Club Competition for "Summer Session Beer finals":

[Hop Bomb]

Im just copying Shiny's post on the Capital Brewers forum. When should we have ours?


Shiny's post:

"I'm just proposing a date in September for our own mini competition to select what beers will be put forward for the final. I know its ages away yet but I'm just trying to plan in terms of recipe formulation, brewing, fermentation and ageing time.
Info:

From the original thread:
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The inaugural mid year competition will be titled Summer Session Beers of <4%.

    The idea is to run it at club level at the local meet ups for members only.
    Each member gets a vote as to the best beer on the night.
    Entrants should bring brew sheets to show how their beer was made.
    Two beers get selected at the meet up and will be sent through to a national final.
    The final will take place in early Oct.


It is not a BJCP categorized competition so the tag line is 'Summer Session Beers of <4%'. The beer should reflect the following -  Summer in a glass. Light, refreshing, medium body, thirst quenching, balanced beer of low ABV (a lawnmower beer). Something to enjoy on those two days of summer we get every year.

Prizes and entry fee are to be announced but it is time to get brewing.

Tips to brewing a low ABV beer -

    Be careful not to mash too low and end up with a very dry & light bodied beer.
    Use different malts to build body
    Be careful to balance hop bitterness with the lighter body.
    Attenuation of a beer like this is key so choose your yeast carefully


We are a little short on time on this one but low alcohol beers ferment and mature quickly so get brewing.
More details to follow. [/list][/list]
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How does 24th 25th September sound as I think the 30th is a bit late?"

[Kevco5]

Last Friday in September is the 27th. Judging at our club meeting gives 8 weeks from this Friday which should be perfect!

[Kevco5]

Bump!

I brewed my entry last night! Just under 7 weeks left (assuming we go for the 27th of sept).

[DrowningManatee]

im gonna try a butternut squash sparkling ale - my first allgrain, done in a fermenter. sticking it on wednesday.

[Hop Bomb]

27th Sept sounds good. Is it one entry per person? (Beers must be less than 4% abv)

How does this sound:

Get your brew on & done, fill out the entry form & email it back to a club rep (who wants to take charge of this?).

On the night we match up the entry forms with their corresponding bottles. The bottles & entry forms get assigned an entry number (entry no sticker goes on the beer).

Il print score sheets so we can all fill one out for each beer we taste/judge on the night. Then total up all the scores for each beer & the top two scoring beers go through to the finals?

If this process can be improved on in anyway let me know.

Ive uploaded an entry form here  https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_cz54adDEInaElScW5vajNJdlE/edit?usp=sharing

[kev]

Anybody got a rough idea how much abv we should allow for the priming sugar?

[Hop Bomb]

Has everyone brewed their beers yet?

[kev]

Sticking mine on tomorrow, meant to do it a while ago but got sidetracked

[brenmurph]

ye ive 3

english light bitter3.5%, coors clone 3.7, english mild 3%

[DrowningManatee]

tried my butternut squash ale there but its not too great, prob gonna stick on another entry next week.

[Kevco5]

Mine is just about ready for racking!

[Kevco5]

Need to see what sort of numbers we're looking at for this, so who has an entry?
True to NHC style a simple list should suffice!
Judging will most likely done blind so no need to give any more detail than a name and number of entries'

1) kevco5 X1

[barkar]

Need to see what sort of numbers we're looking at for this, so who has an entry?
True to NHC style a simple list should suffice!
Judging will most likely done blind so no need to give any more detail than a name and number of entries'

1) kevco5 X1
2) Barkar x 1

[DrowningManatee]

kevco - 1
barkar - 1
drowningmanatee - 1

[St. Fursey]

all set for running this competition on the 27th?
I don't have a entry  On the flip side, I'm happy to coordinate the competition and don't mind volunteering as a judge. I'll rope in a couple of other impartial judges for this on the night.
Probably best to run the competition before we start tasting other brews...