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Welcome to the 1^st annual Besley’s Homebrew Competition.  This competition is open to all amateur homebrewers.

The goal of Besley’s Homebrew Competition is to shine a spotlight on the efforts of the Save Brainerd Foundation and help spread the word about better beers throughout Lake County.  To help entice the homebrewing community to show up in droves we are burning up the phone lines in an effort to provide a small inventory of incredible awards.

Best of Show brewer will win the “Brewer’s Dream” to brew a production batch of their recipe at Mickey Finn’s Brewery with Brew Master Greg Brown. Your beer will be made available for sale to Mickey Finn’s patrons.  On top of this a dollar for every pint of your beer served to Mickey Finn’s patrons will be donated to save Brainerd.

Additional prizes include an authentic Oktoberfest festival table and benches from the Hacker-Pschorr tent in Munich Germany, vintage dated ‘08 Rogue Ales XSperience Series Ceramic Swing Tops. We hope to have more awards to announce shortly. Check back frequently.

To get involved you must register at the web site provided below and your entries must arrive at Mickey Finn’s Brewery no later than August 18^th, 2011.  For complete competition rules, guidelines and registration please go to the registration website: http://northshorewinebeerfest.brewcompetition.com/

Why “Besley’s”? Look here to find out more about Lake County’s first commercial brewery: http://lakecountyhistory.blogspot.com/2010/06/besleys-brew.html

We need knowledgeable and responsible volunteers to help pour samples for the fine breweries that have donate their time and beers.  If you can help please follow this link and provide your information: http://www.northshorewinebeerfest.com/Volunteer.html.

Cheers!