National Homebrew Club Ireland

Currently 143 Entries (Cap is 400)

Current Entry update : 184

Ooh nearly half way there with only 2 weeks to go and I haven't done my 40 yet
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Quote from: CH on January 17, 2016, 06:52:42 PM
Ooh nearly half way there with only 2 weeks to go and I haven't done my 40 yet
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Drop away!

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214 Entries !

As I am less(!) pissed than last night  :- when this was posted I will comment:

Every time I see the Dambusters somat gets in behind me contact lenses and makes me eyes water!

Used to work in the factory that designed and built the Lancaster and I still have some of Roy Chadwicks original factory drawings.

Any ways, I assume there is an analogy in this thread between indiscriminate carpet bombing and precission targetting of (beer entries) targets.

Or am I still pissed??

T,is important to note that carpet bombing often doe,s not hit the target ;)

278 entries as of a few minutes ago. Just registered my few hopefully well aimed entries. It's my first National comp, kinda excited about it. 

Looks like we are going to max out

And when it's gone IT'S GONE!

Yikes

Up to 362 as of five minutes ago!

Get outta town!!

Quote from: CH on January 20, 2016, 07:09:53 PM
Get outta town!!

Not sure if being sarcastic............ ;)

317 entries

0374

Quote from: Partridge9 on January 20, 2016, 08:21:34 PM
317 entries

Really? It said my entry number was #362.

The entry number is different from the number of entries,

jeaus wept - its now 321

Say if you had a beer entered and some how managed to drink it all and had to delete the entry, the entry number would still be counted even if the entry isn't.

Just an example. Not saying I polished off a keg of pale ale and forgot to bottle any.  ;)

So when that happens,

the entry number assigned goes up by one for the next entry

BUT

the total entries drops as you deleted an entry.

If you havent paid, its no a problem  ^-^

Just Entered some there now & we are up to 409... (entry numbers)

Must be getting close...

If memory serves last year there were 20 entries there that weren't paid for or were drunk before the comp. 

As this is the first year we are applying a true cap there may be a small window for those on a reserve list which we can start in the next day or so.

If your entry isn't paid for by the closing date  it gets bumped out but at this stage we would urge you to pay for all your entries already, please double check your entry detail and that its marked paid.

In PayPal if you don't get pushed back to Entry screen your payment hasn't gone through.


Edit

VERY VERY IMPORTANT REMINDER NOTICE

This is a members only competition which means that your membership must be paid up and valid at the point of entry.
This has been done on an honesty basis up to this point, in the next few days cross checks will made between entrant and members list.
Your entry will be removed if you are not a paid up member of the NHC.
Sorry if that sounds harsh but the competition is being run with nominal central funding for the benefit of the members.

289 entries !

We're at 390 now.

I shouldn't have said anything !!!

Time for the remaining stewards and judges to come out of the woodwork. Looks like this is going to be all hands on deck once again :)

How many wines and meads are in?

Managed to enter my 2 and at the second one it said I was the last and no more. Phew :-[

Will it be possible to change category on our entries later? It's locked out at the moment and I might have to make a few tweaks once I've had a final tasting of my entries.

You should be able to log in and edit your entries, names etc
I don't think it let's you change the categories.
Sure try it and see

I'm sure you appreciate,  the admin team aren't in a position to facilitate changing entries after submission (of course entrants are free to update their own entries)

Can someone confirm.. if someone deletes an entry, does it immediately open up a window for another entry to be submitted by someone else?

Quote from: DEMPSEY on January 21, 2016, 11:09:36 AM
Managed to enter my 2 and at the second one it said I was the last and no more. Phew :-[

That's an omen, dude.. Give that man a medal! :)

I believe it does, but I suppose we will find out soon enough!

Thanks James.

Quote from: Bubbles on January 21, 2016, 11:24:59 AM

Quote from: DEMPSEY on January 21, 2016, 11:09:36 AM
Managed to enter my 2 and at the second one it said I was the last and no more. Phew :-[

That's an omen, dude.. Give that man a medal! :)

I can confirm that is definitely the case.

Thanks for that James2. ;)

Can I suggest that if anyone deletes one of their entries in the next few days that they post on this thread? This will give someone else an opportunity to enter a beer into these valuable available slots.

Yea , good idea !!

Quote from: Partridge9 on January 21, 2016, 11:19:16 AM
You should be able to log in and edit your entries, names etc
I don't think it let's you change the categories.
Sure try it and see

Yeah I tried but the dropdown only shows the entry category that you already put in, rather than listing all of the options.
If it's admin overhead to change the system, of course don't bother. I just have one or two entries that are borderline and might fit better into another category once I've tasted it again.

Quote from: molc on January 21, 2016, 11:52:05 AM

Quote from: Partridge9 on January 21, 2016, 11:19:16 AM
You should be able to log in and edit your entries, names etc
I don't think it let's you change the categories.
Sure try it and see

Yeah I tried but the dropdown only shows the entry category that you already put in, rather than listing all of the options.
If it's admin overhead to change the system, of course don't bother. I just have one or two entries that are borderline and might fit better into another category once I've tasted it again.

That's such a pity. I believe that the version of the software we were using last year allowed entrants to change the style without affecting the entry number etc.  :(

Well , I'm sure they are excellent either way !

Quote from: Will_D on January 21, 2016, 10:36:26 AM
How many wines and meads are in?

Enough! I don't know tbh only the registrar does and he won't say until after the comp.

Quote from: Bubbles on January 21, 2016, 11:33:37 AM
Thanks for that James2. ;)

Can I suggest that if anyone deletes one of their entries in the next few days that they post on this thread? This will give someone else an opportunity to enter a beer into these valuable available slots.

In the for sale section €7.50

Quote from: CH on January 21, 2016, 12:20:03 PM

Quote from: Bubbles on January 21, 2016, 11:33:37 AM
Thanks for that James2. ;)

Can I suggest that if anyone deletes one of their entries in the next few days that they post on this thread? This will give someone else an opportunity to enter a beer into these valuable available slots.

In the for sale section €7.50

Feck it, why not.. we can do it with U2 tickets etc.  ;) ;) :D

€7.50's a bit steep for U2 tickets.

Just joined up and registered in order to enter one beer into this... and missed it! My own fault for leaving it late. If any slots do become available pls let me know!

A potential opportunity may happen as we ask for payment for current entries and folks decide for whatever reason they don't want to complete process and delete entry.

Quote from: Partridge9 on January 21, 2016, 07:41:49 AM
289 entries !

Quote from: johnrm on January 21, 2016, 08:24:38 AM
We're at 390 now.

100 entries registered between 07:41 and 08:24 this morning.. Wtf??

Eh , weren't we 340 last night ?

I might be mistaken..

We did get 80 or ninety entries yesterday alright, mad scramble to get beers in

The paypal was getting blitzed

In fairness ,
they all appear to be genuine

And the window is a fair while.

We might have a bot.. who brews his own beer...

A braumeister becoming self-aware.. like in Terminator?

(I'll get me coat...)

And now it's done...

From the site:
The limit of four hundred (400) entries has been reached. No further entries will be accepted.

Who pays via PayPal ? ;-)

That's some amount of beer !
800 bottles ,
I hope johns car has a big boot !!!

Looks like I did the right thing and registered 2 last night, and not wait till after work. And it wasn't a last minute desicion, the beers just needed A bit mode the.

Also I clicked not stewarding but Im able to steward in Dublin, and I wasn't able to change it, but any ideas how I do it?

We can sort that declan, thanks for volunteering

I can edit that.

Quote from: CH on January 21, 2016, 03:07:09 PM
A potential opportunity may happen as we ask for payment for current entries and folks decide for whatever reason they don't want to complete process and delete entry.

How will that actually work?

If people haven't paid by closing date, will there be "second chance"/standby slots opened up?
Or is it possible that we'd end up with less than 400 after the non-payers get processed out on the 31st?

Ladies and Gents,

Firstly, many thanks for those that have entered in the 2016 National Brewing Championships.

We hit out limit of 400 beers earlier today with over 100 entries in the past 24 hours.
As we hit this 10 days in advance of close, a number of brewers who intended entering have missed out.
In order to assess the extent of missed entries, could any brewer who missed out please PM me directly?
We are not promising anything, but will see what can be done to accommodate as many members as we can.

The single biggest factor in making this event run smoothly is the number of bodies that present for service, Judges or Stewards and coordinators.
If you can at all, please put your name down for service as this gives us greater flexibility, makes the day run a lot more smoothly and allows us to expand he competition to accommodate more entries and entrants.

Many thanks,
John

Hi John, I put myself down as a judge for the Dublin leg but I'd be happy to steward instead if that would be of more use.

Quote from: Dr Jacoby on January 22, 2016, 09:02:51 AM
Hi John, I put myself down as a judge for the Dublin leg but I'd be happy to steward instead if that would be of more use.

John, ditto for me. Cheers.

Thanks for the support guys.
Once your on the list, we'll allocate as necessary on the day.

Just a point to note:

When you enter a special that requires you to fill in the 50 character box, when you try to edit the entry this data is not available!

Re: the Firefox printing:

The labels open up as a 1 page doc. If you just print then you get page 1!

The labels themselves are on page 2 or even page 3 if theres a big page one.

So to just print the labels use the page range box and print 3 - 3. If you get an error then theres no page 3 so print range 2 - 2

If you want all the document then print 1 - 3 or 1 - 2

Hope this helps.

Btw: Can't find on Foxy: Edit-> Print !

That is possibly just wine as it's a custom style, custom styles are dodgy in the system.

Just a heads up to any Kerry heads that the castle off license aren't taking any drop offs for the comp. I called tonight and the guy said he didn't know anything about it and he seems to be the manager in there. Not to worry should be able to get them to Bradley's.

Ok breakdown in communication there sorry, I can save you a trip to Bradley's if somebody wants to collect locally and pm me with contact details

@BigDanny, can you step up as a drop point? Send me your contact details, thanks!

No worries, pm you now.

Lads, can you show me any example how to label bottles, please? Just not sure how to print those two pages (print two pages on one sheet of paper?). Just a picture, please ;-)

perhaps someone who can an entry handy can take a snap

and post it here.

Dont forget - rubber bands are your friend - no dreaded sellotape

Quote from: bachus on January 27, 2016, 08:33:51 PM
Lads, can you show me any example how to label bottles, please? Just not sure how to print those two pages (print two pages on one sheet of paper?). Just a picture, please ;-)

Dude, I don't have a picture, but we'll have a chat about this tomorrow evening.

One page on one sheet of paper. The bottle labels are on their own page. Cut two out and discard the other two.

Thanks!

No problem! :)

Quote from: Bubbles on January 27, 2016, 08:52:11 PM

Quote from: bachus on January 27, 2016, 08:33:51 PM
Lads, can you show me any example how to label bottles, please? Just not sure how to print those two pages (print two pages on one sheet of paper?). Just a picture, please ;-)

Dude, I don't have a picture, but we'll have a chat about this tomorrow evening.

One page on one sheet of paper. The bottle labels are on their own page. Cut two out and discard the other two.

The first page in the entry form goes in beside the bottles.

See post #65 above!

Eh?

Quote from: Will_D on January 27, 2016, 09:29:36 PM

Quote from: Bubbles on January 27, 2016, 08:52:11 PM

Quote from: bachus on January 27, 2016, 08:33:51 PM
Lads, can you show me any example how to label bottles, please? Just not sure how to print those two pages (print two pages on one sheet of paper?). Just a picture, please ;-)

Dude, I don't have a picture, but we'll have a chat about this tomorrow evening.

One page on one sheet of paper. The bottle labels are on their own page. Cut two out and discard the other two.

The first page in the entry form goes in beside the bottles.

See post #65 above!

I think you mean #66?

When I printed mine out, they came out as 2 pages, with the labels on the second page??

No I meant #65 [specific bit to printing in firefox], Quote:

"Re: the Firefox printing:

The labels open up as a 1 page doc. If you just print then you get page 1!

The labels themselves are on page 2 or even page 3 if theres a big page one.

So to just print the labels use the page range box and print 3 - 3. If you get an error then theres no page 3 so print range 2 - 2

If you want all the document then print 1 - 3 or 1 - 2

Hope this helps."

Quote from: Will_D on January 27, 2016, 09:51:09 PM
No I meant #65 [specific bit to printing in firefox], Quote:

"Re: the Firefox printing:

Thanks, I printed but not sure how to attach to the bottle. Just only bottle ID form should be visible?

You print the labels, there will be 4 of them. You only need two.

Cut out two labels and use a couple of elastic bands to secure to the two bottles. I like to use two bands per bottle.

Note to any any one putting bottles(with lastic bands) into and out of fitted crates or cardboard wine boxes:

If not careful then the lastic band will roll off and the label WILL fall off and maybe get lost!

Quote from: Bubbles on January 27, 2016, 08:52:11 PMThe first page in the entry form goes in beside the bottles.

Oops, I dropped my entries off with labels attached but didn't realise the recipe sheets were also required. Would it be ok if I put them in a plastic sleeve and drop them off at the drop point? They don't need to be physically attached to the bottles like the labels do right?

Folks

     WE DONT WANT RECIPIE SHEETS!

Please do not include them they get thrown away
Just the bottle labels.
You have put a descriptive of you beer including adjuncts into the highlighted field, this will be printed by us separately and read out to the judge be the steward when he presents the beer

Quote from: Bubbles on January 27, 2016, 08:52:11 PM


The first page in the entry form goes in beside the bottles.

This you can keep we only need a bottle label on the bottle securely attached with a couple of elastic bands per bottle

Quote from: CH on January 28, 2016, 10:05:54 AM

Quote from: Bubbles on January 27, 2016, 08:52:11 PM


The first page in the entry form goes in beside the bottles.

This you can keep we only need a bottle label on the bottle securely attached with a couple of elastic bands per bottle

Soz!

(I'm sure that in the first Nationals in 2013 were were asked to include this, no?)

 ;)

jaysis, twist the knife, why don't ya..?  ;) ;D :P

Quote from: CH on January 28, 2016, 09:50:24 AMWE DONT WANT RECIPIE SHEETS!

Good, cause I don't want to give you recipe sheets!  :P

All except Dr Jacoby and Nigel C every one else can ...
Bubbles you see the amount of shite we have to sort through on 13th and you'll then know why  :)

Original (bullshit) post edited!  8)

Quote from: CH on January 28, 2016, 10:05:54 AM

Quote from: Bubbles on January 27, 2016, 08:52:11 PM


The first page in the entry form goes in beside the bottles.

This you can keep we only need a bottle label on the bottle securely attached with a couple of elastic bands per bottle

Thanks!
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We have a few from last couple of years alright

Lads,
Just one more question. Yesterday we had discussion about mead and corks. Can I use standard not-labeled wine corks, not a bottle caps?

Quote from: bachus on January 29, 2016, 09:47:33 AM
Lads,
Just one more question. Yesterday we had discussion about mead and corks. Can I use standard not-labeled wine corks, not a bottle caps?

Yep.

Me(h)rci.

I was trying to get the entry sheet printed to PDF on my phone and something has gone wrong and my entry has disappeared!

Must move Delete button further from the Print one  ;)

Eanna, please PM me Name and Category number (11A or whatever)
Thanks

We're at capacity of 400.
Thanks to anyone who pulled a few of their weaker beers to allow latecomers in.
It affords greater competition and will improve the standard overall.