The Great Quintessential Ales Competition

[sub82]

Registration closing tomorrow everyone!! Just a few spaces left!

[Acott]

Any chance I could get the postage address lads?

[Bazza]

PM'd

Cheers,

- Barry

[sub82]

Who wants some of this action? 

[BrewDorg]

An Post lost my entry. So I guess that opens up the comp 

[darren996]

An Post lost my entry. So I guess that opens up the comp 

It tasted amazing as well!

[BrewDorg]

Just wait now Darren.. they'll find my parcel and know you're lying 

[darren996]

Shh.. If they do blame an post

[sub82]

An Post lost my entry. So I guess that opens up the comp 

Ah that's a shame! Maybe it'll turn up?

[BrewDorg]

I hope so but I've given up. I have it tracked, showing it left Portlaoise on the 11th, but the tracking hasn't updated since 

[banjobrew]

Right everyone I can do lifts from the Europa bus station or central station in the morning. I'm in a 206 so that 4 (at a push) at a time but I can do a couple of runs. Let me know here if you want a lift to Brewbot.

[Leann ull]

Have fun tomorrow guys sorry I can't make it.

[sub82]

2nd and 3rd Place prize updates!

2nd Place

A box of 24 beers
(8 stout, 8 saison and 8 push and pull)
from the fantastic Boundary Brewing

3rd Place

£25 voucher for Get 'Er Brewed.

[sub82]

The results are:

BOS - Ciaran Doyle - 11C Strong Bitter

2nd Place - Ciaran Doyle - 13C English Porter

3rd Place - Larry Murray - 13B British Brown Ale

Well done lads!!!

[Leann ull]

Well done to Ciaran, I had the pleasure of tasting a beer he brought to a meet in Weatherspoons and it wasn't great if I'm being honest with one very obvious flaw. Ciaran was very attentive and listened to what we all had to say. The underlying beer was solid and clearly with some practice and tweaking he is now producing competition winning beer.
I tell this story as we all have made shit beer in our early brewing careers, the point is keep trying, take on board the advice from meets or scoresheets, nobody is out to get you or criticise and if your getting a consistent message look at your process, it's actually hard to continuously  brew shit beer.
In the meantime well done to Chris and Barry for organising and putting Belfast Brewers very firmly back front and centre by organising the comp and again to Ciaran, I'd be happy to buy his beer once it's been produced commercially.