National Brewing Championships 2016

[Dunkel]

And I presume 1 x 750 ml bottle for the wine section?

[Leann ull]

Wine section?, is there one this year not sure that's been decided just yet and there may be  grouped into mead and cider depending on the number of entries as not many entries last year

[Will_D]

Wine section?,... as not many entries last year

Mainly 'coz no one knew there was a wine category

[Leann ull]

Oh so not true, wine appreciation society is next door, it will be frigging pulled pork cat next if this forum is anything to go by

[nigel_c]

Note I didn't post the recipe for my dry rub. 

[CARA]

Ill volunteer to judge and Simons can be Wexford drop off.

[Dunkel]

There were three wine entries last year. There'll be more next year. Even if you can compare cider and mead, I think wine deserves its own category, as impossible to judge in same context. I can organize qualified wine judges (as long as the wine judging is in the Dublin part).

[Dunkel]

And maybe a pulled cat cat?

[auralabuse]

I object in the strongest possible terms to anyone pulling a cat

[Bubbles]

Even if you can compare cider and mead,

I'm not sure why mead and cider were judged together last year. They've little or nothing in common with each other.

Sure there were probably only a few mead entries, but some of the lager categories had 4 or 5 entries each and they were judged separately. Seems unfair on the poor mead makers!

I think there's more of an argument to judging mead alongside wine. Mead is just wine after all. And there's probably going to be a lot more than "regular" grape wines entered in the wine category, country wines and such..

[irish_goat]

I can organize qualified wine judges (as long as the wine judging is in the Dublin part).

Deal. 

I'm not sure why mead and cider were judged together last year. They've little or nothing in common with each other.

Sure there were probably only a few mead entries, but some of the lager categories had 4 or 5 entries each and they were judged separately. Seems unfair on the poor mead makers!

I think there's more of an argument to judging mead alongside wine. Mead is just wine after all. And there's probably going to be a lot more than "regular" grape wines entered in the wine category, country wines and such..

Fair points, I assume it was based on the judges capabilities though. Davy from Tempted really seemed to know his stuff when it came to the meads anyway.

[dcalnan]

So I was a bit curious about what the main catagories people have entered each year so I did this up really quickly today



I could't find the information for some of the mead/cider catagories, so I left them out, but I imagine they're similar.
Its interesting to see the change in a few categories like category 17(sour ales), 20(fruit beer) and 7(Amber Hybrid Beer) rise a lot this year, and others like 14(ipa) and 23(specialty) drop off.

[mr hoppy]

We will also be using the BJCP's updated style guidelines, which can be found HERE.

There's a lot more categories in the 2015 style guidelines than the 2008 ones. Do you think you will be aggregating them, and if so, how is this likely to be done?

[Leann ull]

It's been done in the past on similar cats and number of entries. No decision has been made yet as this is obviously new territory.

[johnrm]

The amount of aggregation will probably depend on the mix of styles coming in. Similar styles I imagine will be grouped together.