The BIGGEST EVENT OF THE YEAR in the Minnesota Home Brewers Association Calendar is coming up in January! Make your plans now!!! The Upper Mississippi Mash-Out invites you to enter and/or judge this year's contest! Last year the Mash-Out had 300 entries, separate Best-of-Show awards ("The Mash-Out Chalice") for beers and meads/ciders, and fabulous door prizes for guests at the awards ceremony. This year will be bigger and better still! Here are some of the dates: Entries Accepted: Jan 8-21, 2005 Midwest or Northern Brewer Judging: Jan 27-29, 2005 Holiday Inn Metrodome, West Bank Beer Dinner(new!):Jan 29, 2005 6pm Summit Brewing, St. Paul Awards Ceremony: Jan 29, 2005 8pm Summit Brewing, St. Paul We will also have our "Special" category once again - the "Eis-Anything" competition, with it's own special trophy. We hope you will join us for the 2005 Upper Mississippi Mash-Out. It WILL BE the BIGGEST beer event of the year!! We have some special perks for Judges, Stewards and Volunteers! (You'll have to volunteer to find out WHAT!) If you can't help us steward or judge, then enter some of your homebrews, and if you can't enter, then come help us celebrate at the Beer Dinner, or at the Awards Ceremony with Summit beer! Check out the details at our web page: http://www.mnbrewers.com/mashout Download our poster to remind you: http://www.mnbrewers.com/mashout/MashOutFlyer2005.pdf We hope to see you at this year's Mash-Out! Al Boyce Upper Mississippi Mash-Out