Hey everyone.
I am sure you have seen the emails and the flyers. This weekend, Byggvir's Big Beer Cup contest will be out at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival. Although we are not able to accept any more judges or stewards, if you are out at the Fest, please stop by and say hello (sorry, we can give out samples though). We are in the Blue Lion tent from about 11 am to 4 pm on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.
On Monday, September 1st, the Best of Show judging will be at noon. Following the BOS, we WILL announce the winning entries in each category. Score sheets and prizes can be picked up on site after the awards ceremony (also in the Blue Lion tent). Everything else will be sent out early next week.
We will also be hosting brewing demonstrations at both 10:30 am and 3:30 pm on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.
Huzzah!
Gera
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I received some information about an interesting competition.
I tried sending some attachments, but it's too big for the mail distribution
system.
You can go to the following for information:
www.breworganic.com/competition
//Mike Behrendt
MGBrew(a)comcast.net
Congratulations BOS winners!
BEST OF SHOW
First Place BOS- $100 gift certifcate14.B. American IPA Piston Pale Ale Tim Cichon Stillwater, MN Saint Croix Valley Home Brewers Club
Second Place BOS- $75 gift certifcate01.D. Munich Helles Micks Generous Offering Curt and Kathy Stock St. Paul, MN St. Paul Homebrewers Club
Thrid Place BOS- $50 gift certifcate
24.B. Semi-Sweet Mead Viking Mead Ryan Verkennis Blaine, MN Minnesota Home Brewers Association
Thanks to Midwest Homebrew Supplies for gift certicates! Also, Thanks to Northern Brewer and Still-H20 for sponsoring as well. ALL scoresheets, prizes, metals and rosettes will be sent out AFTER the Minnesota State Fair is over.
ALL metal winners are posted at:
http://www.mnbrewers.com/events/mnfair/2008mnfair.htm
Congrats to all homebrewers!
Regards,
Sean Hewitt
Minnesota State Fair Homebrew Competition Organizer
The State Fair does not want the results posted until after the awards
ceremony (yesterday). I just got back from out of town, so I wasn't able to
post them until now.
The BOS results have not yet been reported to me - I will update the website
as soon as I receive them.
All of the medal winners from the 2008 MN Fair are now online at:
http://www.mnbrewers.com/events/mnfair/2008mnfair.htm
Congrats to all!
- Al
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Steve Stock
Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2008 6:33 PM
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Subject: [sphbc] State Fair results?
Anybody have the state fair results?
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Tom -
Scoresheets are normally sent out as soon as a competition is over. The
State Fair has asked us not to release results until after the Best-of-Show
and Awards Ceremony this coming Saturday. (Need not be present to win!)
Also, medals are displayed in the Creative Activities Building thru the run
of the fair, so we cannot send out winning results packages until we
retrieve the medals - after the fair. To make it easy (on the contest
organizers), we just send out ALL results after the fair is over. We will
mail your results to you at that time.
- Al
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From: tom burtyk tburtyk(a)hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:40:01 -0500
To: mnbrewers(a)yahoogroups.com
Subject: [mnbrewers] state fair comp
I some questions with the state fair comp. This is my first contest so I
was just wondering how the score sheets go, do they get sent out after the
comp? Do you have to be at the ceremony?(which I won't be I will be out of
town) Do you have to pick them up?
Thanks
Tom
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Time's almost up! You don't want to miss this!
Hear ye brewers of the realm! It is time for a competition! A
competition between men! And women! 'Tis the best kind of competition
– one of beer, mead, and ciders! Registration for the 2nd annual
Byggvir’s Big Beer Cup opens on Friday, August 1st and closes on
August 23rd. With over a dozen styles to chose from and $5 an entry,
you can have multiple chances to take home the chalice! Come one and
come all, and enter all of your favorite recipes to be judged Labor
Day weekend at the MN Renaissance Festival!
If you don't feel like putting your finest homebrews on the line,
there are other ways to win the favor of the King. We need volunteers!
Free yourself from serfdom by serving your debt as a Judge or Steward.
Official rules and registration information at http://rennfestbeercup.com/
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MEAD DAY THANK YOU!
I have been tardy in extending my thank-you's for all of the people who
helped put together a fabulous Mead-Day (Mead WEEK!) Extravaganza earlier
this month! The details of all of these events will be published soon, in
the Boiler and other places, but for now, let it suffice to say that it took
a LOT of people to pull this off - and without them all it would not have
been possible! If I've missed someone, I'm sincerely sorry.
Help support those who gave for this event!
* Go Eat and Drink at the Happy Gnome!
* Go buy some White Winter meads!
* May as well buy it at the Four Firkins!
* Buy a Land of Amber Waters book
* Buy a Mead Day T-Shirt
THANKS AGAIN TO EVERYONE!
- Al
TUESDAY, JULY 29 - MHBA Club-Only Champion Selection
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Jonathan Crist - Judge
Paul Dienhart - Judge
Gera Exire LaTour - Judge
Mike Moranz - Judge
Steve Piatz - Judge
Joel Stitzel - Judge
Al Boyce - Judge
All 16 club members who entered mead!
WINNER: Rick Oftel's Pepper/Cardamom Mead
THURSDAY, JULY 31 - White Winter Six Course Mead Pairing Dinner at the Happy
Gnome
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Nick Miller - Owner of The Happy Gnome - http://thehappygnome.com
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Matthew Hinman - Chef at the Happy Gnome
Jon Hamilton - meadmaker at White Winter, Speaker -
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Ken Schramm - author of "The Compleat Meadmaker", Speaker
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Jesse Stremcha - organizer
All of the diners who came to savor this fabulous meal!
FRIDAY AUGUST 1 - AHA COC Mead Judging at CSPS Hall
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Jonathan Crist - Competition Organizer
Diane Crist - DB Queen
Eric Biermann - Cellarmaster
Janis Gross - AHA COC Coordinator http://www.beertown.org/events/meadday/
Kathleen Crook - Potter (creator of Mead Mazer awards) 612-729-1660
Chris Smith and Kris England - meadmakers for commemorative meads
Gera Exire LaTour - label designer for commemorative mead
All of the judges, stewards and volunteers!
All of the 53 clubs nationally who participated!
SATURDAY, AUGUST 2 - Commercial Mead Tasting at the Four Firkins
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Steve Fletty - Commercial Calibration judge
Steve Piatz - Commercial Calibration judge
Ken Schramm - Commercial Calibration Judge
Curt Stock - Commercial Calibration judge
Everyone who came and bought stuff from Alvey! SUPPORT THE FIRKINS!
SATURDAY, AUGUST 2 - Mead Day
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Paul and Betsy Dienhart - hosts
Ken Schramm - Speaker
Rick Oftel - BBQ Chef
Gera Exire LaTour and Joel Stitzel - designers of Mead Day T-shirt
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Members who brought MEAD and food to share!
SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 - BJCP Certified Mead Judge Exam at CSPS Hall
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Steve Piatz - Co-Exam Administrator (Written portion)
Susan Ruud - Co-Exam Administrator (Tasting portion)
Jonathan Crist - Supplies
Steve Fletty - Proctor
Kris England - Proctor
Steve Piatz - Proctor
The six examinees - the FIRST people in the nation to take the test!
SUNDAY AUGUST 3 - Mead Class at CSPS Hall
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Kris England - BJCP Continuing Education Director, Asst. Instructor
Jonathan Crist - Supplies
Doug Hoverson - author of "Land of Amber Waters", class secretary
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Al Boyce - Mead Procurer (28 commercial varieties)
All the students who took the class!
Steve is correct. Many of the Belgian (and other) styles are quite current.
We would have an very tiny contest if we only did Renaissance styles of beers. Not sure we could figure out an accurate style guideline...
The committee decided last year that to leave off the very "American" styles as a bit tongue in cheek reference to the fact "America" had not been discovered yet. Sorry we did not state it as accurately as we should have. We will look into rewording the site next year to avoid the confusion. (We figured the other countries Steve mentioned were known and brewing at the time---even if the styles being brewed are current.)
Overall, the idea is to host a fun, low-key contest. I hope that our lack of accuracy does not turn anyone away from entering or from judging/stewarding.
Entries are accepted through August 23rd. Two bottles and $5 entry fee. Drop-off locations at Midwest, Northern Brewer, and Still H2O.
Gift certificates and handmade pottery drinking vessels for Best of Show, First Runner Up, and Second Runner Up. Medals for first, second and third in each category. There will be a $20 gift certificate to Northern Brewer for the Best "Historic" style.
The contest will be judged on the Saturday, Sunday, and Monday of Labor Day on the Renaissance Festival Site. Free entry into the Fest on the day(s) you sign up to help.
(P.S. There is plenty of straw, dirt, and smoked meat smells to help give that 'ye olde' flavor to your judging experience...)
Gera Exire LaTour
Organizer, Byggvir's Big Beer Cup
Minnesota Renaissance Festival
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:18:49 -0500From: sfletty(a)gmail.comTo: sphbc(a)googlegroups.comSubject: [sphbc] Byggvirs Beer Cup Styles Misleading
The web site discludes American styles because: "However, most of the American style beers recognized by the BJCP have been developed since World War II, therefore have been eliminated from the contest."The same is true of many of the Belgian styles, most of which only date from post World War 1.Also, modern English beer bears little resemblance to things brewed 100-200 years ago there.And some of the German styles don't date back to the Rennsaisance either.It would be a much more interesting contest if it were more historically accurate, in my opinion.I'm not trying to attack anyone here, but after seeing Randay Mosher's talk on Belgian beer at the AHA Conference in Cincy in June it was a bit of an eye-opening experience. The things they were brewing in Belgian prior to World War 1 were completely different than anything we think of now as Belgian beer.While I've done some research into IPA developement, I'd never looked in Belgain beer history and had just assumed things like dubble and tripel had been around a lot longer.--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~You received this message because you are subscribed to the Saint Paul Homebrewers Club discussion list.
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