So Crazy, It Just Might Work.... Clonedog Competition?

[Saruman (Reuben Gray)]

I'm sure many of you know that Brewdog released all of their recipes as homebrew recipes scaled down to 25 litre batches. I can't attach the PDF to this post as it's too big but it can be downloaded here by entering an email address.

It might be fun to hold a competition, either BJCP certified or not. All entries must be clones of Brewdog products. The idea is to brew as close to the original as possible.

Brewdog are after any publicity they can get and might jump at the chance of sending someone, perhaps even James and/or Martin over themselves to help judge the entries. It could be a great publicity stunt for the club.

I don't have the time to organise it myself but if anyone else would like to give it a go, I can certainly contact James and see what he thinks. It could prompt copycat competitions around Europe. Brewdog already host homebrew competitions at their bars.

Would need the entry numbers to get Brewdog involved though. What do people think?

[Tom]

I think it's a great idea. How well 'attended' is the clone beer section of the BJCP comps? I suspect not at all. I reckon that not only brewing to style, but brewing to a specific BEER will be a real challenge, worthy of the real talent we have here.

[Saruman (Reuben Gray)]

Exactly. It will be all about process rather than recipe as the recipe speaks for itself.

[Pheeel]

Do we get extra points for the bottle being encased in woodland creatures?

[Saruman (Reuben Gray)]

Adding an aesthetic dimension to it? I like it.

[Leann ull]

Their clone recipes are all over the place, they seem more interested in the Michael O'Leary approach to selling beer these days and I'm going off them by the hour.
We should try and have a comp cloning Irish beers with a blind taste side by side comparison. I know the homebrew would win!

[garciaBernal]

Brewdog were breaking boundaries when a lot of people in here were still supping Heineken. I'm on for the clone comp!

[Tom]

Both ideas have merit. I wonder if Shane HBC changed any of his mashkits when the homebrewdog book came out?

If the clone list was limited to say 10 beers, the ones that are easy to come by plus the odd rare/hard one for the showoffs, that would make a manageable, interesting and challenging competition.

[sub82]

Sounds good! Would be a really interesting one to judge!

[Saruman (Reuben Gray)]

Judges would need commercial examples to compare against. 

[DEMPSEY]

Ye would want brewdog in. Also would need to set out ground rules as they have alot of beers

[Saruman (Reuben Gray)]

Only beers available in Ireland?

[molc]

Could be fun. There's a lot to getting those recipes right as some are off the wall in the book, having being scaled down I think. Would be really interesting to see the result!

[Pheeel]

I'd be in if 5AM saint was in the list

[Saruman (Reuben Gray)]

Has been available here for years so that's a foregone conclusion.