Celtic Brew Off

[billneumann]

Entries can be dropped of March 22 thru April 4. Bluebonnet will accept 3/23 10am - 2 pm.
Bill Neumann

[ejonsson]

I hope everyone has recovered from last weekend's festivities. We had another great showing at this year's Bluebonnet! Not only did we successfully defend the Bluebonnet Trophy, we have given ourselves an early lead in the Lonestar Circuit. We didn't have very many entries for the Alamo City Cerveza Fest, but we have an opportunity to make up for it with The Celtic Brewoff. Several of the numerous Bluebonnet awards we had, are in categories that will also be in the Celtic. I hope everyone who won awards, or at least had good scores at the Bluebonnet, in any of the Celtic categories, is considering entering in the Celtic this year. The entry deadline is this Thursday, April 4th. Entries can be dropped off at Homebrew Headquarters.

[TheMacheteMasher]

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http://www.kobb.org/celticbrewoff/
3 Bottles / $8 per entry
Deadline: April 4, 2013 - This Thursday
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BJCP Standard Categories:
8A Standard/Ordinary Bitter
8B Special/Best/Premium Bitter
9A Scottish Light 60/-
9B Scottish Heavy 70/-
9C Scottish Export 80/-
9D Irish Red Ale
11A Mild
11B Southern English Brown Ale
11C Northern English Brown Ale
12A Brown Porter
12B Robust Porter
12C Baltic Porter
13A Dry Stout
13B Sweet Stout
13C Oatmeal Stout
13D Foreign Extra Stout
14A English IPA
19A Old Ale
19B English Barleywine
24A Dry Mead
24B Semi-Sweet Mead
24C Sweet Mead
25A Cyser
25B Pyment
25C Other Fruit Melomel
26A Metheglin
26B Braggot
26C Open Category Mead
27A English Cider
27D Fruit Cider
27E Applewine
27F Other Specialty Cider or Perry

Celtic Brew-Off Special Categories: Style Guidlines
8C Welsh Bitter/Welsh Mild
19C Russian Imperial Stout
23A Heather Ale
23B Celtic Fruit/Spice
23C Celtic Wood Aged/Smoked
23D Celtic Historical
27B Brittany (French) Cider
27C Celtic Perry
30A Scottish-Style Lager
30B Irish-Style Lagers
31 Extra Special/Strong Bitter ESB
32A Wee Heavy 90/-
32B Wee Heavy 120/-


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[TheMacheteMasher]

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Entry Deadline is today! Let's keep our lead going for the Lonestar Circuit get your entries in.

I dropped off three (Dry Stout, Bochet Mead, Cyser). We shall see how they score.

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[RyanD]

I entered a Special Bitter, if it doesn't score better than some of my Bluebonnet entries I am going to have to sit down with someone and figure out what is going on. This thing is almost indistinguishable from the Fuller's London Porter on visual, and the taste is great, not a clone at all but turned out similar. Longer finish than London Pride. Ours is on the right, it is actually closer than this picture looks, the London Pride is kind of blocking the sun coming in from the left.

[TheMacheteMasher]

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spot on srm. any scans of the scoresheets

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[RyanD]

This is a new one, didn't enter it in bluebonnet.

I do have a bottle of the Schwarzbier for you to try again, I'll see if I can have some fresh from teh keg too to see if the oxidation is from bottling or if you get it off the keg. Maybe club meeting next week.

[ejonsson]

Congrats to Bill Neumann, Winning 2nd Place in Other Mead. Way to go Bill!