From Northern Brewer’s mailing list:
WINTER BEER KITS ON SALE
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It’s real wintery right now in Minnesota, but it will soon be spring!
This is your last chance to brew your winter ales for consumption
in sub-freezing weather! That’s why we are running a sale right now
on a few extract beer kits. For a limited time, save on the […]

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I finally broke down and joined the Minnesota Home Brewer’s Association this weekend. I’ve been brewing for over two years and figured it was high time I get involved in a club, meet more brewers and learn from their experience (and of course, share my own). So I joined the MHBA on Saturday and attended […]

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“Mashout attracts hundreds of home brewers to Twin Cities”

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First and foremost, here are the results of 2007’s Upper Mississippi Mash-Out.
I volunteered as a steward on Friday evening and assisted three judges who were judging Belgian Strong Ales (Blondes, Dubbels, Tripels, Golden Strong and Dark Strong). I think I took my role a little too seriously, attempting to avoid any stupid mistakes and hoping […]

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The Great Northern Brew-Ha-Ha (February 9th & 10th) is currently accepting entries until January 29th. You can enter online at
http://www.northernalestars.org/greatnorthernbrewhaha.html
You can bring your entries to the Upper Mississippi Mash-Out and they will be transported to Duluth for FREE!
Judges and Stewards are needed. Register to judge or steward online at http://www.northernalestars.org/greatnorthernbrewhaha.html
You can find entry details along […]

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BEER BANQUET DEADLINE
Saturday, Jan 13 - We only have room for 100 people, most of the seats are already gone.  This dinner will entail NINE entrees, TWO desserts, and COUNTLESS varieties of all the beer you can drink, including a re-brewing of last year’s Best of Show Kolsch, re-brewed by Rick Oftel of the Garden […]

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The Northern Ale Stars Homebrewers Guild is proud to announce the 2007 Great Northern Brew-Ha-Ha is open for business and accepting entries!
- It’s The Return of Homebrew Competition to Northern Minnesota and Northern Wisconsin!
- A Qualifying Event for the Midwest Home Brewer of the Year Circuit!
- Gain Valuable BJCP Judging Points (especially all you […]

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Yes, another late post…
The January issue of THE BOILER, the newsletter of the Minnesota Home Brewers Association, is now online at: http://www.mnbrewers.com/newsletters/2007/2007_01.pdf
Take note: Their article on Winterfest mentions that the attending breweries will include Rock Bottom, Herkimer, Fitger’s, Barley John’s, Town Hall, Summit, Brau Brothers, Mantorville, O’Hara’s, Surly, Great Waters and August Schell. We can […]

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Register now. I’m going to… Assuming my most recent batches of beer are as good as I’d hoped that they’d be, I’ll be entering a couple of beers. This will be my first competition. I’ve also signed up to volunteer, so that’ll be a first as well. More info:
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN for members of […]

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Here’s a sweet deal from our friends in St. Paul at Northern Brewer:
WYEAST ON SALE!
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Due to an ordering mistake, we have all our refrigerators stuffed
to the brim with lots of pure, fresh Wyeast XL Activator Packs. And
guess what? We’re getting thousands more next week, too! Please help
us make room by stocking up on Wyeast this […]

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Ugh. Sorry. Another bad joke. That being said, we here at MNBeer.com advocate giving money, gifts or your time to shelters, food shelves, Empty Bowls, etc. ’tis the season, after all.
On a less-needy level, organizers of the Upper Mississippi Mashout are seeking lodging for beer judges for January’s event. I THINK, I’m going to enter […]

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Download the December issue of the Boiler, Minnesota Home Brewer’s Association newsletter, today.

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[ November 24, 2006; 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. ] Friday looks to be a good day for shopping… homebrew shopping, of course. Northern Brewer is having a sale!
Friday, November 24th , 2006

When from 8:00 AM to 5 PM (We’ll be closing early!)

8:00 to 9:00AM Early Bird Special - 20% Off Total Purchase*

9:00 AM to 10:00 AM - 15% Off Total Purchase*

10:00 AM to 5:00 […]

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It’s coming…
Members of the St. Paul and MHBA clubs:
Visit the Mash-Out Web pagehttp://www.mnbrewers.com/mashout for details on one of the top homebrew contests in the country - our own! The Mash-Out offers fabulous prizes for every winner and hand-made wooden chalices for best-of-show winners in beer, mead and cider categories.
Key Dates:
Jan. 1-13, entries accepted
Jan. 26-27, […]

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There’s a great piece in the December issue of BYO by a Minnesota homebrewer, Rick Oftel, who modified a discarded Pepsi cooler to create a great cooler/keggerator that makes this homebrewer jealous (my two-tap, two-keg Sanyo fridge just doesn’t measure up). This is great… it reads like something out of A Prairie Home Companion…
On Wednesday […]

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