Category: homebrew

From the White House to Your House!

By on September 5, 2012in general beer, homebrew

Homebrewing has reached the White House! For the first time ever, homebrewing is happening on a regular basis at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Regardless of your politics, if you’re a homebrewer or ever thought about homebrewing – that’s saying a lot about the hobby that 35 years ago was still illegal in our country.

A few days ago (and after much popular demand), the White House released two of its recipes to the public – a Honey Ale and Honey Porter. Now you can brew these White House Ales in your own home using recipe kits exclusively from Northern Brewer.

All-Grain Brewing with John Palmer @ NB MPLS

By on August 24, 2012in beer education, homebrew, video

This is one is for the homebrewers AND anyone that thinks they’d like to get into all-grain brewing.“How to Brew” author John Palmer stops by Northern Brewer Minneapolis to brew an all-grain batch of a very special recipe. In this Northern Brewer video, Palmer discusses his techniques for adding salts to brew water, mashing, batch sparging (versus fly sparging), chilling and fermentation. It’s a full-blown brew day with one of homebrewing’s most influential people. Grab a pint and enjoy the show.

Enter Byggvir’s Big Beer Cup!

By on August 8, 2012in Features, homebrew
There’s still a little time to submit beer, mead and cider for this years Biggvir’s Big Beer Cup homebrew competition at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival! Read on for details from Gera. Of note, this year the best beer of the contest will be brewed by Mike Hoops at Minneapolis Town Hall Brewery!
There is still time to enter your beers, meads, and ciders in Byggvir’s Big Beer Cup.  We are accepting entries until store closing times on Sunday, August 12th at both Northern Brewers, Midwest, Brew & Grow, and Still H20.  This year, we are very excited that Mike Hoops has agreed to brew the best beer of the contest at Town Hall (more details are on the website)!
We already have more entries than last years, so we could also use more judges and stewards to help out at the contest.  The judging will be onsite at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival on Saturday, August 25 & Sunday, August 26.  You get into the Fest for free on the day you help out and we make sure you have plenty of time to enjoy the sights.  We welcome judges of all skill levels and will pair inexperienced judges with those who have BJCP rank.  This contest is registered with the AHA/BJCP.
To enter or sign up to help out: www.rennfestbeercup.com.
Please email me if you have any questions: gera_latour@hotmail.com.
Hope to see you there!
Gera Exire LaTour
Co-organizer, Byggvir’s Big Beer Cup

Nordeast Big Rive Homebrew Competiton

By on August 7, 2012in homebrew

Registration is OPEN for the Nordeast Big River Homebrew Competition. From Aug 1 – Sep 1 you can register for this BJCP/AHA competition being held in Nordeast Minneapolis!

Sponsored by the Nordeast Brewers Alliance, in conjunction with the 2nd annual NordeastBig River Brew Fest, the competition  is open to all BJCP beer styles, as well as two special categories: 100% Brett (Beers brewed with only Brettanomyces) and American Wild Ale. This competition has an emphasis on the funk!

Entries are $7 each, and can be dropped off at Northern Brewer or Midwest Supplies in Minneapolis before September 15.

Register at nordeasthbc.brewcompetition.com. Judges and stewards are needed aswell. Contact tylerabye@gmail.com with any questions.

Deschutes Base Camp Events in Minnesota July 20-28th

By on July 19, 2012in bars/restaurants, beer dinners, beer events, homebrew

After a short stint in the Fargo/Moorhead area, Deschutes’ Base Camp (and of course Woody) head to St. Cloud on Friday for a handful of events and then off to the Twin Cities starting Saturday, making appearances at The Beer Dabbler & Tiffany’s and continuing on throughout the Twin Cities, hitting bars, restaurants, homebrew shops like Northern Brewer and Beer stores. For the complete list of events, check out the press release PDF..

Woody with friends from SockGuy (who, by the way, make great custom cycling socks).