about his time spent building recipes for Northern Brewer, the origin of Patersbier, considerations to make between extract and all-grain, fine-tuning your palate and your homebrew, going pro, and we get a look at what beers Pour Decisions Brewing Company will be hitting the market with in the first half of 2012. (Shot December 4, 2011 at Northern Brewer Minneapolis)

Look for more special guests and pro brewers to appear at Northern Brewer Minneapolis, most of which will be recorded and posted on Northern Brewer’s “Connect” page and YouTube channel including one from Surly’s Jerrod Johnson in the next week or so.

Minneapolis Home Brew Day!

In celebration for the joy of homebrewing and the passion of local homebrewers, Mayor R.T. Rybak and the City of Minneapolis have proclaimed Saturday, Dec. 10th “Minneapolis Home Brewing Day.” City Council Member John H. Quincy will be on hand to say a few words during the symbolic event at Northern Brewer’s store in Minneapolis (6021 Lyndale Ave. S). The brief event and photo opportunity goes down at 1 p.m.

Regardless of where you live and brew, if you are a Minnesotan homebrewer, come out and represent! Got a club? Bring them along! And because behind every successful brewery is a group of one-time home brewers, local professional brewers from Surly Brewing, Lucid Brewing, and Pour Decisions Brewing Company will be in attendance.

Come celebrate craft beer at its most local – homebrew!

(Homebrew Starter Kits will also be available for 10% off Saturday only at Minneapolis and St. Paul locations of Northern Brewer)