Help with category for competition

[boltsonbroadway]

Sending in a rhubarb saison for a homebrew competition.
Technically rhubarb is a vegetable but some consider it a fruit
Trying to decide whether it falls in fruit beer - 29A or spice, herb and vegetable beer - 30A

What category would you put it in?

 

[rburrelli]

Judges don’t know your ingredients. Submit it to either or to both.

 

[day_trippr]

This one is easy as it's literally spelled out by the BJCP.
To wit:

30. Spiced Beer​

We use the common or culinary definitions of spices, herbs, and vegetables, not botanical or scientific ones. In general, spices are the dried seeds, seed pods, fruit, roots, bark, etc. of plants used for flavoring food. Herbs are leafy plants or parts of plants (leaves, flowers, petals, stalks) used for flavoring foods. Vegetables are savory or less sweet edible plant products, used primarily for cooking or sometimes eating raw. Vegetables can include some botanical fruit. This category explicitly includes all culinary spices, herbs, and vegetables, as well as nuts (anything with ‘nut’ in the name, including coconut), chile peppers, coffee, chocolate, spruce tips, rose hips, hibiscus, fruit peels/zest (but not juice), rhubarb, and the like. It does not include culinary fruit or grains. Flavorful fermentable sugars and syrups (agave nectar, maple syrup, molasses, sorghum, treacle, honey, etc.) can be included only in combination with other allowable ingredients, and should not have a dominant character. Any combination of allowable ingredients may also be entered. See Category 29 for a definition and examples of fruit.

And as it's not seasonal, it's specifically 30A...

Cheers! (and good luck! )

 

[dmtaylor]

^^ BINGO ^^

 

[boltsonbroadway]

This one is easy as it's literally spelled out by the BJCP.
To wit:

30. Spiced Beer​

We use the common or culinary definitions of spices, herbs, and vegetables, not botanical or scientific ones. In general, spices are the dried seeds, seed pods, fruit, roots, bark, etc. of plants used for flavoring food. Herbs are leafy plants or parts of plants (leaves, flowers, petals, stalks) used for flavoring foods. Vegetables are savory or less sweet edible plant products, used primarily for cooking or sometimes eating raw. Vegetables can include some botanical fruit. This category explicitly includes all culinary spices, herbs, and vegetables, as well as nuts (anything with ‘nut’ in the name, including coconut), chile peppers, coffee, chocolate, spruce tips, rose hips, hibiscus, fruit peels/zest (but not juice), rhubarb, and the like. It does not include culinary fruit or grains. Flavorful fermentable sugars and syrups (agave nectar, maple syrup, molasses, sorghum, treacle, honey, etc.) can be included only in combination with other allowable ingredients, and should not have a dominant character. Any combination of allowable ingredients may also be entered. See Category 29 for a definition and examples of fruit.

And as it's not seasonal, it's specifically 30A...

Cheers! (and good luck! )

That's awesome, thanks so much

 

[Bobby_M]

Can you taste the rhubarb?

 

[boltsonbroadway]

Can you taste the rhubarb?

Yes, you can tell it's there