posted Jan 20, 2010 10:09 AM by Mike Cleaver
Check out our own Curt Stock as he is featured, dare I say starring in this feature from KPHO, Arizona? This is a red letter day for SPHBC; Curt stars on TV and Kristen and Ron Pattinson have their book 1909! Beer style guide published. |
posted Jan 12, 2010 2:20 PM by Mike Cleaver
The Happy Gnome is hosting a Cask Beer Festival on March 20th 2010. Watch the Happy Gnome website for details. |
posted Jan 12, 2010 2:17 PM by Mike Cleaver
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There won't be a February meeting at the Happy Gnome. Come an help at Mash Out the weekend before!
The March and April meetings are OK. There won't be a May meeting at the Happy Gnome but we may have a big brew instead so watch here for details....
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posted Jan 11, 2010 11:09 AM by Mike Cleaver
Entries for UMMO are due by Feb 18th. Don't leave it too late. Go to Mash Out to enter your winning beer or mead, volunteer to judge or steward. Be a part of the nearly biggest home brew competition in the country. |
posted Jan 5, 2010 8:07 AM by Jeff Halvorson
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This is a reminder that we'll have our January meeting at the
Happy Gnome at 7pm, Tuesday the 5th. As the Upper Mississippi Mashout
registration is now open, we'll do a short tutorial on how to enter.
We'll also use this as a chance to give/get advice on any beers you
are unsure about or need to decide which category or subcategory to
enter.
If you're not familiar with BJCP style guidelines yet, you might want to look through before the meeting: http://www.bjcp.org/stylecenter.phpInfo on the next CoC from TechTalk:
"The Club Only competition coming up for February is English Brown Ale
and is hosted by The Impaling Alers. We're calling it "The Session
Challenge". Entry information is located at the AHA site and in the
current issue of Zymurgy. Entries are due at Larry's Brewing Supply on
or before Tuesday February 16th, 2010. (Larry's is closed on Sundays
and Mondays) Judging will be held on Saturday February 20th, 2010.
Rattle those kettles!" |
posted Dec 28, 2009 10:07 AM by Mike Cleaver
posted Dec 2, 2009 8:41 AM by Jeff Halvorson
There were lots of new faces at tonight's meeting.
Thanks
to Todd the plumber for the information about ventilating a basement
area for brewing indoors. Check the link under resources at left.
Kristen
showed us the difference between a kegged and bottle conditioned
Belgium style beer. If you are bottle conditioning use Danstar
Nottingham yeast, "it drops like a rock" (quote from Eric).
So
now we know that heather in a beer does not make it a Scottish ale!
There was no heather in Kris's Scottish beers; it was an example of a
making three beers from one mash, a method called gyling or
parti-gyling. 60/-,
70/-, 80/- or 90/- are not styles of beer, the shilling " /-" value was
a reference to the wholesale price of a 54 gallon hogshead of beer.
There more information about Shilling beers and recipes from Kristen at
Ron Pattinson's blog.
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posted Nov 9, 2009 12:23 PM by Jeff Halvorson
Get to work on an English brown ale (mild, northern English, or Southern English) for January/February. Due date is 2/10. |
posted Nov 7, 2009 6:10 AM by Jeff Halvorson
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Stop by Northern Brewer today to see SPHBC brew an IPA in the big brew system. We'll be out back.
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posted Nov 3, 2009 1:08 PM by Jeff Halvorson
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 This year, 2009 we held on to our claim of being the AHA Homebrew Club of the Year. The Ninkasi Award was won by Gordon Strong, our Ohio-based member for a second year running. Meadmaker of the Year honors also remained with SPHBC for the third year in a row, with Thomas Eibner taking the award this year for his cherry tupelo melomel.
Congrats to all club members for their help, participation, and beer entries!
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