Our BJCP/AHA sanctioned competition is on us, and now is the time to get your account registered in preparation for the entry window to open on November 1st.
Drop off deadline is November 30th, so get those comp beers brewed, and your beers entered.
If you are able to help Judge or Steward we would really appreciate it.
So, join us for a quality competition and a fun time. Cheers!
Sign up here: https://nordeasthbc.brewcompetition.com
2017 Wrapped up with a bang for the Nordeast Brewers Alliance!
Let’s start with the Nordeast Brewers Alliance Homebrew competition – congratulations to all of the participants and winners. The competition this year was our largest yet, with 180 entries. A special thank you to our judges, volunteers, and sponsors that made this year a success!
The NBA was also n
amed Growler Magazine’s “Kind of a Big Deal” Homebrew Club of the Year!
To wrap up 2017 we had our monthly meeting. We had a great educational discussion on brewing with wood, highlighted with white ash, maple, and sassafras.
Along with some festive fun, there will be some great things to look forward to in 2018 – including quarterly club brews on the club system, and group brews with members. Look for those sign-up sheets starting in January.
And to kick off 2018, we will have our Winter Party and high-gravity club comp on January 20.
I hope everyone got their leaves raked this weekend, because:
Thursday, November 16, is our monthly meeting at ESNS, 7pm. Our education topic will be “off flavors.” Bring tasting glasses and some brew for what should be a great session.
Saturday, November 18, we will be at the grand re-opening of Northern Brewer Minneapolis. We will have the club system going for 20gal of a Winter Warmer, and hopefully the classroom system for 10gal of a Brown Ale. The club will also be sharing our beers with the home brewing community there. If you would like to share, here is the sign-up list.
You can also still register for the NBA Homebrew Competition! Make sure you are registered and have your entries at the drop-off locations by the 27th.
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astly, the NBA is getting internet famous! Carl, Chris, and Aaron spent time with Chip for an episode of Chop N Brew, tasting a handful of beers featuring Weyermann® Barke® Vienna Malt. Check it, and share it with your social networks.
October was another busy month for the Nordeast Brewers Alliance!
NBA Tasting Notes
October 7th was the Big River Brew Fest at ESNS, and we had a great showing!
Monthly meeting
October 19th was our monthly meeting, with special hop growing presentation from Mark Catlin.
This was a great learning experience while we enjoyed club beers that featured home-grown hops. We are also excited to partner with Mark to conduct sensory testing of his hops in our beers!
Friends of the NBA
October 20th saw NBAers descend on Surly for Darkness Day eve fun.
And we wrapped up tasting beers brewed with Barke Vienna Malt for a Chop N Brew segment – look for that to come in the near-ish future!
November is building up as well, headlined by the NBA Homebrew competition entries opening October 30th and closing November 27th.
Also, don’t forget about the merch – get it before it runs out!
-New T-Shirts – $15
-Old T-Shirts – $10
-Hats – $10
-Buy any two items and get $5 off.
As we move into the end of the calendar year, there are a few more events to watch out for:
November Monthly meeting with the planned education topic of off flavors. We will have tasting kits to help identify specific off flavors in your beer, and what some potential solutions may be.
January is the NBA winter party. Our meeting in January our yearly kick off party were we gather to share food and beer, vote for officers and renew memberships. We also run our club high-gravity competition. The rules are simple, an 8+% beer brewed in 2017. The competition is pretty free form being run in a ‘which-beer-to-do-you-like-
The Minneapolis Norther Brewer retail location is also going to be remodeled. The store will be closed from October 30th – November 10th with a Grand Re-Opening on November 18th.
Thanks to everybody that came out to the meeting this month. We had a great turnout, lots of beer and a fun education topic.
The August monthly meeting will be Thursday, August 17th, at EastSide Neighborhood Services at 7pm.
This month’s educational topic will be deep dive into Aroma Training!
We will also discuss upcoming events:
Bring a tasting glass and some homebrew to share, if you don’t have any homebrew ready, don’t sweat it, just bring a glass. If you feel compelled to bring beer grab something new or interesting from the commercially available options at your local purveyor.
It’s nearly here and we are very excited for Homebrew Con to return to the Twin Cities.
Come on down and celebrate with NBA members, Northgate, Married To My Beer, Natedogs, Rahr/BSG and Northern Brewer at the area’s premier pub! There will be some pro-am collaboration beers on tap as well as NorthGate’s fantastic libations! $2 from each sale of collaboration beer goes to benefit Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy research and treatment. We will also be raffling off homebrew items donated by Northern Brewer.
The event is free and open to all. Beer and food are pay-as-you-go.
Chop & Brew and Brülosophy are teaming up to host the Chop & Brü Prefunk Party at Insight Brewing in Northeast Minneapolis the night before the conference begins.
A contingent of NBA members will be in attendance.
https://www.homebrewcon.org/week-event/chop-bru-prefunk-party-insight-brewing/
Thursday is the first true day of the conference with check in, seminars, the keynote and kick-off party.
The NBA will be serving beer two ways on Thursday. First at the Yakima Valley Hops expo booth, we will be server six different beers made with YVH hops all through the conference. Then from 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm we will will be pour a selection of beers at the social club. Stop by for a preview of the barrel beers we will have at Club Night.
The homebrew expo, social club and education sessions presentations will be jamming. Then the main event, club night. We have built a great booth and will have 12 different beers on tap to share. We will also be serving Chop and Brew beers at our booth, it should be a blast!
The beat goes, check out NBA member Sachin “Chino” Darji’s session “Brewing When You Have No Time”. The evening finishes up with the National Homebrew Competition: Award Ceremony and then the newly created Knockout Party.
Check out the Homebrew Con website for more info.
https://www.homebrewcon.org/schedule/conference-overview/
https://www.homebrewcon.org/schedule/sessions/
The countdown to HomeBrewCon has started, and there is a lot going on!
Big Brew Day
May 6 we had a great time participating in the AHA’s Big Brew Day. The NBA commandeered the parking lot at Norther Brewer Minneapolis.
With 6+ batches being brewed it was a great day of brewing, brats, and talking bier. It was also a great chance to see a couple of variations on 3 vessel and brew-in-a-bag techniques, with and without pumps. Thank you to Northern Brewer for supplying the base malts for the Big Brew Day recipes.
Booth prep for Club Night
The prep for NBA’s participation at HomeBrewCon is in full swing. From commemorative NBA t-shirts to the booth for Club Night – there has not been a shortage of activity. The booth with have an industrial look to it, and will be able to be used at other events as well. We even constructed it so it can fold to fit into most SUVs.
May Monthly Meeting
The May Monthly Meeting was help at the EastSide Neighborhood Services on May 18th. The educational topic was Patagonia Malt and featured samples of beers made with malt from the end of the earth.
Upcoming Events
Club Night tasting: June 1 – EastSide Neighborhood Services
Bring your beers (44oz works) for the committee to sample and give the thumbs up/down to be served at the Con.
Single Hop with Northgate: June 3 – Northgate Brewing Company
We will be at Northgate on June 3rd for the Single Hop experiment. Northgate will supply the wort, you supply the hops. Did you sign up? Check the google group for info.
Need more Northgate? Yes you do! Get the week of HBC started right with the NBA/Northgate party June 13th.
NBA HomeBrewCon t-shirt pre-orders. Make sure you get one by ordering now!
We started the month as we do with a Taproom Takeover at Urban Growler. Turn out was low but its still good to have people come out to support our local businesses.
Rahr and BSG invited us out to Rahr Malting facilities for a tour. We had a few beers at the Stube and then toured the campus. It was amazing to see acres of barley going through the malting processes.
This month’s meeting will be held at Northern Brewer Minneapolis!
The educational topic this month with be MALT with our friends from BSG and Rahr.
Don’t miss it!
7:00pm
Northern Brewer
6021 Lyndale Ave S
Minneapolis MN 55419