When it comes to crafting America's best homemade beer, a St. Paul club is the reigning champ

pioneer press ^ | 6-19-2010 | Andy Rathbun

[WOBBLY BOB]

Nic Henke is a home-brewer, just as his German-American grandparents were two generations ago.

You could say that beer is in his blood.

"Yeah, and it's probably measurable some days," jokes Henke, whose love of the craft is evidenced in the several-thousand-dollar home-brewing room in the basement of his Mendota Heights home.

Henke, who brews two or three styles of beer each month, is a member of the St. Paul Homebrewers Club, which meets monthly to talk beer and critique their brews. Members then pit their beers against others from across the nation. Tonight, they'll find out whether they keep their title as the American Homebrewers Association's Homebrew Club of the Year.

[WOBBLY BOB]

I'm surprised a St.Paul bureaucrat hasn't legislated this out of existence,too.

[ReformedBeckite]

wobbly bob do you become wobbly after taste testing and drinking all that good home made beer.

[Grizzled Bear]

Ping!

[DemforBush]

I still remember my first batch of homebrew. I would go on to do much better brews, but there’s nothing like the first sip of a beer you made yourself.

Cider is pretty easy to do, though I was strictly a kit man when it came to cider or wine. I never had the patience for mead, or the access to the quality of honey a good mead needs. I used grocery store honey as an adjunct in some of my beers without problem, but I’m told that generic, store-bought honey makes for a very dull mead.

[Principled]

I remember my first girl...

http://www.plime.com/l/128915/1/

[ConorMacNessa]

Home brew rules! One of my earliest jobs, during college, was working for a home wine and beer making outfit. I still make wine and beer forty years later.

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[Chode]

it might not be the best in the world, but, i know the people and it is the best of the local area brews... the DogTooth IPA is the best drinking while the Amber best with dinner

http://www.roosterfishbrewing.com/index.php