Competition Corner

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

KROC All IPA Competition

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The Keg Ran Out Club of Broomfield, Colorado invites you to enter our all-IPA homebrew competition to be held in conjunction with the 14th Annual KROC World Brewers Forum. This is the event to attend after the Thursday night session of the Great American Beer Festival.

Homebrew entries will be evaluated by experienced judges and all entries will receive score sheets and comments. Medals will be awarded for the top entries as detailed below, as well as for a Best of Show.

This year’s competition judging will be held at CB & Potts in Westminster, and the awards presented at the World Brewers Forum on October 9th at the Marriott City Center, Denver, CO.

The Competition is open to amateur homebrewers age 21 or older. All entries must be handcrafted products made using private equipment by hobbyist brewers (i.e., no use of commercial facilities or Brew on Premises operations, supplies, etc.).

Entry

September 22nd until noon September 29th

$5 per entry

2 bottles

Drop Off

Goatshed Beer Revival Competition Results – Kjell Wygant Wins BOS!!!

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Congratulations to Kjell Wygant, RHBC President!

 

Kjell was woken from a nap today by a phone call from our friends at Boulder Beer. He has won Best of Show for this year’s Goatshed Revival with his Saison. He’s heading to Boulder this Sunday to brew a big batch with the brewer and it should be on tap in their tap room mid-August… hmmmm, sounds like a Hopper road trip.

 

This isn’t the first time either, the photo of Kjell on the right is the man himself taking a sip of his winning stout entry brewed by Dry Dock brewing in Aurora.

 

Here’s a link to his recipe: http://logs.rockhoppersbrewclub.com/index.php?page=brewBlogDetail&filter=kwygant&id=41

 

He also gets free beer for a year! Hope he shares!

Eight Seconds of Froth Competition

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Judging July 12, 2008 at the old Union Pacific Railroad Deopt in Laramie Wyoming. 9:30 am.

Entries $6 each.

Entry window is June 25 through July 5.

Drop off locations:

  • Hop To It, 2900 Valmont Rd. D2, Boulder, CO. (303) 444-8888
  • Beer at Home, 4393 S Broadway, Englewood, CO (303)789-3676
  • The Brew Hut, 15108 E. Hampden Ave., Aurora, CO (303)680-8898
  • Beer at Home, 1325 W. 121st Ave., Westminster, CO (720)872-9463
  • Stomp Them Grapes, 2563 15th Street #101, Denver, CO, (303)433-6552

Remember to enter as part of the Rock Hoppers!  Represent, brothers!!

More info at http://www.bbriggs.vcn.com/8seconds.html

Rock Hoppers Win at NHC Regionals!

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Members of the Rock Hoppers Brew Club have done themselves and their club proud by placing in five categories in the Old West regional judging.

Michael Bade won 1st place in the Pilsner category.

Rich McLain placed in two categories: 1st place in American Ale and 2nd place in English Ale.

Greg Geiger won 2nd place in the Fruit Beer category.

Doug Causey, RHBC’s newest member, took 1st place in the Scottish Ale category.

Geoff Humphrey won 3rd place in both the Vienna Lager (the first lager he has brewed ever) and American Brown Ale categories.

A complete list of winners is located at http://www.beertown.org/events/nhc/1st_round.html

Congratulations guys!!

Build Your Empire!

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The AHA’s club only competition for September/October 2008 is Imperial Anything. To make the deadline, everyone should begin brewing NOW (or, if you have a cellared big beer, save at least three or four for the September deadline).

The way it could work would be this:

  1. The club’s members bring their Imperial beers to the September Rock Hoppers meeting.
  2. Everyone in attendance tastes and judges each beer.
  3. A winner is decided.
  4. That winner’s beer is sent to Michigan to be judged there.
  5. If our club member’s brew places, we get points toward Brew Club of the Year!

Entries are due 10/11/08 and judging will be held 10/18/08. Entry fee $7 (make checks payable to AHA).

Here’s the lowdown:

Entry Shipping:
Sherwood Brewing Co.
45689 Hayes Road
Shelby Township, MI 48315
Attn: Sept/Oct 2008 AHA COC

Hosted by Fred Bonjour and the Clinton River Association of Fermenting Trendsetters (C.R.A.F.T.) of Macomb Township, MI, this competition covers any beer style that has been imperialized. Entries will be judged to BJCP Category 23 Specialty Beer, so entrants must include information about what they have done. The competition is not about the biggest beer, it is about a bigger beer done right.