2012 National Homebrew Competition Results

Anyone else get their first round results in the mail today? I sent my entries to the Indianapolis site and got mine. My Great Golden Hopulation scored an average of 38 and made it to the mini-BOS round. That sounds good and hope it bodes well for the beer to make it to the next round. How'd everyone else do?

Making it to mini BOS does not mean it will go forward. I had 2 last year and neither advanced. I have not gotten my results from Pittsburgh and that was 3 weeks ago.

Yeah, I'm waiting fire my pittsburgh results too. Wish I would have signed up earlier and chose philadelphia.

brewtime said:

Making it to mini BOS does not mean it will go forward. I had 2 last year and neither advanced. I have not gotten my results from Pittsburgh and that was 3 weeks ago.

Click to expand...

Yea, I know the mini-BOS doesn't mean a ticket to the next round. I guess what I meant was making it to the mini-BOS is better than not making it.

At this point in time I would say those of us that entered in Pittsburgh will just have to wait till next Friday to find out.

Brutus Brewer said:

Yea, I know the mini-BOS doesn't mean a ticket to the next round. I guess what I meant was making it to the mini-BOS is better than not making it.

Click to expand...

True

One of my scoresheets said that the beer made the mini-BOS round, and it also says "Place awarded, 2" in the box. In competitions that I've entered before, this box usually means that the beer placed 2nd in it's category/flight. I'm assuming that's what this one means too, right? Or does it mean 2nd in the BOS round?

Either way, which beers advance to the final round? The 1st place winners of each category? The top 3 in each category? Only the winner of the BOS round?

NigeltheBold said:

One of my scoresheets said that the beer made the mini-BOS round, and it also says "Place awarded, 2" in the box.

Click to expand...

Sounds like you placed 2nd in that category. Top 3 per category go to the finals, sounds like you advanced. Nice!

StoneHands said:

Sounds like you placed 2nd in that category. Top 3 per category go to the finals, sounds like you advanced. Nice!

Click to expand...

Cool! Definitely wasn't expecting to make it past the first round, but I guess I got lucky. Now if they would just post the results on the website like they said they would by today (May 4th), that would be cool too!

Waiting (im)patiently myself, I entered 3 beers in Atlanta, we don't have our scoresheets back yet.

Stone Hands. I also entered 3 in Atlanta. I just got off the phone with the hosting site (Brew Depot) and they indicated that they have been working to get the last sheets mailed out by early next week.

Best of luck on your entries.

Paul

Winners posted.
I thought my Munich dunkel (Cat 4) was positively perfect. Didn't have a showing there. I took 3rd though with my Altbier (Cat 7) and I thought it was mediocre. My third beer, doppelbock, medaled last year (silver) but didn't place this year. Oh well, one out of three is pretty good IMO, although it's the one I didn't think would go.

StoneHands said:

Winners posted.
I thought my Munich dunkel (Cat 4) was positively perfect. Didn't have a showing there. I took 3rd though with my Altbier (Cat 7) and I thought it was mediocre. My third beer, doppelbock, medaled last year (silver) but didn't place this year. Oh well, one out of three is pretty good IMO, although it's the one I didn't think would go.

Click to expand...

Wow. I had two of those three, and I agree - that dunkel was amazing. The altbier was fine, but the dunkel... :cross:

Cleary my assertation that I'm not a BJCP judge is correct.

Congrats on placing!

I brew with my brother and dad. We placed third in Pilidelphia for our Traditional Bock. Just squeaked in but we're sending beer to Seattle so I'm excited.

I had an IPA take second

pretty stoked

My Bock got a 2nd in Atlanta. It got a 13 & a 19 in a local competition last month, go figure
I hope the score sheets come soon

There's already a pretty long thread going. Maybe we can get these merged?

This may be a stupid question, but is it best to refrigerate the bottles that I'm sending in for finals? I want to keep the taste of the beer from degrading too much before judging takes place. It's already over two months old! What should I do?