[ August 7, 2010; 11:00 am to 4:00 pm. ] Stop by Northern Brewer on Saturday between 11am and 4pm for Mead Day festivities, including meadmaking demos (straight mead and melomel), honey tasting, mead sharing, bees from Ames Farm, mead kit discounts and more!

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Really nice story in today’s Pioneer Press on homebrewing and the National Homebrewers Conference–front page no less!

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Brewing TV – Episode 6: Summit Brewing Co. / Topless Hefe (revisited) from Brewing TV on Vimeo.

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[ June 15, 2010; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Lots of stuff is happening this week in conjunction with the National Homebrewers Conference in town this week. Here’s one more, in case you missed it.
Taste of Newport at the Happy Gnome | St. Paul, MN
June 15, 2010 | 6:00pm – 9:00pm

Join Rogue Ales Brewmaster, John “more hops” Maier, at The Happy Gnome for a [...]

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Locally-produced Brewing TV has launched their site and goes live with their first episode on May 7th.
“Brewing TV: a new webshow made for, by, and about homebrewers. We’re not teaching you how to brew, we’re reminding you why you brew.”

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Congrats to the new elected members of the American Homebrewers Association Governing Committee. A special nod to St. Paul’s Jake Keeler, the latest Minnesotan to join the committee. Cheers!

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Thanks Chip!

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Our good old buddy/pal/nice guy Chip made some videos for Northern Brewer. Check ‘em out.
Racking Beer with Auto-Siphon (Chip makes a cameo at 1:19)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abk6hNNGeAg
Cleaning a Carboy with PBW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8Lwj-Pdl_U
Using Easy Clean on Glass Carboy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh6zrS-Dl5c
Cold Water Bath
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1fju9Or1GU

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We received a quick note about a homebrew course that Mississippi Market and Northern Brewer are putting on… sounds like a good time for anyone looking to get into homebrewing. Read on…
Mississippi Market Co-Op in St. Paul is teaming up with Northern Brewer to offer inexpensive brewing classes at Mississippi Market’s brand new kitchen classroom [...]

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There was a Strib Whistleblower story yesterday focusing on a local online home-brewing equipment retailer.  Don’t worry, it’s not your favorite home-brew supply store.  Check it out.

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Thanks for the reminder Dave!
The 32nd annual National Homebrewers Conference will be held June 17-19, 2010 in Minneapolis at the Sheraton Minneapolis South.
Last year’s conference sold out with a record number of 1,200 attendees! The Twin Cities is home to the St. Paul Homebrewers Club, the AHA’s Homebrew Club of the Year for two year’s [...]

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Homebrewers take note! Here’s the text of a note on the upcoming Upper Mississippi Mash-out. Aa lot of effort is put forth by local homebrewers to make this a great homebrew competition.
Registration for the 2010 Upper Mississippi Mash-out will open on December 28th and run until January 18th 2010.  There is still time to brew [...]

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[ November 22, 2009; 6:00 pm; ] Sunday, November 22nd, Triple Rock Social Club, Five Dollar Cover, Doors at 6

Gastro Non Grata 12 A Salute to Comfort Food and Cans

Dammit! It’s cold outside again. Why not come warm your cockels with Gastro Non Grata.

For our dozenth show we’re proud to have our first returning guest chef Landon Schoenfeld who has worked just [...]

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I was contacted by Peter, a local grower who is looking to expand into hops production. He is planning for a small acreage next season with the intention of selling direct to local homebrewers here in the Twin Cities area. To that end, He’s put together a web-based marketing survey directed towards homebrewers to get [...]

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Mike Hoops from Town Hall Brewery will be answering brewing questions live on www.kaxe.org Sat am from 10-noon in celebration of National Homebrew Day. Tune in on the radio 91.7FM Grand Rapids, 105.3 Bemidji, 89.9 Brainerd.

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