All posts by Aaron De Boer

NBA Winter Party/High Gravity Comp/Officer Election

January 27, 2016events, homebrewing, meeting recapsAaron De Boer

Thanks to everyone that came out to the Winter Party this last weekend, it was a great time.

We had three beers on tap, a Mild, Flanders Red from our barrel project, and an IPA made on our club system. The food members brought was plentiful and excellent, we showed again that great brewers can also make great food.

Nathan G. brought a bunch of specialty grain he picked up from Bauhaus that members were free to take. There was Light Crystal, Dark Crystal, Pale Rye, Chocolate Rye and Pale Chocolate. Most of it went home with members, which was awesome. Included in the grain from Bauhaus was a large amount of base grain, which we will use to make beer on the club system!

Congratulations to Carl Allen for winning the High Gravity Competition with an 11% Stout.

Congratulations Tyler Bye for winning the election to the Director of Finance position. Tyler has been a member since 2011 and previously held the Director of Ops position. Its great to have his knowledge, experience and dedication back in a leadership role in the club.

Be sure to re-new your membership. You can do so online here: Join or Re-new Today! or you can re-new in person at our next meeting, February 18th, 7pm at Northern Brewer Minneapolis. We will see you then!

2015 Year in Pictures

January 18, 2016UncategorizedAaron De Boer

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The NBA 2016 winter party is nigh

January 10, 2016annual review, events, homebrewingAaron De Boer

Each year in January we host a party where members bring food and beer, we hang out, have a high gravity club competition and vote on officers.

Active 2015 club members are invited. This is your best chance to renew your membership to maintain your homebrew store and beer store discounts. Check your email inbox for more info. The NBA leadership looks forward to partying with you all!

FYI, this is in place of the Janurary meeting, so no Thursday night meeting this month.

2015:

December Monthly Meeting Thursday the 17th, 7 PM @ ESNS

December 15, 2015upcoming meetingsAaron De Boer

Grab a couple bottles, a tasting glass and your favorite beer related shirt and join us – 7pm @ Eastside Neighborhood Service – 1700 NE 2nd St, Minneapolis, MN 55413

We will talk about the upcoming barrel fill, the winter party, reminisce of 2015 and what to look forward to in 2016. We hope to see you there. Prost!

October Monthly Meeting Thursday the 15th, 7 PM @ ESNS

October 15, 2015barrel project, homebrewing, upcoming meetingsAaron De Boer

Calling all homebrewers and beer lovers to East Side Neighborhood Services’ main room to join us for our October meeting. We will have beer on tap and news about previous, upcoming and future events. We look forward to seeing you all there, Prost!

September Monthly Meeting Thursday the 17th, 7 PM @ ESNS

September 17, 2015education, events, homebrewing, upcoming meetingsAaron De Boer

Join us at the East Side Neighborhood Services main room for our September monthly meeting @7PM. We will be talking about all of the great events we have coming up in the next two months and tasting 10 surly wort rally beers that our members fermented. This should be awesome as brewers got really creative with these beers!

Brewer	Yeast	Additions?
Tyler Bye	Wyeast Abbey Ale II	2lbs dried Apricots
Aaron Bach	PC Farmhouse	3lbs Peaches
Aaron De Boer	Brett B and Brett C	60oz Canned Boysenberries
Jed Hicks	German Ale	4 Peeled and Cored Pineapples
Perrin Bishop-Wright	California Ale	Dry Hopped
Chad Oesterreich	Belgian High Gravity
Nick Pederson	French Saison	5 lbs of Marquette Grapes (st. croix vineyards)
Adrian Swanson	PC Farmhouse
Richard Pizarro	French Saison	6 lbs plums

August Monthly Meeting Thursday August 20th, 7 PM @ ESNS

August 20, 2015education, homebrewing, upcoming meetingsAaron De Boer

meeting We are back to our regularly scheduled programming kids. 7:00 PM at East Side Neighborhood Services, 1700 2nd St NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413.

We will be sharing beer, discussing current and future projects and experiments. As well as an education on how to fill out a beer scoring sheet by a BJCP Judge.

Bring a sample glass and some beer to share. We hope to see you there!

Cheers!

Big River Homebrew Competition 2015

July 10, 2015events, homebrewingAaron De Boer

The Nordeast Brewers Alliance, in coordination with Eastside Neighborhood Services and their Big River Brewfest, are proud to put on the 4th annual Nordeast Big River Homebrew Competition.

Our AHA/BJCP sanctioned homebrew competition is in its 4th year and is planned to be bigger than ever. A lower entry free, twice as many drop off locations and a lot of advertising will mean more participants and more beer. Not to mention nationally recognized BJCP judges and a great judging location provided by ESNS.

Check out the competition website for more information and get those beers brewed and packaged for Northeast Minneapolis’ premier homebrew competition.

http://nordeasthbc.brewcompetition.com/

2015 Single Hop Tasting @ Northgate Brewing

June 15, 2015events, upcoming meetingsAaron De Boer

This Tuesday we bring our beer back to the place it was born.

On May 2nd Tuck, Northgate’s headbrewer, mashed up a wort for 25 brewers to apply a single hop to. From Ahtanum to Zythos, members chose a hop to showcase in this IPA.

These beers will be served at a private event this Tuesday at Northgate brewing. Doors open at 6:30 with the tasting starting at 6:45.

Pizza and other items will be ordered from parkway pizza. We will be collecting $10 at the door to cover the cost. Please bring cash.

A hug thanks goes out to Northgate, specifically Adam, Tuck and Barb, as well as all of the NBA brewers.

We hope to see everyone at Northgate this Tuesday.

FYI: This event is our monthly meeting. There will NOT be a meeting at ESNS on Thursday.

May Agenda – Thursday 5-21, 7 PM @ ESNS

May 20, 2015UncategorizedAaron De Boer

Spring is here, but you could have fooled me that last couple of days, but luckily we should have excellent weather Thursday for this month’s meeting. Although when is the weather bad for drinking beer!?

Onto the agenda:

Intro