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Paid for my registration yesterday. Questionable whether I'll be able to go but hoping for the best. hope to see a bunch of you there. cheers-- --Michael

Belgian Strong (is it dark, or golden?) aged on cherries will go fine in Fruit Beer. (you will find some dissenting opinions based on the language in 16E. Suffice to say I don't agree with them.)

FWIW, I thought the food in Grand Rapids was by far the best I've had at any NHC banquet. Philly was highly mediocre except for dessert. I could see skipping if I didn't have entries/friends with entries hoping for medals, but if I can go, I plan to be in it to win it. :D hope I can go/see a...

I leave them blank unless required. how the beer fits the style is what is important.

where is this competition? Judges shouldn't be seeing your recipe, FG, or entry name. The occasional exception is generally a pro-am, where the pro brewer may want to know if they can reasonably make the recipe before choosing the beer. The "can influence how your beer is judged"...

just to be sure, I'd do an alkaline mouth rinse here (baking soda solution) and taste again. To me mouse is more of a popcorn than bready, but I've called it bread and called it vaguely pretzel-like before, so I'd be sure...

In this case the 38, 40, 41, 35, second pair 36, and the 39 beers would all be pulled. You do not leave out the 35/2nd 36 (or the 38). and if, say, the 1st pair judged the 36 first, and significantly later the 38, I'd hope they tasted them again to be sure - scores for a tasty first beer in...

typical beers in a flight - I hope for 8, and for huge competitions with judges often stretched thin, am happy if it is under 12. Each category is judged by one or more teams of judges - usually 2, occasionally 3 on a team. There won't be a lot of pilsners so perhaps there will be two teams...

to answer an earlier question there was yeast in my New Glarus/English Bitter. Solid beer. Pils is my favorite so far. Made me wish again that Pivo Pils was distributed here. Alt was very good. if it had been closer to 40 IBU it might be on top of the list. The Russian River...

I leave tomorrow long road trip; 12 days or so 5 in Grand Rapids

So this happened on Mother's Day? curious if the OP has kids and didn't do something for their mother. Not that that makes it right, but I've heard of worse reactions.

my friend's beer that had only two bottles DID make the BOS round, just fyi. the judges are told if there is a bottle shortage. We had one at the amber lager table and we poured a little less and made sure the team of two judges judged that one rather than one of the teams of three judges. It...

if the old batch was still in a keg I'd say go with them. However in my experience Beer Gun'd bottles go downhill sooner than 3 months, especially with a warm couple days of shipping still to come. Perhaps you're better at purging that O2 than I am though... if you only have 3 bottles left...

44 Belgian and French Ales in St Paul. So somewhere around 5 teams of judges. Could be 4, could be 6 or even 7 if there were tons of judges. Each of those teams would have advanced no more than their top 3 to mini-BOS. so likely top 18 out of 44.. Best case, you were #4 and just missed...

very accurate. If the flight is small, and one team of judges handles it, the top scoring beer generally does finish first. However if it is close I will often retaste the top few beers side by side to see if we were being too hard on the first beer (too cold, or subconsciously leaving room...

heh. Yeah I imagine if we'd just had the World Beer Cup in Denver and Eleven Other Cities Spread Around the Country Over Three Weekends (Name needs a little work) they wouldn't be official results yet either. Amazing what $160 to enter a beer can get you. An entire staff. Anyone want to...

heh... with 4 regions official, on pace for 780 IPAs. Biggest category ever appears to be 630 Stouts in 2012. :drunk: hopefully the numbers of entries showing up in the other regions is higher. At the current pace the competition would be smaller than last year.

not gonna rebrew my Munich Dunkel, and both ciders will be fine. my cobrewer rebrewed our IPA already. Maybe I'll dry hop the crap out of it again. ...I cannot imagine in the old days of entering dozens of styles that people rebrewed everything. Sure there's a few like hefeweizen that I'd...

St Paul is judging right now. Started yesterday. Same goes for anyone with Denver or Chicago entries.

mostly true, just not after every flight. collating scoresheets into stacks of 100 and then filling pre-addressed envelopes from the stacks took about 4 of us an hour to complete the vast majority.