Competition Corner

Information about upcoming competitions: club, local, regional, and national.

The Bruery Batch 50 Contest – FREE

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The Bruery is a small craft brewery near Los Angeles, CA. founded by homebrewers. The Bruery held a contest to a while back to determine what their first batch would be. This is a contest to determine what receipe will be brewed as Batch 50.

Entry is free.

Entries must be received by January 17th.

Details at http://www.thebruery.com/batch50/

Big Beers, Belgians & Barleywines Festival Needs Help!

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A message posted to Tech Talk today – this competition and festival is in our neck of the woods – Vail.

If you enter this contest, add your name and brew to the club’s tracking sheet

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Big Beers, Belgians & Barleywines Homebrew Competition (January 9th)

A friendly reminder to all homebrewers with Big, Belgian or Experimental  brews ready to go… It’s time to register and send in your entries! Entries are accepted during the month of December for the January 9, 2009 judging. For more information check out www.BigBeersFestival.com or contact me at BigBeersFestival@hotmail.com. (Remember to allow for holiday shipping issues.)I’m also looking for some brave, bold, fun souls to judge for this amazing, AHA sanctioned BJCP competition. Judging and stewarding garner free admission to all Seminars and the Commercial Tasting on Saturday, including “Brewing Outside the Box: Brewers Gone Wild”, and the “Cheese & Chocolate Challenge: A Global Big Beers Competition”.

BJCP Study Group

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Hi All,

Larry, Geoff and I have been talking about staring another BJCP study class. For those who don’t know this is a detailed, structured 10 week effort. We meet once a week to learn about and taste a different group of beer styles. I think I can also speak for Larry and Walt and say that this course completely changed the way we thought about and analyzed beer – BIG recalibration!

I think starting at the first of the year would be good? I will also be trying to set up an exam for next summer but even if you don’t want to take the test this is still a great course to take.

Let me know if you’re interested in attending. We will probably need to limit the size of the class to about 6. Walt, I assume you want in again?

Cheers!

Gregorio

 

FOTR Results – Hoppers Take 8 Ribbons and BOS!

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The Rock Hoppers made a significant showing at the Foam on the Range annual homebrewing competition – including another Best of Show!

Congratulations to:

Greg Geiger

  1. American Ales – 1st place, Geiger’s Summer Ale
  2. Stong Ales – 1st place, Geiger’s English Barleywine
  3. Belgian Tripel and Golden Ale – 1st place, Geiger’s Tripel

Adam Glaser

  1. Specialty Beer – 3rd place, Agave Wheat

Larry Hood

  1. Best of Show – Clan Jones Bitter
  2. Light Hybrid, Amber Hybrid, English and Scottish Ales – 1st place, Clan Jones Bitter (Special Bitter)

Geoff Humphrey

  1. Amber Lagers – 2nd place, Humptoberfest (Octoberfest/Marzen)

Kjell Wygant

  1. Stout – 3rd place, Malt Ball Monster (Russian Imperial Stout)

2008-2009 Competition Strategy: FOTR ’08

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This is the first in a series of posts that will help RHBC organize our members when entering competitions.

In an effort to gain as much representation as possible a given contest by our club, in this case, the Foam on the Range annual, members should click the link in the first comment below and add their name to the list of entrants in the appropriate category.

If you are entering a brew into BJCP Categories 20-23, make sure you indicate what your beer is and what its base style is (if applicable).

The goal is to have at least one Rock Hopper entry into each applicable BJCP category of a contest.

When entering any contest, be sure to list Rock Hoppers Brew Club on the Club/Organization line!