Club competition - W J Kavanagh's - September 24th

[Shane Phelan]

I need a pep talk.

TT

[Shane Phelan]

Overall a great night last night with a very high standard of beer giving the challenging constraints. Thanks to all the judges, I think there were 9 or 10 in total and our two stewards Padraic and Damien who kept the show on the road.

Top 3:

1st - Rossa (352 Points) - Bramling Cross Beer
2nd - Cathal O D (345 Points) - Wit Beer
3rd - Slugtrap (320 Points) - Weiss Beer

Judging was pretty consistent and I don't think there is any doubt that the best beers won on the night. Things were very close for 3rd place!


Scores are attached if someone wants to look at or play around with them.

[Hop Bomb]

Awesome graph!

[Dunkel]

Looks like a good way of judging - the number of judges mitigated the varying scores given by each judge for the same beer. Interesting to see the same beer receiving such widely different scores! Ideally on the graph all lines should be relatively flat, and most of them are.

[Rossa]

I believe so.

[Shane Phelan]

I registered all the beers and then Padraic/Damien served them in pitchers, poured behind the bar, in their own random order. The pitcher meant that no one could identify their own bottle and the lads poured it in very gently to maintain as much carbonation as possible with they did a great job of doing.

When we do the next club competition there isn't much I would change to be honest, it ran smoothly on the night and with everyone judging it worked out very fair and a bit of craic. 

[Dr Jacoby]

Big thanks to Shiny for doing the bulk of the work to organize everything. It went super smoothly and as he mentioned above the best beers finished top. I don't think there's anything that needs to be changed for future comps, except maybe tailoring the scoring system to whatever theme we choose.

I have to say I was blown away by the standard last night. Some really excellent beers on display with very few off flavours. Can't wait for the next comp (winter stout anyone !

[Shane Phelan]

I will get the photos off Tomasz later. I think he is in work at the moment.

[Shane Phelan]

Photos. (Thanks again Tomasz for taking the pics!)

[Cathal O D]

Good pictures Tomasz. It was a good night. Well done Rossa and Thanks to Shane for  organising the score sheets etc.

[Shane Phelan]

Scores from all the judges.

[Rossa]

Is that link working properly or is it just my phone....it says 0kb file size.

[Shane Phelan]

Yeah it mustn't work due to your phone, works fine on the PC.

Here is a direct link to the file.

[Samael]

(Thanks again Tomasz for taking the pics!)

Good pictures Tomasz.

Your welcome lads it's a big pleasure for me to make photos during the meeting.So enjoy c[]