I hate to break it to you, but MOST of the homebrew entered in competitions ARE bottle conditioned beers...the judges don't KNOCK the yeast at the bottom of the bottles...the judges are intelligent enough to know that in order to have living beers, you get yeast in the bottom of it...it a necessary fact of life...nothing to hate...
In fact most of the homebrewed beers in general are bottle conditioned...and also are extract beers...
I enter contests...and placed decently last summer....in fact the biggest comments I got this summer was on the CLARITY of my beer..one of my beers was describes as being jewell like...and ruby like...I believe it comes from the fact that I leave it in primary for a month..use finings to clear it, and give it a nice period of bottle conditioning, make sure I cool the wort quicky and chill long enough to eliminate haze..... In other words brew properly....
Plus the judges and the stewards know how to PROPERLY POUR HOMEBREW so the yeast is left behind...perhaps if you learned it, you wouldn't diss the yeast in your beer....If you don't respect the yeast as being an integral part of REAL Beer...maybe you should go back to drinking BMC...Or learn to pour it the right way...
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyXn4UBjQkE]YouTube - Episode 014 - How To Pour The Perfect Pint Of Homebrew[/ame]
NONE OF MY BEERS ARE CLOUDY.
In fact....Flitered dead beers account for a tiny minority of the beer industry, craft and macro...MOST decent Craft beers are still alive, and un filtered...that's why so many of us bottle harvest the yeast...
Here's a pretty comprehensinve, though outdated list of all the beers that HAVE YEAST IN THE BOTTOM OF THE BOTTLE...If you take into account BMC's and the hanful of craft breweries that filter and pasturize..you would see that living beers are in the MAJORITY...not the other way around...
Yeasts from Bottle Conditioned Beers
And the Belgians worship yeast SO MUCH in their beers, that they use a seperate bottling strain to hide the fermentation strain from people like me..
But they believe that LIVING BOTTLE CONDITIONED BEERS should be reveered...
If only filtered bottled beers from kegs were entered in cmpetitions, there would be very few entries in them.....heck the last one I entered had over 800 beers entered...I betcha less than 5% were filtered and came from a keg....
FYI....only a small MINORITY of Keggers filter their beer either...People keg not to avoid yeast in their beer (it's still there) BUT TO AVOID BOTTLING.....
So, if you think you have beer worthy enough to enter into competitions, don't wait to filter and keg....None of the rest of us are...