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Upper Mississippi Mash-Out 2007

By on November 21, 2006in homebrew

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, judging at the Klub Haus in St. Paul
Jan. 27, “Jamaica in January” themed beer banquet and awards ceremony

Judge!
Judges and volunteers are pampered with an in-door “Pub Crawl,” a Brewpub Brewers Forum and the opportunity to pre-order growlers from regional brewpubs. It’s a lot of fun, and you can sign up now.

Banquet in the islands
Chef Manfred Krug is going tropical with an island-themed menu this year. “Let’s get together and feel all right” at the “Jamaica in January” banquet on Jan. 27. The cost is $30, and you can sign up now. The complete menu will be posted in the near future.

Special Events
Back by popular demand: the Eis-Anything category with its stained-glass trophy. Put the cold weather to practical use by doing ice versions of your beer, mead or cider creations. Multiple entries allowed. Also back is the New Entrant category. If you haven’t entered a beer contest before, this one is for you.

Everyone is sure to have a nICE time at the Mash-Out 2007.

December BYO: Rick Oftel’s “Super Cooler”

By on November 9, 2006in homebrew

Super Cooler, Dec. BYOThere’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 afternoon, rush hour traffic was slightly inconvenienced as a 1967 Wheel Horse lawn tractor and miniature tilt-bed trailer embarked on a 3-mile cooler retrieval mission. The rig, top speed of 6.5 mph, arrived safely at the scene.

Lest we forget, the St. Paul Homebrewers Club was featured in the November issue of BYO as well.

Congrats to all. Oh, and Rick, if you need help with consuming all of that beer, just drop us a line!

MNHBA Teach a Friend to Homebrew Day at Barley John’s

By on November 1, 2006in beer events, brewpubs, homebrew

From the Barley John’s mailing list:

Teach A Friend to Homebrew Day: Come one, come all to Barley John’s Brewpub in New Brighton on Saturday, November 4th, any time from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. The event is part of the American Homebrewers Association’s (AHA) national event, which is Teach A Friend To Homebrew Day. On that day, hundreds of interested parties across the country will discover just how easy it is to make quality craft beer at home. Free brewing demonstrations will begin periodically, so whenever people get there they will not be far from seeing a batch of homebrew started. This event is put on locally by the Minnesota Homebrewers Association.

There will be beginner’s brewing kits given away, so please come and bring that friend or sister-in-law who has always talked about maybe starting to homebrew

For more information, please contact John Longballa at jlongb@ties2.net, or go to the MN Homebrewers website, www.mnbrewers.com. We’ll see you at Barley John’s on November 4th!

Note: Barley Johns is not putting this event on, we are providing the parking lot space in which to host the event. For specific information contact the sponsors. Cheers!