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Reminder – Social Event At Sociable Cider Werks

March 5, 2014

A quick reminder that the Social event at Sociable Cider Werks is happening Thursday, March 6th. The weather looks to be great and no snow storms will interrupt us this time!

Check out the calendar event for all the details!

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Announcement – Free Advanced Screening of Draft Day

March 5, 2014

Our President Emeritus, Michael Cote, has found another free advanced movie screening for us. Next Thursday, March 13, we have been invited to screen the movie Draft Day.

The calendar event has all the details, including the link and code to pick up your free passes!

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Style of the Month: California Common

March 5, 2014

By Steve Piatz

This article originally appeared in the April 2008 newsletter of the Minnesota Home Brewers Association

The MHBA Style of the Month is an opportunity to brew a particular style and join fellow club members in sharing, discussing and critiquing a particular style. Consider brewing this now and bringing it to the April club meeting to share and discuss!

This month the style of the month (SOTM) is for a California Common in preparation for the July meeting. Your California Common should take no more than seven to ten days for the primary fermentation step. Bottle conditioning will add a couple more weeks to the time required. Brewing your California Common before the end of March should give you sufficient time for your California Common to be ready to serve at the June meeting.

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Reminder: Sociable Cider Werks Social Event

February 26, 2014

Remember the Sociable Cider Werks Social event coming up this Thursday, March 6. If you haven’t been there yet, Sociable Cider Werks is one of NorthEast Minneapolis’ newest breweries. It produces hard ciders as well as beers! Come join us there to check them out.

Check the event page for more details.

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New: Renew your membership instantly online

February 26, 2014

Still haven’t renewed your 2014 MHBA dues? There is a brand new way to renew your dues instantly online. When you renew online, you get your membership card instantly via email, plus you have the option of renewing for 3 years at a discounted rate!

Go find out more about membership or renew your membership now!

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February 2014 Meeting Followup

February 26, 2014

On Saturday, February 15, the Minnesota Home Brewers Association met at Rock Bottom Brewery in Minneapolis. The primary focus of the meeting was to elect new leadership to run the club for the next year. In addition to this though, we had several fun extras!

MHBA-2014-02-1090176-2Michael Agnew was on hand to talk about his new book, Craft Beer for the Homebrewer, a collection of home brew recipes of commercial beers, directly from the professional craft brewers’ themselves!

As we were at Rock Bottom Brewery, we had to try some of their brews! They provided us with samples of four of their seasonal beers to share, discuss and talk about.

For the meat of the agenda, outgoing president, Michael Cote ran the elections and helped ensure we have some terrific leadership to help run the club for the upcoming year!

Here is the club leadership for the next year:

Board Members – Elected

MHBA-2014-02-FULL-1090194-2Board Members – Non-Elected

Other Leadership

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Announcement: Free Movie Screening next Wednesday

February 13, 2014

We have been invited to a free advanced screening of 3 Days To Kill, a new Kevin Costner film, this upcoming Wednesday. Anyone interested should check out the event page for more information and details on how to get your tickets.

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Cancelled due to bad weather!! Lucid Social Event this Thursday

February 12, 2014

A quick reminder that there is a Social Event at Lucid Brewing this coming Thursday. Check out the event page for all the details!

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Reminder: February Club Meeting this Saturday

February 12, 2014

Just a reminder that the February Club Meeting is this Saturday. We will be holding club leadership elections and Michael Agnew will be talking about his new book. Check out the February Club Meeting for all the details!

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Crafting a Nation Screening

February 12, 2014

Thanks to everyone who came out and joined us at Casket Cinema for the screening of Crafting a Nation. Our hosts, Mark Wojahn and Wilbur Ince, both said it was the most attended movie event they’ve ever done.

The film was very interesting and shot well. We had a nice showing of MHBA members and we had some pretty good beer as well.

The players were Wilbur Ince and Mark Wojahn – co-founders of the casket cinema and Brenden Harris, Director of Photography for Crafting a Nation. We also had a short discussion of the effort it takes to start a brewery in Minnesota by Brett Michlitsch and Lonnie Manresa.
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