The 2008 Upper Mississippi Mash-Out is history! The organizing committee would like to thank our sponsors, our volunteers, our entrants and our guests for helping make this year's Mash-Out such a HUGE success! You can check out the results and pictures on our website at:
SET YOUR CALENDAR! Next year's Mash-Out will be held on Jan 23-24, 2009!
2008 Upper Mississippi Mash-Out: By The Numbers
1 "Eis-Anything" Stained Glass Stein Awarded
3 Best of Show "Mash-Out Chalices" awarded
3 Characters in the Shortest Beer Name
3 Number of Champion Brewer qualifier contests
3.3 Average Beers entered per Brewer
4 BJCP Master Judges and above
4 Judging Days
4 Volunteer meals served
5 Most flights in a single category
7 Entry Stickers applied per Entry
7 th Year of the Upper Mississippi Mash-Out
9 Best of Show Judges
10 BJCP National Judges
10 Judging Sessions
10 Least entries per category
11 States and Provinces Represented by Volunteers
12 "Eis-Anything" Entries
14 Courses Served at the Beer Dinner by Chefs Manfred Krug and Jerry Pelton
20 Kegs of "Volunteer" Beer
23 Most Beers En
tered by One Entrant
26 Most entries per club outside of MN (PHC)
26 T-shirts
27 "New Entrant" Entries
30 Dollar Charge for the Beer Dinner
32 States represented by Contest Entries
38 Mini-BOS Flights
42 Sponsors
45 Most enrtries per category
46 Contest Categories
50 Characters in the Longest Beer Name
79 BJCP-Trained Judges
95 Flights
97 Brew Clubs Represented by Contest Entries
100 Banquet Attendees
129 Volunteers
141 Medals awarded
192 Most entries per club (SPHBC)
228 Mini-BOS beers
236 Commemorative Glasses
243 Brewers Entered
285 Judge Slots
364 Days until the 2006 Upper Mississippi Mash-Out: 1/24/2006
403 Entries from Minnesota
405 Entries from Outside Minnesota
808 Total Entries
1616 Beer Bottles in the Cellar
2424 Scoresheets writt
en
3731 Plastic glasses
5656 Bottle Stickers