August 5th I am entering between 1 and 3 beers in my first competition held locally. Just for shits and giggles.
I'll have to do a decoction mash next brewday , was handed a 5 kg sack of gladfields pilsner malt , a bag of Pacifica hops and gigayeast norcal 1 and told to make a sMaSh beer .
May be only way I can get a bit more mouthfeel and head out of it and if nothing else it'll be something different
Best of luck to you! The hardware's nice if you can get it but the feedback is invaluable! Our County Fair discontinued their homebrew competition after a few glitches for a few years in a row, our homebrew club is looking to revive it.Entering into a local County Fair Competition. Interesting how this will come out. Quite a few people around here brew but don't usually compete. Hoping that my brewing buddy and I can bring in some competition with some good judges. Kind of rough to reduce to 5 beer catagories but we will have to work up from here. Will keep you posted.
Best of luck to you! The hardware's nice if you can get it but the feedback is invaluable! Our County Fair discontinued their homebrew competition after a few glitches for a few years in a row, our homebrew club is looking to revive it.
I need to brew my dirty Belgian blonde again and see if there's a competition I can get it in. Two coming up: Our local homebrew shop has an annual competition for Oktoberfest/Maerzen styles only, then they sponsor the attached brewery's homebrew competition. Will see how I do - took third in the Maerzen competition last year.
Noseybear is chuckling too.C'mon, man! We spend so much time telling people that extract is inferior to all grain! You just undid a lifetime of work!!
LMAO, more like it! Going to do an extract Helles tomorrow or Monday, depending on how other tasks go.Noseybear is chuckling too.
One thing about it is almost everything she knows about brewing is from asking me questions.
I guess I'm a better teacher than I thought. Along with good recipes from the LHBS!!!! Hats off to those guys!