Belfast Homebrew Competition

[banjobrew]

Definitely!

[sub82]

Sent a PM re. this.

Let me know if I've missed anyone out!

[robotmonkey]

I wouldn't mind getting in on this :-)

[Quiet_Man]

OK, seems most are up for this and running under BJCP.

What do we need to do?

Announce it? Let the rest of the club know a date and the categories? Then meet and discuss?

If we are going for it, we need just to get on with it.

[BrewBilly]

Count me in

[Quiet_Man]

So.......

The Great Quintessential English Ales Competition

BJCP Categories
1 - 8. English Pale Ales: A. Standard/Ordinary Bitter, B. Special/Best/Premium Bitter, C. Extra Special/Strong Bitter.
2 - 11. English Brown Ales: A. Mild, B. Southern English Brown, C. Northern English Brown
3 - 19. Strong Ales: A. Old Ale, B. English Barleywine
4 - (OPTIONAL) 23. Speciality English Ale

What about a date? October?

[sub82]

Sounds good to me! October should be about right, maybe towards the end of the month? Means summer will be out of the way leaving more time for people to get brews on?

How many entries should we be looking at?

[Quiet_Man]

How about Saturday 24th October?

The following Saturday is the 31st and Halloween, so it avoids family commitments and conflicts of interest for those involved in the dark arts.

[redshift]

How about Saturday 24th October?

Sounds good.
5 months to get something brewed and well conditioned 

[Bazza]

Okay so, having been in the periphery of the planning of one wedding so far I've learned you need two fundamental details sorted, and everything else will fall into place: Date and Venue.

So:

Date: 24th October 2015 (Sorted!)
Venue: I'm guessing somewhere where there won't be a big screen showing premiership football

Any thoughts? Upstairs room in Spoons, perhaps?

-Barry

[Ciaran]

Date sounds like its a goer.  Upstairs in Wetherspoons is also a good shout given how accommodating they've been for us before.   Sounds like a good time to start a poll for dates for a June meetup and get chatting face to face

[sub82]

Matthew had offered the brewery as a venue. Would need to check with him again as it was a few months ago now but that sort of area might be better suited, especially for storing and organising entries for judging.

[Bazza]

Ah, sound. Even better.

Cheers,

-Barry

[Will_D]

The choice of venue is really about one thing:

Do you allow entrants and the public to attend?

If you hold it in 'Spoons say (just like the Nationals are held in a pub/bar) you have closed doors until say 1pm or 2pm - its your call. Before that its judges/stewards/organisers only. Your local entrants can be there for the prize giving and the vennue gets a good cash return.

If you hold it in a Brewery then you probably don't want entrants and Joe public there at all!

After all for 60 beers the GCB comp had 10 judges, a couple of stewards, and a couple of organisers. Quite enough to fill a small brewery.

PS Many thanks to Wicklow Wolf for hosting the comp and letting us loose in the samples room.

HTH Will!

[Leann ull]

Pob and I are volunteering as consultants to handle

1. Entrants
2. Logistics
3. Handling of the entries
4. Venue
5. Judging
6. Prizes

Not to do it just advise and we can easily facilitate that on google chat.