2015 National HomeBrew Championship

[Rossa]

Question:

When peeps drop off beers to a collection point what is required:

2 x 500 ml bottles
Each labeled with an entry label held on by elastic bands

Anything else? ?

Bump!

Plus the fact that someone who ise fairly active on the forum posted this:

"Probably a daft question on my part - when is the Nationals and how do you enter?"

The Nationals are not overly well advertised!

There is a website with all the info on it. nhccomp.com all the details are on that.
For those who are too lazy to visit it LordEoin is kindly putting together all the info into a sticky for the forum.

[Rossa]

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The Nationals are not overly well advertised!

They have been advertised this year more than any other year with 1000 flyers gone out via the homebrew shop deliveries. We have also trialled a Facebook push and are on Twitter regularly so non members are exposed to our message. For  our own members we have the forum as well as the president email before Christmas reminding them of the competition.


Anyone who  is not a forum user, basically most of the brewing population, can't be expected to stumble upon a thread in a forum so all info is on the competition website   nhccomp.com

Whether any of this works or not we shall see but with 3 weeks left we are almost at 200 beers and over 80 people have registered beers. You can't force people to enter  at the end of the day


3 WEEKS LEFT!

[mr hoppy]

I think Will has a point. For what it's worth as a datapoint, this is the first time I've seen the competition website address, and I've looked on the NHC front page, and put an order in with on of the shops just before Christmas.

[BrewBilly]

Are Grolsch bottles (440ml) accepted for the Nationals, I only have these bottle types left?

Cheers
Andy

[Rossa]

Are Grolsch bottles (440ml) accepted for the Nationals, I only have these bottle types left?

Cheers
Andy

Yep. They are fine. Plenty in a 440ml for 4 tastings.

[Rossa]

I think Will has a point. For what it's worth as a datapoint, this is the first time I've seen the competition website address, and I've looked on the NHC front page, and put an order in with on of the shops just before Christmas.

Was that order with hbw by any chance?

[helmet]

This may well be my fault. I dropped a few bottles in with Will over the weekend. I attached the labels as specified on the website, but I didn't bring the entry forms along as there wasn't any additional info on them that wasn't already on the labels.
Do I still need to submit the entry forms?

[winstonia]

Do ye need 500ml for imperial stouts?

[irish_goat]

Lads 500ml bottles are the standard and it's in your interest to submit them. Firstly there needs to be enough for the 2 judges initially and then if you're 2nd bottle is opened in the best of show then there has to be enough for 4 judges. This might involve the judges coming back for 2nd and 3rd samples if they can't decide between your beer and another.

[Bubbles]

Lads 500ml bottles are the standard and it's in your interest to submit them. Firstly there needs to be enough for the 2 judges initially and then if you're 2nd bottle is opened in the best of show then there has to be enough for 4 judges. This might involve the judges coming back for 2nd and 3rd samples if they can't decide between your beer and another.

Definitely! When I was stewarding last year I saw the judges struggle with one particular beer - the beer in a 500ml bottle had already been tasted by both judges and then proceeded to the mini BOS. By the time the fourth sample was being poured they were getting dangerously close to the end of the bottle. Not ideal, especially if the beer is bottle conditioned.

I think the judges can break into the second bottle if necessary, but what if the beer subsequently wins gold and progresses to BOS? Maybe somebody could confirm?

[shanek]

Hey folks a quick question: I paid for a couple of entries and yes I missed the BIG yellow & red note about clicking return from PayPal.

The payment went through but my account didn't update.

I am looking to add another entry but the website is looking for full payment (including what's already been paid). Any suggestions HOW to fix this?

Cheers
S

[Rossa]

Lads 500ml bottles are the standard and it's in your interest to submit them. Firstly there needs to be enough for the 2 judges initially and then if you're 2nd bottle is opened in the best of show then there has to be enough for 4 judges. This might involve the judges coming back for 2nd and 3rd samples if they can't decide between your beer and another.

Definitely! When I was stewarding last year I saw the judges struggle with one particular beer - the beer in a 500ml bottle had already been tasted by both judges and then proceeded to the mini BOS. By the time the fourth sample was being poured they were getting dangerously close to the end of the bottle. Not ideal, especially if the beer is bottle conditioned.

I think the judges can break into the second bottle if necessary, but what if the beer subsequently wins gold and progresses to BOS? Maybe somebody could confirm?

If the bos has 5 judges you really need a fresh 500ml bottle to give each judge 100ml to appraise the entry properly.

In the case of a bottle not being big enough the likelihood  is that beer just wouldn't get the same chance at medals round or bos as another.

[Rossa]

Hey folks a quick question: I paid for a couple of entries and yes I missed the BIG yellow & red note about clicking return from PayPal.

The payment went through but my account didn't update.

I am looking to add another entry but the website is looking for full payment (including what's already been paid). Any suggestions HOW to fix this?

Cheers
S

Could you pm me your name and email address and we can check if it went through.

Cheers

[shanek]

PM just sent thanks.

[LordEoin]

Bump!
Plus the fact that someone who ise fairly active on the forum posted this:
"Probably a daft question on my part - when is the Nationals and how do you enter?"
The Nationals are not overly well advertised!

I was going to put up a temporary locked sticky in the competitions section a few days ago, but instead edited the original post of this thread with a big bold link to the entry/information page.
If you think the competition would benefit from an informational sticky, I can get one up over the next few days.