#homebrewcompetition

[jasonclick]

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Weekday Brew day. IPA for the @alewifebottleshop home brew comp! #homebrew #homebrewing #homebrewcompetition #IPA #brewday #alewifejax #caskjax #weekdaybrewing (at Green Cove Springs, Florida)

[mashnotebeer]

Congrats to our head brewer @stormygleason for placing second in the Specialty Beer category at the South Shore Brewoff #homebrewcompetition

[fermentologists]

Días Oscuros, ‘Dark Days’, is a Day of the Dead themed competition using 2015 BJCP style guidelines for dark beers.

All entries for the competition must be registered and dropped off at designated locations before close of business on November 11, 2016. Please contact your drop off location if you are unsure what time that is. There is no limit for entries, however brewers may not submit more than one entry per subcategory. There are 54 categories this year, counting subcategories. We will combine categories based on entry counts. The competition and award ceremony will be held at Copper Kettle Brewing Company on November 19 2016. The judging will begin at 8:00am and will conclude at 4:00pm. The award ceremony will begin at 6:00pm.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

[dickskinpink]

These amazing and talented men just won second place in the Ballast Point Homebrew Competition! Cheers to them! | #ballastpoint #ballastpointog20 #homebrewcompetition #dedicatedtothecraft #secondplace

[dickskinpink]

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Second place was awarded to @tristymccoy and @kylejung for their Strong Bitter! Congratulations to them both and their hard work! I'm so proud of them! | #ballastpointog20 #homebrewcompetition #sandiego #esb @atmospherebeer

[jenelizhomebrews]

Homebrewing: Homebrew Competition

I entered and stewarded my first ever homebrew competition a few months ago, and the whole thing was just a disaster.  I intended on brewing an Oktoberfest with just enough time for it to finish before the competition.  Don't. Ever. Do. That.

First problem was when I went to gather all my ingredients from the brew store, I picked up the wrong yeast.  I meant to get my California Lager yeast, but walked away with (and smacked the pack of) an American Wheat WYeast 1010.  Not exactly suitable for making an Oktoberfest with... luckily, it was an extract batch so I really only had to pick up a can of Bavarian wheat and some carahell grain to steep in.  

Well, my second problem is that I wasn't completely prepared for the crazy molten lava yeast fest that was about to ferment. It was a MESS and because of it, I ended up moving the fermenter into my kitchen sink to finish out the primary.  Laziness ensued, so it sat there for a few weeks.  Having nearly given up on this batch, I set the half-full fermenter at room temperature for yet another week when a very thin white film started blanketing the top of my beer and some large bubbles started forming. So this beer was sitting in the fermenter from August 29th all the way to October 19th.  When it came time to bottle, I took the airlock off to find a dead gnat molding away..... Could things possibly get worse??

3 weeks to competition and I finally bottled my beer.  There was no apparent astringency, it was a bit cloudy (but, that is expected from a hefe) and I really didn't have the chance to taste it before it went off... So, when I did, I was SUPER upset. It definitely had a sour, cardboard-like taste to it and the aroma was dull.  The color came through well but the taste was basically awful.