2nd Annual Garden County Brewers, Open Competition - American Ale

[pob]

For this year, we are looking for you to brew the best American Ale style beer you can.

Based on BJCP Cat 10 - American Ale, we want you to brew your best Pale, Amber or Brown Ale.

The closing date for entries is 9th May.

The competition will be held on Sat 23rd May.

Location: Wicklow Wolf Brewery, first competition to be held in the middle of a working brewery.

There are prizes for each category, with a grand prize for Best of Show.

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Max 60 beers, (Limit: 1 beer per person per category).

Cost €5 per entry.

Open to members of NHC or Beoir.

Full details and the link to the Entry Form will follow.

Please PM if you want to volunteer for stewarding or judging.

[marzen scorsese]

Is this open to all?

[pob]

Cheers, it is indeed.

(Edited title to reflect)

[marzen scorsese]

Good stuff    Splashed out on beer smith yesterday and first thing I did was design a American amber using stuff from a diipa I couldn't brew because of illness. I'll only need a few extra bits and should have enough to give the brown a lash too. Think I'll make it at the lower end of the abv scale and make it nice and sweet. Something sessionable hopefully.

[Qs]

Oh I'm planning a Pale Ale and a Brown Ale soon. Might make this my first comp depending on how they turn out.

[Shane Phelan]

All the beers for this will have been brewed during the winter/spring so the quality should be quite good.

[delzep]

Anyone know of a good American brown ale that's handy enough to get?

[beerfly]

Brooklyn brown ale is one of the bjcp examples and should be easy enough to get

I would also go with sierra nevada tumbler

[DEMPSEY]

TUMBLER TUMBLER YUM YUM

[Hop Bomb]

Tumbler is a lovely beer but is not an American Brown by style. Its got smoked malt in the grist & you can defo taste it. We did this entire category at one of the BJCP nights in Galway & Brooklyn Brown scored very high.

Nice one on the comp btw. Might brew an amber.

[baphomite51]

breckles brown by anchor is ridiculously good i couldn believe citra could go so well with those kinds of malts thats a great american brown example

[danger_zone]

Full details and the link to the Entry Form will follow.

Any more update on this?is the entry form up?

[pob]

Any more update on this?is the entry form up?

Just pinning down the final details, will have form live very soon.

[pob]

Registration & more info here

[pob]

Just a reminder to all brewers who have yet to enter, please Register Here.

Then contact your local club to arrange collection.

Entries close on 9th May.

Let us know, if you are bringing your entries to BrewCon 2015.