The High Plains Brewer is an award given to an individual brewer from Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota or Minnesota who demonstrates outstanding and consistent brewing skills. The award recipient is chosen based on performance in seven regional competitions. Qualifying events are hosted by Kansas City Bier Meisters; Iowa Brewers Union; Prairie Homebrewing Companions; OmaHops; Minnesota Home Brewers Association & St Paul Homebrew Club;THIRSTY;and Fellowship of Oklahoma Ale Makers. To be eligible, a brewer must reside in or belong to a club located in one of the aforementioned states. Points will be awarded as follows: 5 for 1st, 3 for 2nd and 1 for a 3rd place finish in a qualifying competition. A brewer can only receive points for the highest scoring beer per category/subcategory.

High Plains Club-of-the-Year. All clubs from the above mentioned states are eligible. Brewers points from those clubs are summed to produce the club points. Clubs whose members amass the most points as defined above, will receive the Steven H. Ford traveling troph

Qualifying Competitions Clubs hosting Qualifying events are required to notify the High Plains program administrator when and where their competition willl be held, as well as the name and contact information for the competition coordinator. The competition coordinator is required to provide timely reporting of information identifying the winning brewers from each category/subcategory including name, address, club affilliation and which award, 1st, 2nd or 3rd the brewer won. The ompetition coordinator is also responsible for insuring their club remits the $25 trophy fee to the High Plain program administrator.

Questions and comments should be directed to jrager@swbell.net.

2008 Standings ~ Click Here
2007 Standings ~ Click Here
2006 Standings ~ Click Here

Ed Vandegrift

Winner 2007 High Plains Brewer award

St Paul Hombrewers Club

Winner 2007 High Plain Club of the year (4 in a row)
2005 Standings ~ Click Here

Al Boyce

Winner 2006 High Plains Brewer award

St Paul Hombrewers Club

Winner 2006High Plain Club of the year (3 peet)
2006 Standings ~ Click Here

Kris England and the pete

Winner 2005 High Plains Brewer award

St Paul Hombrewers Club

Winner 2005 High Plain Club of the year

Qualifying Competitions

1. "Upper Mississippi Mash-Out" - MhBA, SPHC
Competition Date: Completed
Contact: Al Boyce (alboyce@bigfoot.com)
Deadline:
Website: http://www.mnbrewers.com/mashout

2. Kansas City Bier Meisters Regional HBC
Competition Date: Completed
Contact: Fred Zimmermann(fzimmlaw@Yahoo.com)
Deadline: February 10th, 2008
Website: http://kcbiermeisters.org

3. "IBU Open" - Iowa Brewer's Union
Competition Date: Saturday, March 3rd, 2007
Contact: Ron Staab (ronaldgstaab@yahoo.com)
Deadline: Complete
Website: http://www.iowabrewersunion.org

4. Foam Cup - (Fellowship of Oklahoma Ale Makers)
Contact: Dave Knott (dave@highgravitybrew.com)
Date: TBA
Website: http://www.alemakers.com

5. River City Roundup - Omahops
Contact: John Fahrer (jfahrer1@cox.net)
Date: TBA
Deadline:
website: http://www.rivercityroundup.org/dcf/beer

6. "Hoppy Halloween" - Prairie Homebrewers Companion
Contact: Susan ruud (susanruud@aob.org)
Deadline: TBA
Website: http://prairiehomebrewers.org

7. "THIRSTY Classic" The Iowa Homebrewers<
Contact: Susan Walsh (susan-walsh@uiowa.edu)
Deadline: TBA
Website: http://www.thirstyhomebrew.org