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I'm a world class brewer who wants to get serious about entering amateur BJCP contests for prizes and feedback. Are there any contests that have serious judging with serious prizes and worthwhile score sheet comments? I'm only willing to spend an entry fee and waste even a bottle of my world...

What level of detail would judges expect for 16E entry notes? Should it be short and sweet, or provide a lot of detail, or somewhere in between?

The latest reality show where top mostly male but a few female brewers live in an actual Belgian brewery with real Belgian monks "supervising". This of course being Saison 1. There will be a lot of quiet introspective moments. Some heavy ponderings as the Monks judge the participants...

John Barleycorn Must Die Sad but true.

The olde bait and switch, beware buyers. Ordered the drill with a speed control and locking button, these cheese heads confirm the order, then ship out one without the needed features. Item 93632 no longer available, of course to advise the buyer they are doing the switch kind of defeats the...

Abbey Road Ale 5 gallons all grain 16 lbs. British Pils 10 oz. Castle Special B 6 oz. Carafa II 2 oz. BestMalz Acidulated malt 1/2 RO water 1/2 150 PPM water. Mashed stepped down from 140 to 120, then added 170 water to bring to 150 F. Mashed out with 170 F water. Extended boil 120 mins...

I purchased an AllInOne Vacuum pump today. Asked Steve, but he didn't know. If you use the pump to rack from primary into a bottling carboy, that first carboy gets degassed to some extent. Then when you rack from the bottling carboy into bottles, it will get degassed some more...

I never thought I would be a "stylist". Someone conforming to what someone else said defines a style. I am an "artist". Or so I thought. I thought brewing to a style would be confining, instead of expanding. How wrong I was. To research a style, to try to conform, is to respect the...

Made a rye saison today. I had a big pitch of Wyeast 3726 Farmhouse ale that I pitched at about 60% of into one carboy and 40% into the other carboy. Big pitch carboy I put inside an Ice Cube cooler and insulated it very well. The other lower pitched carboy I put inside a carboy box sitting...

I have a lot of fresh hops on the vine. A mix of Mt. Hood, Cascade, Willamette, Sterling, and Tettnanger. They are about ready to pick. I also have a big pitch of Wyeast 3726 Farmhouse Ale. IMF Red Belgian IPA 10 gallons all grain 23 lbs. palt malt British Baird's 8 oz Castle Special B 8...

I made a 10 gallon batch of a dark(ish) saison a couple of weeks ago. S.G. 1.049, split into two carboys. One a smackpack of 3711 the other a big pitch of 3726. Not sure where either is at finish wise. Guessing pretty close. The 3711 much slower to start but been strong and 75F into the...

This one may draw a little blood. Fresh picked blackberries in primary ferment, more of the blackberries in secondary. 10 gallon batch 17 lbs. Belgian Pils Malt 12 lbs. British Brown Malt 1.5 lbs. British Chocolate Malt 1 lb. British 50/60L Crystal Malt 2 lbs. Quaker Oats toasted 45...

10 gallon batch 15 lbs. BestMalz Pils 9.5 lbs. BestMalz Munich 1 lb. Carafa III 1 lb. Melanoidin Malt 1/2 lb. Caramel Wheat 60L 156 mash temp single infusion 90 mins. 2 oz. Puterbaugh farms Legacy hops 7.8% AA 90 mins of boil. Safeale S33 Fermented 68 F OK so I know it's not...

Other than real attention to BJCP style guidelines, any thoughts?