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Once again The Growler is soliciting votes for their “It’s-Kind-of-a-big-deal” awards. The past two years the Minnesota Home Brewers Association has taken best Homebrew club and we need your help winning again! Please go vote…and ask your friends to vote for us too! 
Due to a scheduling conflict we have had to reschedule our October meeting (previously October 11th). Many of you may have already read of this change in the weekly newsletter. Below is additional information:
Come out to Lucid Brewing on Saturday, October 18th from noon to 3:00 pm. We will be having a short discussion from our own Andy Ruhland, who is the Brewer/Cellarmaster at Lucid. Andy has the privilege of scoring an almost perfect score of 98 on his Gose (Lucid’s Goslar) at the 2014 World Beer Championship. He’ll discuss his research behind this old German style, wheat ale. We’ll have some Goslar to sample and educate your palate, while you listen to Andy discuss his process in creating this near perfect beer.
Homebrew beer, mead and cider is welcome and encouraged!
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We will be doing another Club Cider Buy of fresh-pressed, unpasteurized cider for fermenting this year at Barley John’s during Learn to Homebrew Day on November 8th. As usual we will try to arrive near the beginning of the event, but these things always take longer than expected so if you are on a tight schedule please find someone else to take care of your pickup, and let the coordinator know in advance.
The price will be $4 a gallon and you will need to supply your own 5 gallon vessel(s), ideally 5+ gallon buckets. If you are interested in cider, please let me know how much you would like in 5 gallon quantities by emailing me directly, or using the form below.
2013 MHBA Cider Buy
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Due to an unfortunate scheduling conflict, our October meeting at Fulton will be delayed one week, until October 18th from 12:00 noon until 3:00pm. We are working on a couple special items for the 18th meeting and will have more information next week.
We apologize for the delay and any confusion this may have caused.
Read MoreThis year’s Byggvir’s Big Beer Cup was the 8th annual event, hosted at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival. There were over 70 volunteers that worked tirelessly to make the competition a success. This year there were nearly 300 entries received. Thanks to everyone who entered! 
Congratulations to everyone who places in this year’s Byggvir’s Big Beer Cup! Here are the winners from the MHBA
Read MoreA quick collection of notes this week.
Once again this year the Minnesota Home Brewers Asociation will have a cider buy. We will be taking reservations for fresh-pressed, unpasteurized apple cider, appropriate for fermenting. Look for more details coming up in the next few weeks.
Itching to get your beers submitted to another homebrew competition? Check out the Nordeast Big River Homebrew Competition, organized by the Nordeast Brewers Alliance! Entries are due by this Sunday, the 28th.
Read MoreByggvir’s Big Beer Cup at the Rennisance Festival is happening this weekend. Have plans and can’t make it to the festival to volunteer? Come out to Town Hall Brewery on Wednesday, September 24 at 6:30 for the Awards announcement live! One beer and one cider or mead will each be selected to be brewed by Mike Hoops from Town Hall Brewery and Tim Roets from Sponsel’s Minnesota Harvest Orchard Winery in Jordan, respectively.
Read MoreJust a quick reminder about this Saturday’s meeting at Day Block Brewing in Minneapolis.
Day Block is located in a cool historic building next to Grumpy’s and our group will be hanging out in the tap room. Assistant Brewer, Dan Banks, will be available for tours from 1-3 pm. They have great beer and food, and we should have a server or two just for our group, so I hope you can join us. (There is another event happening that day, but home brew is welcome as long as it is served discreetly.)
Read MoreByggvir’s Big Beer Cup, the homebrew competition sponsored by the Minnesota Home Brewers Association and happening at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival later this month, is still looking for some volunteers to steward and judge. No matter if you have years of experience or have never helped at a homebrew competition, this is the event for you. Go sign up on the Byggvir’s Big Beer Cup, get in to the festival for free and help out at a fantastic homebrew competition!
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Congratulations to all the Minnesota Home Brewers Association winners at the 2014 Minnesota State Fair Homebrew Competition.
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