Thanks to everyone involved on Saturday and in the build up to it. It went extremely well and I think everyone had a great day.
I'm sure everyone is really looking forward to Cork now!
All scoresheets will be scanned and emailed or posted to entrants by the end of March.
Full scores will be available when the competition is completed on March 22 on the competition site. Mini Bos(medal round) entries have not made the system yet either.
We are in Cork mode now & are working hard to ensure it will be a huge success. Your patience is appreciated.
Not all categories were awarded medals by judges.
Medalists are as follows.
Category
1.
Gold : Brian Dempsey
Silver : Tom Evans
Bronze : Rossa O'Neill
2
Gold : Bren Murph
Silver : Roger Burslem-Rotheroe
Bronze : Bren Murph
3
Gold : Not Awarded
Silver : Not Awarded
Bronze : Bren Murph
4
Gold : Bren Murph
Silver : Not Awarded
Bronze : Not Awarded
5
Gold : Mark Lucey
Silver : Not Awarded
Bronze : Garret Geoghan
6
Gold : Niall Corcoran
Silver : Simon Jerggo
Bronze : John O'Connell
7
Gold : Kev Connell
Silver : Bren Murph
Bronze : Bruce McIntosh
10
Gold : Jacub Scheibe
Silver : Roger Burslem-Rotheroe
Bronze : Roger Burslem-Rotheroe
11
Gold : Stephen Povey
Silver : Andrew Behan
Bronze : Eoghan Culken
13
Gold : Paul Adams
Silver : Derek Foley
Bronze : Jacub Scheibe
14
Gold : Conor Maguire
Silver : Barry Davey
Bronze : Daniel Cesari
15
Gold : Richard Lubell
Silver : James Keane
Bronze : Daniel Cesari
16
Gold : Richie Hasmilton
Silver : Mark Lucey
Bronze : Colm Reidy
17
Gold : Roger Burslem-Rotheroe
Silver : Roger Burslem-Rotheroe
Bronze : Rossa O'Neill
18
Gold : Nathan Murray
Silver : Alain Dekoster
Bronze : Alain Dekoster
24 Cider & Meads
Gold : Kevin Summobs-Walsh
Silver : John O'Connell
Bronze : John O'Connell
Bren's the man to beat in 2015. How did Dean McGuinness get those last few medals over that swolen head?! ;)
come on lads give me something to fight for in 2015 ;)
I will even help ye beat me! get down to our famous brew-days and steal some of our secrets....we are in it for the social and fun passtime and really enjoyed the past year and all the events we attended and the dozens hosted...
I'm going to ask a dumb question: what about the missing categories? (ex: 21) -Being judged in Cork?
Adam
Silver medal I'll take that any day. Cheers fellas
How do we collect our medals?
Quote from: brenmurph on March 03, 2014, 04:02:01 PM
come on lads give me something to fight for in 2015 ;)
Fighting talk! There's still Cork yet. I've my eyes on the cat.9 top spot.
Has anyone thought about posting a "number of entries per medal" ratio????
;D
Quote from: lordstilton on March 03, 2014, 04:56:05 PM
How do we collect our medals?
In person or from Rossa in South Dublin
Sound I'll pm so
Quote from: CH on March 03, 2014, 05:43:32 PM
Quote from: lordstilton on March 03, 2014, 04:56:05 PM
How do we collect our medals?
In person or from Rossa in South Dublin
Any chance they cab be collected in cork in the 22nd?
What happened to categories 8, 9 and 12? will they be judged in Cork?
8, 9, 12, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 are in cork ( well 19 was on the sign for both of them so not sure where that is)
Thanks for the reply.
Just curious? Why did some medals where not awarded? and why one category has gold and silver not awarded and another has bronze and silver not awarded. Surely if there was only one entry in the category, it should get the gold?
Quote from: akavango on March 06, 2014, 10:54:27 AM
Just curious? Why did some medals where not awarded? and why one category has gold and silver not awarded and another has bronze and silver not awarded. Surely if there was only one entry in the category, it should get the gold?
You have to hit a certain points threshold I think. It prevents someone being the only entrant in a category and still getting gold even if their beer was muck.
"by default" the sweetest phrase in the English language.
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Quote from: brenmurph on March 03, 2014, 04:02:01 PM
come on lads give me something to fight for in 2015 ;)
I will even help ye beat me! get down to our famous brew-days and steal some of our secrets....we are in it for the social and fun passtime and really enjoyed the past year and all the events we attended and the dozens hosted...
I like your strategy: target the lager categories.
Adam
Not quite sure how to respond to that
We have entered lagers, hybrids, ales and stout this year some not judged yet ( english, Irish and scottish ales). We dont make IPA's or belgian beers.
We specialise in lagers as everyone knows and long conditioning of some ales including our spruce lager, lemon lager, Liqorice ale, beertroot ale, and 200 other beers in the past 2 years since joining the NHC. We also scored 46 (2nd highest) out of a large entry in the summer sessions with a lager and finished 2nd in the Lucan Bjcp with our California common ale. We work hard and share our knowledge to anyone who chooses to attend our numerous FREE events throughout the year.
Medals were not awarded if the beer didnt deserve it, all our medals were well- earned and perhaps there will be more reward for our hard work and determination in Cork :)
We would like to see a lot more people experimenting with beers that are a little unusual and the numbers of entries should follow.
lager outsells every other beer, Im surprised its not more popular among homebrewers, all it takes is a cheap second hand fridge some brewing skills and patience! We make very good lagers, all welcome to see how we do it :)
We strategicaly stayed away from the standard lagers, we could have flooded that category with our many coors clones and light european styles that we started brewing since Dodge's inspiration at he amazing camping / brewing weekend last year. Dodge won 4 medals last year and 5 this year, thats no fluke, he brews all the time and experiments all the time on his very basic eqiuipment as we do here in South Kildare We wanted to showcase some very difficult lagers (technically), which we brewed and succeeded with. An awful lot of work went into one of our beers from sourcing ingredients, to brewing, peer reviewing and conditioning to get kit just right on the night.
Once again and in line with previous quote if anyone wants to absorb some of knowlege especially lagers, get down to our brew days...we brew every week multiple times per week. this week we brewed an Altbier for a keg swap and a special Irish red for Ciderheads BJCP comp
Oi! I hope you're not belittling my silver medal in the lite lager category!
I certainly am not......read my txt tom...I clearly said medals were not awarded if the beer didnt deserve it. ;) Urs and the others certainly deserved it
We used a lot of our own home-grown hops for our beers as light lagers have very little hopping we didnt go down that road..we experimented with more hoppy styles
Too busy with the brasso to read the thread properly.
Took me a minute to get that Tom, because I'm reading it through the clouds ( on cloud 9)
Ok I'll get my coat !!
Loving that keg swap idea Bren, best idea since the wheel.
brenmurph
I think the appropriate response to Adam's post is :P
;)
Even though there was comments made about the number of medals available, if your beer was pish you didn't get one to maintain standards.
Quote from: Tom on March 07, 2014, 08:29:25 AM
Too busy with the brasso to read the thread properly.
I hope you are rubbing your medal :o
Quote from: brenmurph on March 07, 2014, 07:40:47 AM
Not quite sure how to respond to that
We have entered lagers, hybrids, ales and stout this year some not judged yet ( english, Irish and scottish ales). We dont make IPA's or belgian beers.
We specialise in lagers as everyone knows and long conditioning of some ales including our spruce lager, lemon lager, Liqorice ale, beertroot ale, and 200 other beers in the past 2 years since joining the NHC. We also scored 46 (2nd highest) out of a large entry in the summer sessions with a lager and finished 2nd in the Lucan Bjcp with our California common ale. We work hard and share our knowledge to anyone who chooses to attend our numerous FREE events throughout the year.
Medals were not awarded if the beer didnt deserve it, all our medals were well- earned and perhaps there will be more reward for our hard work and determination in Cork :)
We would like to see a lot more people experimenting with beers that are a little unusual and the numbers of entries should follow.
lager outsells every other beer, Im surprised its not more popular among homebrewers, all it takes is a cheap second hand fridge some brewing skills and patience! We make very good lagers, all welcome to see how we do it :)
We strategicaly stayed away from the standard lagers, we could have flooded that category with our many coors clones and light european styles that we started brewing since Dodge's inspiration at he amazing camping / brewing weekend last year. Dodge won 4 medals last year and 5 this year, thats no fluke, he brews all the time and experiments all the time on his very basic eqiuipment as we do here in South Kildare We wanted to showcase some very difficult lagers (technically), which we brewed and succeeded with. An awful lot of work went into one of our beers from sourcing ingredients, to brewing, peer reviewing and conditioning to get kit just right on the night.
Once again and in line with previous quote if anyone wants to absorb some of knowlege especially lagers, get down to our brew days...we brew every week multiple times per week. this week we brewed an Altbier for a keg swap and a special Irish red for Ciderheads BJCP comp
Bren you are the model NHC brewer and and example for anybody starting out in all grain, you don't need to defend your success, you didn't do as well as expected last year and this years result came from focus and hard graft in development of recipes, hardware and tweeking in the last 12 months.
I can say that with first hand experience as you have been kind enough to give me samples every time I've dropped by and its pretty obvious you are really getting the hang of this homebrew lark.
Well done and congratulations :)
Hear hear!
I'm looking forward to a road trip down to Kildare this summer, to Costa Del Bren & Kellie.
Dec osta del brenankellie is always open for visitors summer and winter... weekday and weekends.. we have three mashes done this week..mon, tue and today
We have just spent the evening trialling our new test batch setup. We produced our first IPA....just to silence any critics that may be out there that think we can only make lagers we have just moved into USA IPA teritory.
Because we brew so much we cant drink all the beer we make so we decided to make less ....so we probably have the smallest brewkit n the planet comprising.....
7 litre boiler
8 litre mash insulated tun
12 inch long slotted filter made with 1/2 inch copper and silicone hose compliments of someone in Bray direction
5 litre demijon
the hard bit is measuring 0.35gram of whirlfloc ::) any suggestions?
We acquired some of the best hops on the planet specially flown in for us from USA ;).... fresh as a daisy and top quality and we used a traditional floor malted ale malt. the recipe is secret till after the comp it is being entered in :-X
All for a 5 litre brew... thats where we r at 8)
wish us luck :)
Surely no one's saying there's anything wrong with targeting the lager categories?
Nothing better than a quality homebrewed lager!
And technically one of the hardest to brew correctly!
Quote from: mr happy on March 07, 2014, 10:57:42 PM
Surely no one's saying there's anything wrong with targeting the lager categories?
Nothing better than a quality homebrewed lager!
agree Mr happy... We will gladly challenge a blind taste /face off with good commercial lagers and ours ;)
A lovely well brewed, conditioned and SERVeD lager in the right glass with a proper head on it is what we like...heaven :)
Quote from: CH on March 08, 2014, 04:10:59 AM
And technically one of the hardest to brew correctly!
I will host a Lager / Brewtalk tasting day for anyone interested in lagers...
we have lagers (prob a dozen) at various stages including all our winning medal ones. We never get away with less than 6 or 8 weeks conditioning in cold conditions. we also play with stepped reducing cold temps versus storage near ice from the beginning. its nice to taste these beers and see how they change from week to week and often from day to day.
Quote from: brenmurph on March 08, 2014, 09:31:58 AM
Quote from: CH on March 08, 2014, 04:10:59 AM
And technically one of the hardest to brew correctly!
I will host a Lager / Brewtalk tasting day for anyone interested in lagers...
we have lagers (prob a dozen) at various stages including all our winning medal ones. We never get away with less than 6 or 8 weeks conditioning in cold conditions. we also play with stepped reducing cold temps versus storage near ice from the beginning. its nice to taste these beers and see how they change from week to week and often from day to day.
I would really like to attend this but if it's down in Kildale I would find it hard to get the time to attend. Have a sneaky suspicion this would make a very good video topic.
Shanna
It would indeed Shanna, but to taste results (largely down to what happens during cold conditioning) its worth investing in that second hand fridge! :)
Quote from: brenmurph on March 08, 2014, 01:56:51 PM
It would indeed Shanna, but to taste results (largely down to what happens during cold conditioning) its worth investing in that second hand fridge! :)
Have two fridges in my shed but in the cold weather they don't go below about 8 degrees as the thermostat is sh1t and the compressor does not kick in enough. Hoping that as weather warms up this cause the fridges to work properly. I have an Stc 1000 wired in ready for the day when I start to brew larger.
Shanna
Would a freezer work too?
What's the plan for distributing the medals from the Dublin round?
Rossa has them all and is overseas at the mo, anticipate getting them back through the clubs, do you win one sorry, I missed that, them miserable sods in your club didn't bring it home for you, I wouldn't mind there was enough of them collecting their own, the gits :P
Won 2. Rossa said he doesn't have them. I asked him last week. There is a voucher coming my way too I believe. ???
Fat lady has not sung yet although I gather she will do a lunchtime session in the Well on the 22nd, its all sorted in any case.
Ye Im missin a gold as well...maybe some fecker is melting them down ( feck dem cash for gold shops) >:(
"I was robbed" :) speak to Kellie, that was swapped for a bag of chips :)
Ha ha...........no gold was swapped for any chips!!! Paula charmed them from that fella, sure who wouldnt give a gal a free bag of chips having 2 lovely looking ladies in front of them.......... ;)
Quote from: CH on March 12, 2014, 05:15:31 PM
Rossa has them all and is overseas at the mo :o
"Careless talk costs lives Sergeant Wilson." ::)
Overseas in my book is Isle of Man.
Quote from: CH on March 12, 2014, 07:52:26 PM
Overseas in my book is Isle of Man.
"Its worse than I thought Captain Mainwearing, they've all got 3 legs over there. I've heard of 'third columnists' but '3-leggedists ???"
"Stupid Boy"
Quote from: brenmurph on March 12, 2014, 07:00:42 PM
Ye Im missin a gold as well...maybe some fecker is melting them down ( feck them cash for gold shops) >:(
I do in fact have a number of medals !
Bren - how did you lose your medal ?? Last time I saw it was around your neck
imark - what was your cat and I'll check the pot of gold here ;D
Ok Mark -
I have your Gold Cat 5 and your Silver Cat 16.
I am in town (grafton st) mon - fri 9-5 - so PM and I can meet ya and make the handoff !
With regards to the voucher - these will be all emailed at the competition conclusion -
Congrats !
Excellent! :D
Thanks for that chaps.
Would you have my silver for cat 6 and steve poveys gold for Cat 11. Wasn't able to make it to Dublin for the first half but will be in Cork for the second half. :)
and im owed a gold dont forget >:(
A gold for what cat Brendan there are a few we still have? You got yours on the night surely?
no I think Rossa forgot a category. It was a blur on the night, bit noisy, I couldnt hear what he was calling out. may have been the 4c
Don't think it was that Cat, but ok when he is back we will get you sorted and you will presented with 1 gold at the very least in Cork ;)
if you go back to page 1 of this thread I was awarded gold in category 4.
Based on the official list on page 1 I have in my possession the other medals, just cat 4 gold missing, Im sure itll turn up... :)
Quote from: CH on March 12, 2014, 11:29:37 PM
Don't think it was that Cat, but ok when he is back we will get you sorted and you will presented with 1 gold at the very least in Cork ;)
at least! :P with some luck...
Are the medals being distributed through the club's now?
Quote from: Simon on March 12, 2014, 10:54:12 PM
Would you have my silver for cat 6 and steve poveys gold for Cat 11. Wasn't able to make it to Dublin for the first half but will be in Cork for the second half. :)
Simon, I have those medals, will bring them to cork
Quote from: lordstilton on March 13, 2014, 08:31:57 AM
Are the medals being distributed through the club's now?
Mr Stilton,
I have the remaining medals, will do my best to get those babies to their rightful parents ASAP.
I can drop them to club meet ups as well
Once whole comp is over all medals that are uncollected will be issued through the clubs, logistically that easier to drop 5 off at a time rather than go hunting the country, they won't be posted.
Individual arrangements can be made for those travelling to Cork.
If that is not possible we will find another method, dont worry if you won a medal you will get it.
Fantastic. See you in cork!
Winners and medalists :)
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There's some great pics in there Samael.
It's a pity some of the winners didn't pose for the camera.