Great Northern Brew Ha Ha

April 08, 2026 · Earth Rider Brewing 1617 N 3rd St Superior, WI 54880

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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.

Accepted Styles
  1. Altbier
  2. Alternative Grain Beer
  3. Alternative Sugar Beer
  4. American Amber Ale
  5. American Barleywine
  6. American Blonde Ale
  7. American Brown Ale
  8. American IPA
  9. American Lager
  10. American Light Lager
  11. American Pale Ale
  12. American Porter
  13. American Stout
  14. American Strong Ale
  15. American Wheat Beer
  16. Australian Sparkling Ale
  17. Autumn Seasonal Beer
  18. Baltic Porter
  19. Belgian Blond Ale
  20. Belgian Dark Strong Ale
  21. Belgian Dubbel
  22. Belgian Golden Strong Ale
  23. Belgian IPA
  24. Belgian Pale Ale
  25. Belgian Tripel
  26. Berliner Weisse
  27. Berry Mead
  28. Best Bitter
  29. Bière de Garde
  30. Black IPA
  31. Blonde Ale
  32. Braggot
  33. Brett Beer
  34. British Brown Ale
  35. British Golden Ale
  36. British Strong Ale
  37. Brown IPA
  38. Brut IPA
  39. California Common
  40. Classic Style Smoked Beer
  41. Clone Beer
  42. Cream Ale
  43. Cyser
  44. Czech Amber Lager
  45. Czech Dark Lager
  46. Czech Pale Lager
  47. Czech Premium Pale Lager
  48. Dark Mild
  49. Doppelbock
  50. Dortmunder Export
  51. Double IPA
  52. Dry Mead
  53. Dunkles Bock
  54. Dunkles Weissbier
  55. Eisbock
  56. English Barleywine
  57. English Cider
  58. English IPA
  59. English Perry
  60. English Porter
  61. Experimental Beer
  62. Festbier
  63. Flanders Red Ale
  64. Foreign Extra Stout
  65. French Cider
  66. French Perry
  67. Fruit Beer
  68. Fruit Lambic
  69. Fruit and Spice Beer
  70. German Helles Exportbier
  71. German Leichtbier
  72. German Pils
  73. Gose
  74. Grape Ale
  75. Gueuze
  76. Hazy IPA
  77. Helles Bock
  78. Historical Beer
  79. Historical Mead
  80. Imperial Stout
  81. International Amber Lager
  82. International Dark Lager
  83. International Pale Lager
  84. Irish Extra Stout
  85. Irish Red Ale
  86. Irish Stout
  87. Kellerbier
  88. Kölsch
  89. Lambic
  90. Melomel
  91. Metheglin
  92. Mixed-Fermentation Sour Beer
  93. Mixed-Style Beer
  94. Munich Dunkel
  95. Munich Helles
  96. Märzen
  97. New World Cider
  98. New World Fruit Cider
  99. New World Perry
  100. Oatmeal Stout
  101. Old Ale
  102. Open Category Mead
  103. Ordinary Bitter
  104. Other New World Cider
  105. Oud Bruin
  106. Pyment
  107. Rauchbier
  108. Red IPA
  109. Rye IPA
  110. Saison
  111. Schwarzbier
  112. Scottish Export
  113. Scottish Heavy
  114. Scottish Light
  115. Semi-Sweet Mead
  116. Specialty Cider or Perry
  117. Specialty Fruit Beer
  118. Specialty IPA
  119. Specialty Smoked Beer
  120. Specialty Spice Beer
  121. Specialty Wood-Aged Beer
  122. Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer
  123. Stone Fruit Mead
  124. Straight Sour Beer
  125. Strong Bitter
  126. Sweet Mead
  127. Sweet Stout
  128. Trappist Single
  129. Tropical Stout
  130. Vienna Lager
  131. Wee Heavy
  132. Weissbier
  133. Weizenbock
  134. Wheatwine
  135. White IPA
  136. Wild Specialty Beer
  137. Winter Seasonal Beer
  138. Witbier
  139. Wood-Aged Beer
Rules & Terms

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.

Entry Fee
$10.00
Bottles Required
2 × 12oz
Entry Window
Mar 02 – Mar 27, 2026
Entries
228 / 300
Shipping / Drop-off
Earth Rider Brewing 1617 N 3rd St Superior, WI 54880

Judging Sessions

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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