Competition Corner

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

Arapahoe County Fair

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Hi All, I just spoke with the lady in charge of the arapahoe county fair competition and they need judges, badly. She didn’t know it was the same day as judging for Gnarly Barley so now they are scrambling for judges. If you can, contact her TODAY at elliejr@earthlink.net. Judging is this Sunday at 9am.

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

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…