I have a couple beers I wouldn't mind entering, but I'm on the fence in regards to which category to enter them under.
One is a high gravity chocolate/coffee stout, and the other is a Rye IPA.
What do you guys think?
Many of us do it to learn and to improve. Everybody 'thinks' their beer is good. But if you send in your Pale Ale for example, you may get some comments that identify a slight off flavor that you never really noticed or pinpointed. Last time I sent in a Pale Ale that I thought was good they noticed a slight vegetal note that I hadn't really noticed. But I tasted that beer after reading the scoresheet and there it was. I thought that slight vegetal note was 'supposed' to be there (I hadn't identified it as a vegetal flavor). We all want to make beer that *we* think is great, this can be a tool to help us do that better. The fact that they don't know your process is irrelevant, good beer is good beer no matter the process.I'll threadcrap and say that I don't see the point of paying to have other people who don't have any idea what my process is, nor what I was trying to achieve with a brew, taste my beer. I don't really care about brewing a Pale Ale that fits someone else's concept of what a Pale Ale should taste like. Instead, I use styles as a starting point based on which I keep tweaking the recipe until I come up with what *I* think is a great beer. That's all that matters to me.
Of course, for whatever reason you guys enter your beers, I wish you good luck!
What style would a Jamil's Evil Twin be considered as? Just curious for local. I'm not ready to go national.
So who does this work?
What category is Black IPA/ CDA? It would be ready by then.
My understanding is that the answer is 'no'. It has to be a plain bottle. But I just checked the 2010 AHA NHC document and it doesn't specifically say. From the 2010 AHA NHC rules document:Can you use "branded" 12oz bottles for submission?
I don't mean labels I mean the glass wording. I think all my 12oz ones are Samuel Smith and say as such via raised lettering.
Or if not...anyone know a commercial bottle that is "blank"?
1. What kind of bottle is required?
BEER entries must be in bottles that are brown or green glass only, 10 to 14 ounces in volume.
MEAD and CIDER entries must be in bottles that are brown, green, or clear glass, 10 to 14
ounces in volume. All bottles must be free of ink, paint, or paper labeling other than competition
entry labels. Obliterate any lettering or graphics on the cap with a permanent black marker.
Bottles with Grölsch-type swing tops are not allowed.
Corked bottles are acceptable with the following conditions: the bottle must be 10 to 14 ounces;
flush corks must have a crown cap crimped over the cork; bottles corked with a stopper and wire
cage are also acceptable.
Odd-shaped bottles are acceptable if they meet the above requirements. Bottles not meeting the
above requirements will be disqualified.
Dammit I just gave away 2 cases of bottles only because they had raised lettering.
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