Beer Bacon Music Festival

[rwagner23]

Supposedly to enter you can't use commercial equipment. Maybe an employee of Frey's won, then? I mean that could be legit, but it's not a good idea. Presumably since the beers were judged in Florida (by a contractor or something?) there's at least no conflict of interests with the planners. I met a guy from DE who entered in the specialty category with his homebrew (didn't win) but who works for a brewery, I didn't see anything wrong with that and I don't believe it was against the rules (don't think his brewery was participating, though I think they footed him the trip to do "market research").

I have vaguely good recollection of Frey's IPA--didn't fall into the same cascade muddle as a lot of others--but it was not a beer I wrote down or anything.

Maybe next time they should entry free for homebrewers, but everyone has to supply a 1/2bbl.



What a ****head--was he there? He knows what happened.

Again, Sunday was great, Saturday was really, really bad. Every single person who paid just for Saturday deserves a refund. Maybe gas money, too.

Judging happened at multiple sites. I sent my Barleywine in to Colorado. Other's FL. I believe the IPA category was judged by F.O.A.M members. The best in show was basically the winner of all the categories and judged by a "celebrity" panel. I witnessed the second place best of show panel on Saturday and my god that seemed to be an epic fail.

 

[rvklein]

Are you serious - They WON? Their beers were the worst of the entire festival! The Rye IPA was muddy and full of yeast, their other beer tasted like an ash tray. These were actually the only two beers that I tossed, although there were a couple of others that were bad....

Wow, everyone of the Frey's beers were terrible. We dumped them. I don't feel bad about not winning now.

 

[rvklein]

Wow, everyone of the Frey's beers were terrible. We dumped them. I don't feel bad about not winning now.

I don't think this is true BTW. Fairly certain a woman one, not Adam Frey as the rumors seem to be saying.

 

[fearwig]

Pretty sure second place was the celebrity panel. I don't know how they judged first place, if the mailed bottles didn't all go to the same place. I think it was in the event info.

EDIT:

The first place winners from each category win brewery-sponsored prizes of at least a $500 value and go on to compete for the final Best In Show Grand Prize of $6000, which is again judged by a panel of BJCP judges

I saw the second place judging and pretty quickly left after I didn't see my black bottle caps. Just a couple of old farts mumbling un-mic'd, didn't seem to be any point in doing that in front of people.

To be honest, it should have been a tipoff that the categories weren't even BJCP, and they didn't even make it clear what the equivalencies should be (it was mostly obvious, but they should be clear about it). Like, one category is just "Belgian beer"--so you can assume a wit should go there, but it's also a "wheat beer", so you have to just use BJCP to make an educated guess. Seems like the organizer had never even entered a competition.

 

[fearwig]

I don't think this is true BTW. Fairly certain a woman one, not Adam Frey as the rumors seem to be saying.

A lady possibly in her 50s won the pale category with an IPA, I think, I know a lot of folks took notice of that--Beth something? I don't think she won best in show but I could be wrong.

If the event manager could do so much as send an email or post something on the website, we might actually know what's going on and be, I dunno, jazzed up to do it again next year. The whole thing just reeks of incompetence. Sunday was nice enough I'd consider it, but I'd rather find an event that's less of a crap shoot.

 

[seank]

I don't know the truth of who won, but I will agree that Frey's beer was pretty awful. Guess the crazy names they had were an indication that their beer couldn't stand on its own.

Anyone know what they did with the Friday "drop-off beers" that weren't 1st or 2nd place finishers?


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[funnycreature]

I don't know the truth of who won, but I will agree that Frey's beer was pretty awful. Guess the crazy names they had were an indication that their beer couldn't stand on its own.

Anyone know what they did with the Friday "drop-off beers" that weren't 1st or 2nd place finishers?


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Excellent question! I wouldn't be surprised if they just tossed them. What a waste of time and beer! On the other hand they might have samples them and drunk the good ones.

 

[dangerbrew]

Has anyone gotten their scores back yet? I know I haven't...

 

[rwagner23]

Nope.

 

[funnycreature]

Nada.

 

[fearwig]

Nuttin yet. Supposedly they are coming by snail mail rather than being scanned and emailed (which would take like 30 minutes and save them $50+ postage...)

 

[funnycreature]

Got my score sheets back. The comments were very helpful although I scored only a 32 and a 33. Best comment for me was that it is a very drinkable beer!