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Hoppers Gear Up For NHC!

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Goin Mobile at NHC 2012

The 2012 National Homebrewers Conference is begins on June 20 – and six of your fellow Hoppers will be there!

Kjell Wygant, Billy Beeson, Mark Hartley, Steve Marquez, Jim Denier, and Geoff Humphrey will representing the club.

Our theme this year is…

Goin’ Mobile

On club night, we will be serving all of our nine beers at the conference from three mobile bars (see lower right – hence the theme) specially constructed for the conference!

Goin Mobile at NHC 2012

To give our club exposure at the national level, continue our NHC traditions, and to let people know about what our club is up to at the conference we have…

A mobile-friendly mini-website (https://rhbc.co) that has links to our t-shirt design and our menu of beers available at club night and our hospitality suite shift.

Stickers (see the design at right) that have a QR code for people to scan on their mobile phones that takes them to the rhbc.co site.

2012 Liquid Poetry Slam Results

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Hoppers win at the 2012 Liquid Poetry Slam. Congrats to the following members for their medals and mentions!

The complete list is here.

Michael Bade

  • 1st in Light Hybrid with Fizzy Blonde (Blonde Ale)

Billy Beeson

  • 3rd in Amber Hybrid with Extraction (N. German Alt)
  • 2nd in American Pale Ale with Electric Fuel Pump
  • 2nd in Other Belgian with Pastie Belgian (Belgian Pale Ale)
Greg Geiger
  • 1st in Imperial Stout with Chase’s Grit
Mark Hartley
  • 1st in Dark Lager with Pine Hollow Dunkel (Munich Dunkel)
  • HM in Bock with Procrastinator (Doppelbock)
Nate Kanous
  • HM in Spice/Herb/Veg with Punkin8ter
Bryan Keas
  • 1st in Amercian Brown with Dingleberry
  • 2nd in Irish Red with Gaelic’er
  • 1st in Imperial and Double Specialty with Hoppy Ending II
Scott Mead
  • 3rd in Belgian Light with Ray of Sunshine (Belgian Golden Strong)
Tom Thorpe
  • 1st in American Amber with Red Mesa Ale

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No Threepeat in the Ace of Clubs

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The 18th annual Eight Seconds of Froth Competition was held on May 19 with over 400 entries.

On the whole, the Hoppers kicked ass, but lost out on a threepeat of winning the Ace of Clubs designation.

On the bright side, our own Brian Pramov won another pro-am with his B-Rye American Amber, this time with the Altitude Chophouse and Brewery in Laramie. Now, he has to choose where to brew his recipe. Decisions, decisions…

Other Hopper winners were:

Michael Bade

  • 1st in Pilsner with Goes to Eleven (German Pilsner)
  • 2nd in Dark Lager with Eclipse (Schwarzbier)
  • 1st in Bock with Shock Bock (Maibock/Helles Bock)
  • 3rd in India Pale Ale (IPA) with Simcolicious (American IPA)

Greg Geiger

  • 1st in Stout with Chase’s Grit (Imperial Stout)
  • 2nd in Spice/Herb/Vegetable Beer with Chocolate Thunder (Spiced Beer)
  • 2nd in Smoke-Flavored & Wood-Aged Beer with Stalin’s Skidmarks (RHBC Barrel Project Imperial Stout)

Geoff Humphrey

  • 3rd in Dark Lager with Your Schwarz is as Big as Mine (Schwarzbier)

Jason Kruegel

  • 3rd in Bock with Advanced Lagerithim (Doppelbock)

Kelly Kruegel

  • 3rd in Smoke-Flavored & Wood-Aged Beer with Scotchy, Scotchy, Scotch (RHBC Barrel Project Wee Heavy)

Brian Pramov

  • 1st in Light Hybrid Beer with B-Rye (American Wheat or Rye Beer)

Congrats to all!

We’ll get the trophy back next year…

Liquid Poetry Slam Entry Window

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Dates:

  • Entries will be accepted at the drop off locations listed below from May 12 through May 25th
  • Judging will be held Sunday, June 3rd at Odell Brewing Company in Fort Collins (map) beginning at 9 am
  • An awards ceremony will be held afterwards at Odell to announce the winners

Entries:

  • This is a beer only competition (BJCP styles 1 to 23). Mead, cider, weirdomel, etc. entries will be more than welcome at our annual Muse Cup Competition coming up in September
  • The entry fee is 7 dollars. Two bottles should be supplied
  • Online registration is available at http://comp.liquidpoets.com/slam.
  • Medals will be awarded to 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners in each category, as well as for Best of Show Beer

AHA Pro-Am Selections:

Seven local breweries will be selecting beers from the best of show panel to brew for the 2011 GABF Pro-Am competition.