Great Northern Brew Ha Ha
April 08, 2026 · Earth Rider Brewing 1617 N 3rd St Superior, WI 54880
The Great Northern Brew Ha Ha is an AHA-sanctioned homebrew competition organized by the Northern Ale Stars Homebrewers Guild in Duluth, MN. Open to all amateur homebrewers age 21 or older. Full BJCP 2015/2021 styles accepted including beer, mead, and cider. Entry drop-off and shipping to Earth Rider Brewing, 1617 N 3rd St, Superior, WI 54880. Circuit: MHP Circuit of America 2026.
- Altbier
- Alternative Grain Beer
- Alternative Sugar Beer
- American Amber Ale
- American Barleywine
- American Blonde Ale
- American Brown Ale
- American IPA
- American Lager
- American Light Lager
- American Pale Ale
- American Porter
- American Stout
- American Strong Ale
- American Wheat Beer
- Australian Sparkling Ale
- Autumn Seasonal Beer
- Baltic Porter
- Belgian Blond Ale
- Belgian Dark Strong Ale
- Belgian Dubbel
- Belgian Golden Strong Ale
- Belgian IPA
- Belgian Pale Ale
- Belgian Tripel
- Berliner Weisse
- Berry Mead
- Best Bitter
- Bière de Garde
- Black IPA
- Blonde Ale
- Braggot
- Brett Beer
- British Brown Ale
- British Golden Ale
- British Strong Ale
- Brown IPA
- Brut IPA
- California Common
- Classic Style Smoked Beer
- Clone Beer
- Cream Ale
- Cyser
- Czech Amber Lager
- Czech Dark Lager
- Czech Pale Lager
- Czech Premium Pale Lager
- Dark Mild
- Doppelbock
- Dortmunder Export
- Double IPA
- Dry Mead
- Dunkles Bock
- Dunkles Weissbier
- Eisbock
- English Barleywine
- English Cider
- English IPA
- English Perry
- English Porter
- Experimental Beer
- Festbier
- Flanders Red Ale
- Foreign Extra Stout
- French Cider
- French Perry
- Fruit Beer
- Fruit Lambic
- Fruit and Spice Beer
- German Helles Exportbier
- German Leichtbier
- German Pils
- Gose
- Grape Ale
- Gueuze
- Hazy IPA
- Helles Bock
- Historical Beer
- Historical Mead
- Imperial Stout
- International Amber Lager
- International Dark Lager
- International Pale Lager
- Irish Extra Stout
- Irish Red Ale
- Irish Stout
- Kellerbier
- Kölsch
- Lambic
- Melomel
- Metheglin
- Mixed-Fermentation Sour Beer
- Mixed-Style Beer
- Munich Dunkel
- Munich Helles
- Märzen
- New World Cider
- New World Fruit Cider
- New World Perry
- Oatmeal Stout
- Old Ale
- Open Category Mead
- Ordinary Bitter
- Other New World Cider
- Oud Bruin
- Pyment
- Rauchbier
- Red IPA
- Rye IPA
- Saison
- Schwarzbier
- Scottish Export
- Scottish Heavy
- Scottish Light
- Semi-Sweet Mead
- Specialty Cider or Perry
- Specialty Fruit Beer
- Specialty IPA
- Specialty Smoked Beer
- Specialty Spice Beer
- Specialty Wood-Aged Beer
- Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer
- Stone Fruit Mead
- Straight Sour Beer
- Strong Bitter
- Sweet Mead
- Sweet Stout
- Trappist Single
- Tropical Stout
- Vienna Lager
- Wee Heavy
- Weissbier
- Weizenbock
- Wheatwine
- White IPA
- Wild Specialty Beer
- Winter Seasonal Beer
- Witbier
- Wood-Aged Beer
This competition is AHA sanctioned and open to any amateur homebrewer age 21 or older. All mailed entries must received at the mailing location by the entry deadline - please allow for shipping time. Please add "Attn: Brew Ha Ha" under Earth Rider Brewing on the address label. For those dropping off entries, bring them to the Cedar Lounge next door. All entries will be picked up from drop-off locations the day of the entry deadline. All entries must be handcrafted products, containing ingredients available to the general public, and made using private equipment by hobbyist brewers (i.e., no use of commercial facilities or Brew on Premises operations, supplies, etc.). The competition organizers are not responsible for mis-categorized entries, mailed entries that are not received by the entry deadline, or entries that arrived damaged. The competition organizers reserve the right to combine styles for judging and to restructure awards as needed depending upon the quantity and quality of entries. Qualified judging of all entries is the primary goal of our event. Judges will evaluate and score each entry. The average of the scores will rank each entry in its category. Each flight will have at least one BJCP judge. Brewers are not limited to one entry in each category but may only enter each subcategory once. The competition committee reserves the right to combine categories based on number of entries. All possible effort will be made to combine similar styles. All brews in combined categories will be judged according to the style they were originally entered in. The Best of Show judging will be determined by a Best of Show panel based on a second judging of the top winners. Bottles will not be returned to entrants.
Judging Sessions
📅Session 0B
Apr 07, 2026 · 7:00 PM
Session 1
Apr 08, 2026 · 7:00 PM
Session 2
Apr 09, 2026 · 7:00 PM
Session 3
Apr 10, 2026 · 4:00 PM
Session 4
Apr 11, 2026 · 11:00 AM