National Homebrew Club Ireland

Just a quick notice that the UK National Homebrew Competition is open for entries from ALL, as long as they haven't been brewed on a commercial system.

And the competition could always use judges.

The competition will be in Bristol, as part of Bristol Beer Week. It will be judged on the evening of 12 September at Wiper and True Brewery, and on Saturday 13 September at St Werburghs Community Centre.

The website for registration is http://www.nationalhomebrewcompetition.org.uk (http://www.nationalhomebrewcompetition.org.uk)

Roadtrip anyone?

I like the one entry per sub style per person rule

Quote from: delzep on July 23, 2014, 01:22:45 PM
I like the one entry per sub style per person rule

Prevents category flooding. Once had one person enter 8 best bitters.

It keeps category sizes manageable and stops someone cramming a category disproportionately full of their own beers.

Makes sense !

Is anyone sending over beers to this?

Brenmurph already has, and I'm getting a box together at the end of the week. You gonna enter?

Shud b able to send 10 bottles for 16.50 euros. B aware entries are 5 sterling each

Yeah Ive a few entries. I can send up to 30 kg with DPD to UK for 28e if people want to all go in the one box. I think GLS is cheaper though & they go by size & not weight IIRC.

Have a wheat beer that I'm half tempted to enter...might brass neck sending it via work. :P

Quote from: Dube on August 13, 2014, 03:28:33 PM
2 bottles by Royal Mail is only £4.95  (€11.55 via An Post)

If you can spare a bit extra and track via parcelforce. I've had too many parcels disappear and returned to me 3 months later!

Quote from: Dube on August 13, 2014, 03:28:33 PM
2 bottles by Royal Mail is only £4.95  (€11.55 via An Post)

That's a fiver I'd rather have in my pocket though.  ;)

parcel Motel up to 10 kg (bout 12-14 bottles) and packaging is 16-50 euros to UK

I know I'm expecting a few of you along. Anyone I don't know about?

BUMP
Anyone entered this comp UK nationals, anyone going across?

Yeah entered a robust porter, an American rye and an English bitter. Would love to be going, Bristol is an amazing city, but other commitments!

What about yourself?

Ye i entered 5 of our best but been planning this for months.  Kolsh, best bitter, scottish shilling, weiss and schwartzbier. Hoping for a result but we believe competition is fierce. Judging as well on de saturday and a night on de town followed by a sunday touring bristol

Ive a Citra APA entered. Both kegs are dry here so hoping it scores as well as it drinks. Best of luck to all the NHC entries!

Nice one brenmurph!

UK National Homebrew Competition (http://www.nationalhomebrewcompetition.org.uk)

well done!!

Nice one Bren & Kellie! You're on FIRE!

Simply spectacular !
A great flag to plant for Irish brewing across the water - I'm sure it will raise a few eyebrows!

For those not on Twatter, Bren got GOLD in Kolsh and Weissbier!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Is Graham Coates allowed to enter?!?!?!?!

Well done Kellie and your assistant Brendan ;D

Well done the pair of yeez!

Two more golds to add to the collection!

Thanks folks. As ye know we do work very hard. Does not always work out in case anyone thinks everything we enter does well, it dosnt  Our fantastic scwartsbier scored 16  not sure how but we will work on that. Once again testament to judging in general our 2 golds are the two best beers we entered and james & co, the weiss is de special recipe and process i freely shared since our weihenstephan trip where we got married. The weiss is weihenstephan weiss clone with some tlc and a fridge to bring the fermenter to minus 2c. The kolsh..well what can i say..it  is the one on oak cask at our kildare wedding fest. Ye all tried and tested it and drained my cask. It was the same kolsh in ncb comp. Very subtle and tricky beer to brew and got its just reward.  The rest our shilling and english pale scored late 30's 38 & 36 i think, happy with that. Its not easy to bottle package, ship to uk in advance and hope a live beer is perfect on presentation to a judging table as we lose temperature control and so on compared to taking our entries to a comp in our cool box. So overall we are as pleased with this success as our irish nationals success. Once again our brew days are free, open and educational...come along. We start our lager campaign next week, hop picking fest oct 4th with a fresh hop bohemian pilsner on traditional saaz

Quote from: Partridge9 on September 13, 2014, 11:39:07 PM
Simply spectacular !
A great flag to plant for Irish brewing across the water - I'm sure it will raise a few eyebrows!

Oh it did.. We took something like 11.11% of the gold medals on offer (http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14/09/14/aed13d752ffa01e7177f7dd677807fac.jpg)

Thanks everyone, we had a good day and I even dipped my toe in the judging scene :) very proud of Brendan I so wanted to hang one of those English medals on our wall! (Being English and all!) and he went and got me 2 Gold!! Whoop whoop he is defo in the good books ;)

Result!

Well done both.

Congrats bren and kellie..Great result

That's fantastic lads. Congratulations!

Congrats Bren and Kellie!

Fantastic result - well done the pair of you

Quote from: brenmurph on September 14, 2014, 10:05:03 AM
Thanks folks. As ye know we do work very hard. Does not always work out in case anyone thinks everything we enter does well, it dosnt  Our fantastic scwartsbier scored 16  not sure how but we will work on that. Once again testament to judging in general our 2 golds are the two best beers we entered and james & co, the weiss is de special recipe and process i freely shared since our weihenstephan trip where we got married. The weiss is weihenstephan weiss clone with some tlc and a fridge to bring the fermenter to minus 2c. The kolsh..well what can i say..it  is the one on oak cask at our kildare wedding fest. Ye all tried and tested it and drained my cask. It was the same kolsh in ncb comp. Very subtle and tricky beer to brew and got its just reward.  The rest our shilling and english pale scored late 30's 38 & 36 i think, happy with that. Its not easy to bottle package, ship to uk in advance and hope a live beer is perfect on presentation to a judging table as we lose temperature control and so on compared to taking our entries to a comp in our cool box. So overall we are as pleased with this success as our irish nationals success. Once again our brew days are free, open and educational...come along. We start our lager campaign next week, hop picking fest oct 4th with a fresh hop bohemian pilsner on traditional saaz

I'm new but...what's the story with the brew days? I'm always up for learning, but based in Sutton with limited ability to travel unless I take kids :-)

And always good to learn from an expert...

John

Brew days are an opportunity for people to meet, have beer, make and share beer.
Well worth going to if you can make it.

Quote from: bigvalen on September 15, 2014, 06:27:24 PM

Quote from: brenmurph on September 14, 2014, 10:05:03 AM
Thanks folks. As ye know we do work very hard. Does not always work out in case anyone thinks everything we enter does well, it dosnt  Our fantastic scwartsbier scored 16  not sure how but we will work on that. Once again testament to judging in general our 2 golds are the two best beers we entered and james & co, the weiss is de special recipe and process i freely shared since our weihenstephan trip where we got married. The weiss is weihenstephan weiss clone with some tlc and a fridge to bring the fermenter to minus 2c. The kolsh..well what can i say..it  is the one on oak cask at our kildare wedding fest. Ye all tried and tested it and drained my cask. It was the same kolsh in ncb comp. Very subtle and tricky beer to brew and got its just reward.  The rest our shilling and english pale scored late 30's 38 & 36 i think, happy with that. Its not easy to bottle package, ship to uk in advance and hope a live beer is perfect on presentation to a judging table as we lose temperature control and so on compared to taking our entries to a comp in our cool box. So overall we are as pleased with this success as our irish nationals success. Once again our brew days are free, open and educational...come along. We start our lager campaign next week, hop picking fest oct 4th with a fresh hop bohemian pilsner on traditional saaz

I'm new but...what's the story with the brew days? I'm always up for learning, but based in Sutton with limited ability to travel unless I take kids :-)

And always good to learn from an expert...

John

Don't forget the NCB brew day at the Rugby club (Oct 4th) - we love kids - they can run riot arounf the place - indoors outdoors - swing on the bars, kick the S**t* out of rugby balls!!

Well thats what the members kids do anyway!

Guest' kids are usually better behaved!

+1 johnrm. If you want to learn how to make all grain beer, you can't beat Bren & Kellie's brewdays in South Kildare  :)

And well done Kellie by the way! Shame you had to share the glory with that other fella  :P

Just seen Will has posted a reply - North County Brewers are definitely your nearest/local club  :)