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Fundraising for East Side Neighborhood Services

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ESNS provides the Nordeast Brewers Alliance with our monthly meeting space, as well as ad-hoc space for other needs. In appreciation of their generosity, each year we give back to ESNS by donating a portion of our homebrew competition’s proceeds.

ESNS has been met with tough times recently and giving is as important as ever. Struggles through the pandemic, loss of funding, and cuts in food shelf programs have impacted the century-old community organization to its core.

With these challenges, we feel it’s necessary to give back as much as we can. As a result, we are kicking off a fundraising drive for ESNS. To make your donation go further, for each dollar YOU donate, the Nordeast Brewers Alliance will match that dollar up to a combined total of $2,000. This event will run throughout the month of March 2022.

Donate today at the Go Fund Me page!

Social media shares can also help spread the word and share the mission.

Use this link to share today! https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-esns-support-minneapolis-and-hennepin-county

Thank you for your support.

Welcome to 2021

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Here we are, 2020 in the rearview and a new decade in front of us. We are still burdened by the weight of a global pandemic, political contentiousness, and climate change, but we push forward and persevere like we always do. We work to embrace the good, love, and happiness with our friends, family, and, our hobbies.

The Nordeast Brewers Alliance is here for the hobby, my personal love of the brewing hobby is how it’s moldable to the desires of each individual. Focus on the science or the art. Finding joy in the process, or the product. Exploring the limits, or sticking to the classics. Somedays I embrace the art, the product, and the exploration of beer and the hobby. Other days it’s the science, the process, and the classics. This range of how, why, and what to brew is up to each brewer. Perhaps this 9+ months of isolation has given you the opportunity to focus your goals, produce the beer you desire, and in the way you desire to produce it. If it hasn’t because you are a front line worker or first responder, thank you for your hard work and sacrifice.

The NBA enters 2021 with a lot of hope. The hope of holding regular in-person meetings, the hope of big group brews, the hope of bigger experiments, and education topics. I am really excited to execute our large-scale experiments. Specifically, our yeast experiment where we produce 100 gallons of wort and have 20 brewers ferment that wort with a different yeast.

What are you hopeful for? What are your brew goals for 2021? How can the NBA help? If you are an existing member be sure to renew. If you aren’t a member yet you can click on the NBA link on the right to get signed up. I hope to see you all in 2021, cheers to brewing, cheers to beer and cheers to you!

Nordeast Brewers Alliance Big Brew Day at Northern Brewer Mpls

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Join the club and Northern Brewer for Big Brew Day to celebrate National Homebrew Day!

When: 10:00 AM, Saturday May 7, 2016
Where: Northern Brewer Minneapolis, 6021 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55419she4

Bring your mobile brew system for an on-premise brew day. Bring a chair, a glass, and a cooler of homebrew to share. Events like these are a blast, brewing with friends is fun and educational. Show off your newest DIY or get inspirations from somebody else for your next build. The club will have beer on tap and the club brew system fired up. We hope to see you all there!

 

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BAMF Meeting 5 June 2012

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Here’s what went down at the June BAMF meeting, held at Pracna.

Atttendance: Andrew N, Grant W, Nathan G, Tim S, Tyler B, Steve M, Matt P, Nick P

Meeting location

Due to recent events, for the time being we cannot have our all-club meetings at Pracna since we cannot serve homebrew there.  But don’t fret!  We have a substitute location!  The East Side Neighborhood building is available for us to use, free of charge.  This is also the location of the Single Hop Experiment in July.  The location will provide with ample space and a kitchen.  The downside is that we will not have a full selection of tap beers, so tastings may become part of the entire meeting.  If someone knows of another bar location that would welcome us, we are not closing the door to that possibility.

Farmers Market Update:

Our first weekend went incredibly well, and we reached out and had seven new members join.  Check out some pictures Dan took here  [fixed link].  Over the next three weekends, we want to continue our recruitment efforts, so if anyone else wants to help out, let us know on the email threads. 

June 30th BBQ update:

Grant will be sending out an email form to fill out so we can get a head count, as well as determine the entries for our <6% contest.  Please be sure to respond ASAP!  Grant will also be updating the blog with how we are judging the contest so there aren’t any questions. 

The majority of food for this BBQ will be paid for by club funds.  However, if you want to bring a dish to show off your cooking prowess, or just want to help out, please do. 

Reminder for the event (4:00pm – ??), it is for members and family/significant others.  If you want to bring a bunch of people, they will need to become members.  Also, NO DOGS!  There will be one there who is super friendly with people, but doesn’t like to share his territory.

SHE (Single Hop Experiment):

Due to the popularity this event should have, it is going to be for members only and the select pro brewers that have already been invited.  If all members show up, we are looking at nearly 40 people as it is.  If you know someone who really wants to come to the meeting, get them to sign up as a member and reap the rewards! 

Due to the number of people who will want to try the many beers, plan on bringing at least 12-12oz. bottles or any 144oz equivalent.  The last thing we want is to run out of samples.  We will be planning on 2oz pours for samples.

Since we will not be at a restaurant and we will be consuming copious samples of amazing beer, we will need food.  We decided to turn this event into a potluck dinner as well.  This is the most effective way to feed the troops.  A sign-up sheet will be available at the BBQ, and then on the Google Groups thread thereafter.

Big River Brewfest Homebrew Competition:

A committee meeting will be set up soon; we are still welcoming more members who want to help with this.  Nick P is the committee chair, and there is way too much for one person to do.  It looks like the judging will take place prior to the brewfest, and we will use the brewfest to announce the winners. 

At this point, the website is under development, but start spreading the word to other homebrewers via forums, emails, whatever you have at your disposal!

Jockey Box:

As a future endeavor, the club will pursue a larger, 4+ tap jockey box to have for events and club use.  The cost is probably around $300 for this creation, which may prohibit us from having one on hand for a while.  Until then, if anyone wants to build one themselves and let the club use it…

Monumental news regarding Kevin!

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Kevin aka K-Swiss… FINALLY PAID AND IS OFFICIALLY IN ON THE FIRST NORDEAST BARREL PROJECT!

He even brewed his batch…. so for all of you that haven’t brewed yet…step it up….son.

In other news…with Steve Scott picking up his ingredients from me about an hour ago….ALL of the ingredients for the barrel project have been distributed! 50 gallons are in primary as I write this with 20 more gallons yet to be brewed!

Boom goes the dynamite!