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RockStarBrew
Knoxville, TN
26 Posts


I believe only divisional medalists are announced Monday. Full results will post within approximately 2 weeks. That's my understanding anyway.

I want to know when prizes are announced! :D




Posted 34 days ago.

homebrewdad
Charter Member
Birmingham, AL
2480 Posts


You are correct, rock star. Assuming all judging is done, we will announce winners on Monday. Full score sheets will be a good week later.





Posted 34 days ago.

Chal
Wenham, MA
45 Posts


THANK YOU!
To all who have organized the competition and the judging, and to those who are supporting those activities: Thank you all for pulling together this challenging competition. I can't find the words to give you the accolades that you deserve.
I have learned so much from brewing four completely different styles and feel like I have already won. 
I am anxious to get the scoring sheets as I hope to improve on my one pathetic entry from last year. :-)





Posted 34 days ago.

flapjackcarl
Houston, TX
45 Posts


Yea, I figured it would take quite a bit of time to for score sheets to be uploaded. I'm still just excited to see the divisional results for each category. I'm hoping at least one of my entries can scrape out a medal!



Posted 34 days ago.

flapjackcarl
Houston, TX
45 Posts


Also I completely second chals comments. This is a fantastic competition, and regardless of the results I think it's really helped me as a brewer. For all of my entries  I tasted and scored commercial examples of each style, brewed each style twice with tweaks to the recipes based on my perception and feedback from other brewers and scored each beer relative to bjcp guidelines to determine what I'd submit. Medal or not this competition really pushes you to try and understand recipe design and with the ingredient restrictions you have to think vary carefully about what each ingredient js really contributing. I definitely feel like a better brewer as a result of this.

Thanks so much for organizing this Olan, and thanks to all those judging/stewarding/organizing the divisions as well. It's been a ton of fun brewing for this.




Posted 34 days ago.
Edited 34 days ago by flapjackcarl

RockStarBrew
Knoxville, TN
26 Posts


Agreed. It's been a lot of fun, and the American division requirements really pushed me out of my comfort zone, and I wound up with a really great recipe that I definitely plan to brew again and try to perfect. Thanks for putting all this together.

It's my first comp, so I'm just looking for honest feedback. I do kind of wonder if the beer that made it to judging is the same beer that's sitting in my fridge. I didn't have a great way to CO2 purge the bottles. 

I hope to have more time and expertise next year to be able to submit a beer for each division.




Posted 34 days ago.
Edited 34 days ago by RockStarBrew

mchrispen
Bastrop, TX
485 Posts


>I do kind of wonder if the beer that made it to judging is the same beer that's sitting in my fridge.

I feel like this is the area thatseparatesgreat beers from award winning beers. Even with utter care in filling and great cleaning and sanitation, shipping a beer through UPS or FDX is a lot different than a brewery shipping their bottles/cans through distribution in dedicated refrigerated trucks.

I just caught a UPS guy throwing my last Great Fermentations order 20 feet onto my porch, and the yeast inside were at least 90F despite a 3 day trip with ice packs. We exchanged some extreme words. I am glad there was no glass in there.

This level of treatment cannot be good for beer. That said - we treat the beer at arrival with kid gloves and get them into cold storage as soon as possible to let them settle and condition. I saw some extreme packaging (and some not so extreme) methods - and fortunately, no broken bottles. Just one with a leaking loose crown.

If it didn't cost so dang much to ship - it would make an interesting triangle.




Posted 34 days ago.

muzakx
Rialto, Ca
7 Posts


>fortunately, no broken bottles. Just one with a leaking loose crown.

I'm glad to hear that, and I hope mine wasn't the leaking beer.




Posted 34 days ago.

mchrispen
Bastrop, TX
485 Posts


I contacted the leaking entrant... it's all good.




Posted 34 days ago.

homebrewdad
Charter Member
Birmingham, AL
2480 Posts


I've had a couple of reports of breaks in Chicago (well, technically, Michigan), as well as a leaking cap there. I have reached out to those entrants directly.




Posted 34 days ago.

RockStarBrew
Knoxville, TN
26 Posts


My SMaSH sheets have shown up, but the PDF's appear to be corrupted or something. I can't open them on my PC or my phone.



Posted 34 days ago.

homebrewdad
Charter Member
Birmingham, AL
2480 Posts


Those are just dummy/placeholder links. No sheets will be made available before all winning scores are posted. American beers should be wrapped tomorrow night, Continental beers wrapped tonight.

After that, we still have to scan in the sheets and manually associate each one with the entries. Please do not try to access your sheets until we make the announcement to do so.




Posted 34 days ago.

RockStarBrew
Knoxville, TN
26 Posts


Okay, thanks.



Posted 34 days ago.

RockStarBrew
Knoxville, TN
26 Posts


Hey one more question, there are two numbers above the table with my beers in it that are separated by a slash (XX/XX). I just noticed them, so I don't know if they were always there. Do those numbers mean something?



Posted 34 days ago.
Edited 34 days ago by RockStarBrew

homebrewdad
Charter Member
Birmingham, AL
2480 Posts


Thanks for pointing those out. They may or may not mean anything. I'll be rolling an update shortly to fix the bug on this page.




Posted 34 days ago.

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