PHC Hoppy Halloween

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

Keep these dates free - October 24th - October 25th 2008

Hoppy Halloween Challenge 2007

This was the 10th year of the Hoppy Halloween Challenge!

Results are in! - 205 Entries

Best of Show (Beer):

"Gracies Gold" Classic American Pilsner from Curt and Kathy Stock, St. Paul, MN; St. Paul Homebrewers Club

Best of Show (Mead/Cider):

"Mint Mead" Metheglin from Susan Ruud, Harwood, ND; Prairie Homebrewing Companions

Great Pumpkin winner:

Paul Vogel, Fargo, ND; Prairie Homebrewing Companions

Halloween Theme Beer:

"Ichabod's Brown" from Paul Frank of the Prairie Homebrewing Companions

Full list of Hoppy Halloween 2007 Winning Beers

Hoppy Halloween 2007 Sponsors

Hoppy Halloween

Awards Banquet

The Hoppy Halloween Challenge activities ended with an awards banquet.

The Banquet Menu

Beef marinated

in Smokey Barleywine

Potato

Vegetable

Caesar Salad

Rolls

Desert bars

The featured speaker this year at the Hoppy Halloween Banquet was Gary Glass, Director of the American Homebrewing Association. Gary will speak about Homebrewers: Champions of American Beer Culture.

Gary became the director of the AHA in January of 2006. Before that he was the Project Coordinator for the Brewers Association. He has been recognized for his work building the National Homebrew Competition into the world’s largest beer competition, growing participation in the AHA’s National Homebrew Day and Teach a Friend to Homebrew Day and coordination of membership programs that helped to grow the AHA membership roster to more than 12,000 members.