Blatantly stolen from the St. Paul Homebrewers Club website:

Have your beers, meads, or ciders won at UMMO? Minnesota State Fair? AHA Nationals? Or at another local or national contest? Submit your winning recipes to the MN recipe book project!

At the end of last year, Gera Exire La Tour of the MhBA submitted a request and received a grant from BJCP to design a local (Minnesota) recipe book with content from the numerous quality brewers (you) that we have in this state.

This project will ideally consist of recipes from local brewers that have won either local or national awards. It will be arranged by each of the 28 BJCP categories and the final product will be a printed book which can be used for reference in your brewery.

Gera has requested SPHBC members to please email any winning recipe(s) you wish to share (with brewer information and a list of awards that the recipe has won) to beer.recipe.book@hotmail.com.

More information about this project and a sample recipe form can be found at
http://www.stitzel.com/recipebook.

Yes, the St. Paul Homebrewer’s Club will be hosting another “big brew” outside of Northern Brewer on Sunday as part of Grand Old Day.

Yup. City Pages Beer Festival starts at 5:00pm tonight. Anyone going?

City Pages Beer Festival, now in its 14th year, is one of the largest beer festivals in the upper Midwest! The festival features over 100 different beers, food and fun!

Admission includes all beer samples!
Must be 21 or older to participate in tasting.

$25 advance – $28 at the door – $8 designated driver ticket

Yes, here it is in all of its glory, our first award & a matching window cling. Apparently, one can place the window cling in a window, be spotted by undercover City Pages agents and be entered into a drawing to win a year of free advertising. Of course since MNBeer.com is more of a virtual outfit, I have no choice but to encourage the City Pages agents to drive by my house, or, at the very least, accept the above photo as proof that the cling is indeed posted in our “place of business.”

As much as we might joke about things, it is an honor, and we fully expect that next year we’ll be considered for “best villian.”

Pssst… Coffee Bender (Surly), Blue Nile… probably gone before the weekend…