Great story in today’s Strib about local hop growing efforts, with tons of insight by Minnesota homebrewers. Thanks to Don for bringing this to my attention.
Brewers hop to it.
The grow-your-own movement now extends to hops, as a worldwide shortage has prompted home brewers to add a new crop to their gardens.
By Bill Ward 
The Willamette vine made it; [...]

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If you’re a K-12 teacher and have thought about giving brewing a try get on over to Vine Park. During the month of August Vine Park is offering a 20% discount for all beers and wines brewed. Remember to play nice and don’t abuse this offer by asking them to apply this to [...]

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[ July 16, 2008; 6:00 pm; ] I ran into this on the Northern Brewer forum and thought it might be fun for some of you thinking about getting into homebrewing:
The masses have clamored, and we’ve answered the call. Northern Brewer has partnered with St. Paul’s Cooks of Crocus Hill to offer a full demonstration of brewing basics. [...]

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[ July 19, 2008; 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] My friend Erin forwarded this to me, and it looks pretty cool.
The Eco Impact of Beer
Twin Cities Green
2405 Hennepin Ave. S., Mpls
How green is your beer? Come to this workshop and compare the eco-footprints of larger beer companies, microbreweries and home-brewing. Expert brewers will also demonstrate how to brew your own beer. 

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To RSVP, please email [...]

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Minnesota once again cleaned up at the National Homebrewers Contest. St. Paul Homebrewers Club picked up Club of the Year, Steve Piatz won Meadmaker of the Year, and the many other homebrewers from Minnesota took home awards. Check the full list here.
Congrats!

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First off, we’re happy to share that Vine Park’s newest employee found out about the job through MNBeer.com. Keep it up and we’ll be the Monster.com of the local craft beer world… or something like that. Here’s another cool deal from VP:
We are offering a special change in our Wednesday night Brew Club offering. On [...]

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Yesterday was Stillwater’s 2nd Annual Brewers Bazaar, hosted by the Stillwater Sunrise Rotary Club.  For those of you who couldn’t make it, here’s a quick recap.
First of all, this event was lightly attended relative to many other local beer tasting events (still too new, I guess), so lines were short and attendees could spend time [...]

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Here’s a little note from Juno at Northern Brewer:
Northern Brewer has just received hop rhizomes (root cuttings) from Oregon! Now you can grow your own hops at home for use in beer or for decorative purposes. Stop by our retail store in St. Paul at 1150 Grand Avenue. Each rhizome is $5.99 and we [...]

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Nice story in the Strib yesterday highlighting the homebrew club in the North Metro…..
A club of home-brewers share full flavors and friendship at their montly meetings in Anoka 
The raspberry chocolate port wine being tasted so captivated Cheryl Kern that she turned to the maker and blurted: “Can I lick the bottle?” ¶ The port wine [...]

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[ March 15, 2008; 6:30 pm; ] Doug Hoverson will be doing a presentation on Minnesota brewing history and a book signing on  March 15th at 6:30 at McCann’s Food and Brew in St. Cloud. This event is part of the Cloudy Town Brewers’ March Mashness.

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Fresh beer from Minneapolis Town Hall Brewery…
Hey Kids,
Today we will release our Dortmunder Lager. Release 5-6….Look for this beer to replace our Golden Ale in the very near future……
Next Monday 3/10 we will release our Irish Red Ale, just in time for your St. Patrick’s Day celebration
Cheers,
Mike
P.s. Yes we are making the Pot of Gold [...]

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Speaking of BJCP… this is cool… in the most recent edition of the BJCP guidelines, a couple of Minnesota beers were added as good  commercial examples – 14A. English IPA – Summit IPA, and 14C. Imperial IPA – Surly Furious. Thanks to Kris England, BJCP Continuing Education Director, for the info.

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If so you might want to think about entering it in Samuel Adams 2008 American Homebrew Contest.
Here’s your chance to have your homebrew brewed, packaged and nationally distributed in the 2009 Samuel Adams LongShot package! It’s simple. Well, not really. You will have to brew a winning entry, send it in to face a panel [...]

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Here’s some info from Vine Park. Prague in Fall 08! Of course, lots more info at their site.
Quick Update! Last winter we predicted a Spring arrival for our growlers and then found we had a few more hurdles to clear. We have been working diligently with the City of St Paul and our path is [...]

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Jon over at Stub & Herbs is looking for some help from homebrewers to pair up with brewery reps to discuss beer styles and compare homebrewed and commercial versions of different styles of beer. Read on:
Stub and Herb’s is starting a monthly beer tasting and beer education in February. We are working on our schedule [...]

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