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Each October, the
Prairie Homebrewing Companions gather
together the best homebrew from the 4 corners of the globe to determine who is the 'Great Pumpkin'
of brewers.
All BJCP categories can be entered, but
the Hoppy
Halloween Challenge has a category unique to this competition:
Halloween
Theme Beer:
"Any beer with characteristics that would
identify it as being made for, and in the spirit of, Halloween."
How spooky can you brew?
Full rules for the Halloween Theme
Beer are available HERE.
Questions
or comments on the Hoppy Halloween Challenge?
Email
hoppy@prairiehomebrewers.org
Hoppy
Halloween Challenge 2008
This
is the 11th year of the Hoppy Halloween Challenge!
There
were 189 Entries
Best
of Show (Beer):
"No
Stinking Horse Blanket" A specialty beer (Saison intentionally treated with several strains of Brettanomyces)
from Steve Piatz, Eagan, MN; Minnesota Home Brewers
Association.
Best
of Show (Mead/Cider):
"Blackberry
Blossom Mead" a Sweet Mead from Susan
and Bob Ruud, Harwood, ND; Prairie Homebrewing
Companions
Great
Pumpkin winner:
Paul
Vogel, Fargo, ND; Prairie Homebrewing Companions
Halloween
Theme Beer:
"Dead
Vienna" from Steve & Laurie Daiken from Duluth,
MN of the Northern Ale Stars
Full
List of Hoppy Halloween Challenge 2008 Results
Hoppy
Halloween
Awards Banquet
The Hoppy Halloween
Challenge
activities ended with an awards banquet on the evening of Saturday October 25th,
at the Country Inn & Suites.
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The featured speaker this year at the
Hoppy Halloween Banquet was Doug Hoverson, author of "Land
of Amber
Waters: The History of Brewing in Minnesota"
Doug teaches social studies and
coaches the debate team at St. Thomas Academy in Mendota Heights,
Minnesota. He is associate editor of American Breweriana
Journal, an award-winning homebrewer, and a certified beer
judge.
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Starting
with its first brewery in 1849, Doug Hoverson tells the
story of the state’s beer industry from the small-town
breweries that gave way to larger companies with
regional and national prominence (including Hamm’s,
Grain Belt, and Schell’s) to the vibrant beer culture
of today, led by a new wave of breweries such as Summit,
Lake Superior Brewing Co., and Surly, as well as
brewpubs like Town Hall Brewery, Fitger’s, and Granite
City Brewpub, sustained by microbreweries, home brewers,
and beer aficionados.
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support the 2008 Hoppy Halloween
Sponsors
Questions
or comments on Hoppy Halloween?
Email hoppy@prairiehomebrewers.org
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