Club Competition: "Summer Beer"

[Will_D]

Who is thinking of brewing for this?

September meet is scheduled for 10th September but I would suggest a comp meet held towards the end of September say about the 24th>
?

We will need to have available 4 bottles - 2 for our selection and then 2 to go foreward to the grand final.

1. Will_D: At least 1 entry

[nigel_c]

Sounds good to me.

[brenmurph]

1. Will_D: At least 1 entry
2.  Brenmurph at least 1 entry  ( Thats if foreigners are allowed in to N. county )

[ColmR]

I plan on brewing for this. I had one attempt a few weeks ago but it was a failure. Beer's fine, but it attenuated to 1006 which pushed the gravity over the 4%

[Will_D]

Here's the link to the original thread:

http://nationalhomebrewclub.com/forum/index.php/topic,3116.0.html

[Jacob]

What about CO-OP BREW DAY to brew some beer for that competition??!!

[brenmurph]

Ahh cool  Ill jump in with Liffey..

so each club does a club comp den a battle of the clubs sorta thing??

[ColmR]

OK. So I'm in the middle of a late night brew! Determined to get this one spot on for the comp. Mash was nice and high and preboil was 1035ish... I'm in it to win it!

APA with some flaked rye (why not). Bittering with Columbus and finishing with a heap of Cascade and Summit. Half an hour into the boil and I'm keeping it ticking over nice and gently. Don't need this one reducing down to 1045 or anything.

[richieh]

I'll brew something for this for definite, at least one.

[ColMack]

I have something in secondary now that should just squeeze it under the 4% mark, 3.93% according to software.  It should be ok for September.

[richieh]

so when does this beer have to be done by?

[Will_D]

I think we agreed to meet and judge Tuesday the 24th at the Boro

[BrianC]

I have bottled today a Bitter at 3.9%
Fingers crossed it will be good for the 24th.

[ColMack]

Have we given any consideration as to how we're going to do this?

Here is Shinys quote from another thread:  I think we will have to do something similar.  i.e. someone not entering will have to decant beer in the back bar maybe.

It will probably be somewhere in between and isn't finalised but will probably be along the following lines... We are going to get someone who isn't entering on the night to give each of the beers a number in the fridge where they are stored, only they will know what number corresponds to which beer and who owns it. As each beer is served, they will be very gently decanted into a pitcher first to ensure that the bottles can't be identified and that no one is left with dregs of yeast either.

We will hand out a couple of score sheets to everyone there, which should be enough for all the entries. Once the flight is done the numbers will go into an excel document which will take an average score for each entrant. The top beers will be selected to go though to the next round. 

In terms of entry form, the steward on the night will only need two things from entrants, name and ABV. We will talk about recipes/styles/thoughts after the initial tasting which should only take two hours max. The main thing I want to avoid is people going "Oh this is XXXXX's beer so it must be good/bad etc.." which would skew the results.

[Will_D]

Yes A great idea.

As ours comp night is only 1 week away time to get rolling.
We need to know who is entering and who is not but willing to steward

Also as we are just turning up with the beers its up to ourselves to make sure the beer is at the correct temperature. Coolbox or loads of bubble wrap may be the answer.

So:

1 Will_D one entry