National Homebrew Club Ireland

North County Brewers are happy to announce the "Be Kind To Your Liver" Session beer competition. This will be a BJCP registered competition and we're looking for beers in the styles below that are 4% or below. These are styles tagged as session-strength in the 2015 BJCP style guidelines. These are quite broad styles so there should be someone for everyone. We're looking for some great entries from around the country  8)

Registration form
https://goo.gl/forms/tfGvlYnRMTNARBJC2  (https://goo.gl/forms/tfGvlYnRMTNARBJC2)

Note

• You will be sent an email straight away after registering. There's a good chance it will end up in your spam folder so please check
• If you need to change your entry (up until the registration closing date) just resubmit via the form again. I'll remove any dupes

Details

• Dates


• Registration closing date: 4th June
• Collection closing date: 11th June
• Judging date: 25th June
• Entries


• Open to all full NHC members (active subscription at the time of the comp)
• Entry Fees: €5.00/£5.00 per entry (to be attached to one of the two bottles)
• Total entries per person: 3, max 1 per subcategory
• Maximum total entries: 50
• Drop off points are the regular folks for your club unless I say otherwise. If you don't know who those are let me know
• Styles allowed:


• 1A - American Light Lager
• 3A - Czech Pale Lager
• 5A - German Leichtbier
• 11A - Ordinary Bitter
• 11B - Best Bitter
• 13A - Dark Mild
• 14A - Scottish Light
• 14B - Scottish Heavy
• 21B - Speciality IPA (session strength only. Yes you could do NEIPA if you want to 😊)
• 23A – Berliner Weisse
• 27 - Historical - London Brown Ale
• 27 - Historical - Piwo Grodziskie
• The small print


• 2 x 500ml brown bottles per entry with entry labels attached
• NO MARKINGS. NO FLIPTOP
• Entry label only secured to bottle with elastic band, no tape or glue
• We'll award 1st, 2nd, 3rd for entries in BOS. Prizes to be announced
• NCB and NHC are not responsible for third parties not fulfilling prizes
• No walkins!
• This will be BJCP certified. I'm just waiting for the confirmation email...

If folks are interested in judging or stewarding please PM me. Any questions let us know!

Thanks
Phil

Yup yup, sounds great. Can judge and will throw an entry in anyways :)

Looking forward to it.

Thanks to the folks have that submitted their entries so far! If you're interested in entering this competition please fill out the form!

Thanks
Phil

I registered for this the other day but can't find an email. Checked the spam folder too.

Quote from: robotmonkey on April 13, 2017, 06:20:06 PM
I registered for this the other day but can't find an email. Checked the spam folder too.

Same here!

Is there a mail that goes out? Don't remember either.

Sent from my E5823 using Tapatalk

Ugh Google Forms

I just tried to resend them again. Let me know if you receive them

Thanks
Phil

Nope  :(

I registered a wee while ago, but haven't received an email either.

Sent from my D5503 using Tapatalk

Okay I see what I did wrong. Turns out what I thought was the From parameter was the To parameter and I was just sending it to myself. I'll get it fixed up :)

Yep turns out I was being a muppet. All the mails have been sent and you should have them now

Thanks
Phil

Yep, got it. Cheers!

Sorted!

Gose is marked in the BJCP as standard-strength but can have an og as low as 1.036. Can we get it included as it's in the spirit of the competition?
All the session IPAs are going to be alot stronger.

Brew a Bwrlinwr instead Simon  8)

 :-[ scrww that
Done one, think it was good but no real interest in brewing another.
Definitely brewing a Gose and it's going to <4%
Session IPA isn't in the Bjcp guidelines so there's precedent there.
You'll enjoy judging it i promise you

Do a Salted Berliner Weisse  ;)

Just a gentle reminder that registration closes on Sunday 4th June and entries need to be with your rep by the 11th

We're currently at 22 entries spread across a decent group of categories. Looking forward to it!

Thanks
Phil

Quote from: Pheeel on May 23, 2017, 09:16:19 PM
Just a gentle reminder that registration closed on Sunday 4th June

But its still May Phil!!

Severe case of jetlag??

Quote from: Will_D on May 24, 2017, 09:16:18 AM

Quote from: Pheeel on May 23, 2017, 09:16:19 PM
Just a gentle reminder that registration closeds on Sunday 4th June

But its still May Phil!!

Severe case of jetlag??

I am quite jetlagged. I modified it!

Submission form is now closed. Please get your entries to your rep by the next Sunday and we'll get them to North County

We have 30 entries and I'm working on getting some cool prizes!!

This still happening this weekend??

Yes. Judging will be starting early Sunday morning.

Yes Sunday and i plan to scan and mail out the sheets Sunday/Monday

Here's the prizes

We had a great day judging today with some fantastic beers! We had Mark the head brewer from Hope brewing judging the Session IPAs with us.

Gold, Silver and Bronze winners will all win a Hope gift pack of beer and a Hope branded glass. All got additional beer on top of that!

The winners are as follows:
Nigel_c: NCB - Gold for a Historical London Brown Ale
Beerbuddah: Kilkenny Brewing Club - Silver for a Dark Mild
DoubleG: Capital Brewers - Bronze for a Piwo Grodziskie
Sean Byrne: NCB - HM

Mails have been sent to all entrants with the score sheets. If you see any issues or have received sheets not intended for you let me know...

For Silver and Bronze I will talk to your club reps about getting the prizes to you

Thanks
Phil

Was judging today and have to say the standard was truly excellent. Truly a very high standard in what are some very tricky styles. Well done especially to all the medal winners - your beers were outstanding.

Thanks for getting the scoresheets out so quick lads!  Seems my raspberry berliner weisse was in the wrong category but very happy with the feedback - well done for organising the competition :)

Rapid fast scoresheets, fair play! Happy with the score and the feedback, thanks folks.

Really good job with getting the score sheets back so quick with some good feedback. Thanks for all the organisation!