Just wondering if anyone else from NB sent some entries to this?
I sent a few off and am waiting anxiously to see the results!
I was planning on it, but then lost track of the time and it was too late.
What categories did you enter?
Ah thats too bad!
I sent in a remake of my American IPA: Lupulus Interruptus with a different dry hop regime (cascade, citra and simcoe) and a remake of my ordinary bitter (The Bitter End - from way back to the 2013 NB comp).
I also did a few new styles, a saison, an oktoberfest, a lite american lager and a scottish export 80 which i had brewed for railcar and never sent.
I had a week off at christmas time so i brewed 5 batches of beer in hopes of them being ready for this competition, the oktoberfest and american lager were slow ones so i wanted to get them in the pipeline early
I sent in my 'Riley Reid's Choice Stout' that placed 3rd at Cowtown, and my Canadian Loyalist ESB (maple ESB as a Cat23 beer), a second iteration of the beer which placed first in the Beaus Oktoberfest event (although this one needed some more time for the maple flavour to fade).
I see they are getting lots of press:
- http://regina.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=588311
- http://www.cbc.ca/m/news/canada/saskatchewan/homebrewers-face-taste-test-competition-1.3025762
I'm still DYING waiting for my score sheets to come back from Cowtown and WertContest...
Same here!
In cowtown my ordinary bitter took 3rd and the IPA took gold at Werthogs but i haven't seen the score sheets from either yet.
The IPA that i sent in to Werthogs is a new batch of the same, but tweaked, recipe. I think the new dryhop improves the flavor by giving it a bit more depth but the judges will be the judge of that lol.
Results were posted last night, looks like my lagers did well but i didn't place in any of the other styles. I can't wait to see the scoresheets.
http://www.alesclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/2015-ALES-OPEN-Final-Results.pdf
Cool man. Congrats! - you should bring some beer up to Fredericton at some point to a meeting!
I would love to, i'm in St. John's NL for school right now so all of my beer is on the rock. I'm back in July for 8 weeks and i'll be ferrying whatever i have left back with me. If you guys are having any July / August meetings i'll have to try and make it up to one.