Homebrew Survey!

[HopDevil7]

As I am relatively new to homebrewing, I thought it'd be a fun experience to get to know some of the fellow homebrewers on here with a short survey of sorts.

1. When did you start brewing?
2. Approximately how many batches and/or gallons have you brewed (guess)?
3. How many homebrew competitions have you entered in (estimate)?
4. What was the highest score you've ever achieved at a competition and what was the style (links to recipes encouraged!)?
5. How many best of show awards have you won?
6. How many gold medals have you won?
7. How many total medals (1st - 3rd) have you won?
8. What is your favorite/best beer you brew (links to recipes encouraged!)?


I will start:
1. When did you start brewing? I dabbled in college, but not consistently until December 2016
2. Approximately how many batches and/or gallons have you brewed (guess)? 10 batches; 37 gallons
3. How many homebrew competitions have you entered in (estimate)? 0 - but eager to get started
4. What was the highest score you've ever achieved at a competition and what was the style (links to recipes encouraged!)? NA
5. How many best of show awards have you won? NA
6. How many gold medals have you won? NA
7. How many total medals (1st - 3rd) have you won? NA
8. What is your favorite/best beer you brew (links to recipes encouraged!)? Pliny the Elder Clone (link) favorite/best thus far


Your participation is appreciated! :rockin:

 

[MaryB]

Early 80's
Thousands
0
NA
NA
NA
NA
My own recipe Strong Bitter

 

[Raoul_Duke_PhD]

1. When did you start brewing? 2014
2. Approximately how many batches and/or gallons have you brewed (guess)? 150
3. How many homebrew competitions have you entered in (estimate)? 5
4. What was the highest score you've ever achieved at a competition and what was the style (links to recipes encouraged!)? 45 (American Stout)
5. How many best of show awards have you won? 1
6. How many gold medals have you won? 2
7. How many total medals (1st - 3rd) have you won? 3 - 2 Golds, Silver Medal at GABF Pro-Am 2016
8. What is your favorite/best beer you brew (links to recipes encouraged!)? English IPA

 

[svt412]

1. When did you start brewing? Feb/March 2017?
2. Approximately how many batches and/or gallons have you brewed (guess)? 6 batches
3. How many homebrew competitions have you entered in (estimate)? None Yet
4. What was the highest score you've ever achieved at a competition and what was the style (links to recipes encouraged!)? NA
5. How many best of show awards have you won? NA
6. How many gold medals have you won? NA
7. How many total medals (1st - 3rd) have you won? NA
8. What is your favorite/best beer you brew (links to recipes encouraged!)? Just packaged a Hefe last weekend that I think is my best so far.

 

[dstockwell]

1. When did you start brewing? July 2015
2. Approximately how many batches and/or gallons have you brewed (guess)? 90 (3G batches)
3. How many homebrew competitions have you entered in (estimate)?1, competition is May 27/28
4. What was the highest score you've ever achieved at a competition and what was the style (links to recipes encouraged!)? NA
5. How many best of show awards have you won? NA
6. How many gold medals have you won? NA
7. How many total medals (1st - 3rd) have you won? NA
8. What is your favorite/best beer you brew (links to recipes encouraged!)? So many to list

 

[mrdauber64]

1. When did you start brewing? 2011
2. Approximately how many batches and/or gallons have you brewed (guess)? 89 - 5 Gallon batches
3. How many homebrew competitions have you entered in (estimate)? - 5
4. What was the highest score you've ever achieved at a competition and what was the style (links to recipes encouraged!)? - 42 - Fresh Hopped Red IPA
5. How many best of show awards have you won? - 0
6. How many gold medals have you won? - 1
7. How many total medals (1st - 3rd) have you won? 4
8. What is your favorite/best beer you brew (links to recipes encouraged!)? I love to make my single malt - double hop West Coast IPA's. I like playing with the hop combos. I also just made a PB Oatmeal Stout that turned out fantastic. Also I make a good cream ale.

 

[SGTSparty]

1. When did you start brewing? 2013
2. Approximately how many batches and/or gallons have you brewed (guess)? 20
3. How many homebrew competitions have you entered in (estimate)? 0
4. What was the highest score you've ever achieved at a competition and what was the style (links to recipes encouraged!)? NA
5. How many best of show awards have you won? NA
6. How many gold medals have you won? NA
7. How many total medals (1st - 3rd) have you won? NA
8. What is your favorite/best beer you brew (links to recipes encouraged!)? Yoopers Oatmeal Stout,
Blue Moon Clone

 

[kh54s10]

1. When did you start brewing? July 1 2011
2. Approximately how many batches and/or gallons have you brewed (guess)? 93 batches, most were 5 gallons
3. How many homebrew competitions have you entered in (estimate)? 0
4. What was the highest score you've ever achieved at a competition and what was the style (links to recipes encouraged!)? NA
5. How many best of show awards have you won? NA
6. How many gold medals have you won? NA
7. How many total medals (1st - 3rd) have you won? NA
8. What is your favorite/best beer you brew (links to recipes encouraged!)? Spaghetti Squash Ale.

 

[Jtk78]

1. When did you start brewing? Nov 2016
2. Approximately how many batches and/or gallons have you brewed (guess)? 7 batches, 37 gallons
3. How many homebrew competitions have you entered in (estimate)? None, but would like to sooner than later.
4. What was the highest score you've ever achieved at a competition and what was the style (links to recipes encouraged!)? N/A
5. How many best of show awards have you won? N/A
6. How many gold medals have you won? N/A
7. How many total medals (1st - 3rd) have you won? N/A
8. What is your favorite/best beer you brew (links to recipes encouraged!)? It seems to be the most recent one, so currently my coffee stout. I do not have the recipe with me currently.

 

[Mainer]

1. When did you start brewing? January 2016
2. Approximately how many batches and/or gallons have you brewed (guess)? 21 batches, 105 gallons
3. How many homebrew competitions have you entered in (estimate)? 0
4. What was the highest score you've ever achieved at a competition and what was the style (links to recipes encouraged!)? N/A
5. How many best of show awards have you won? N/A
6. How many gold medals have you won? N/A
7. How many total medals (1st - 3rd) have you won? N/A
8. What is your favorite/best beer you brew (links to recipes encouraged!)? Anise & Cardamom Smoked Baltic Porter, my own recipe. Although my wife really liked last summer's Berliner Weisse. She claimed the whole batch. If I want a bottle, I have to ask her for one.

 

[MarshmallowBlue]

1. When did you start brewing? 2011
2. Approximately how many batches and/or gallons have you brewed (guess)? 86.5 Gallons - Between 18 mead batches and 22 beer batches
3. How many homebrew competitions have you entered in (estimate)? 0
4. What was the highest score you've ever achieved at a competition and what was the style (links to recipes encouraged!)? 0
5. How many best of show awards have you won? 0
6. How many gold medals have you won?0
7. How many total medals (1st - 3rd) have you won?0
8. What is your favorite/best beer you brew (links to recipes encouraged!)? Blonde Ale with Amarillo http://hivemindmead.com/grain-blonde-ale-version-two/

 

[mongoose33]

As I am relatively new to homebrewing, I thought it'd be a fun experience to get to know some of the fellow homebrewers on here with a short survey of sorts.

1. When did you start brewing?
2. Approximately how many batches and/or gallons have you brewed (guess)?
3. How many homebrew competitions have you entered in (estimate)?
4. What was the highest score you've ever achieved at a competition and what was the style (links to recipes encouraged!)?
5. How many best of show awards have you won?
6. How many gold medals have you won?
7. How many total medals (1st - 3rd) have you won?
8. What is your favorite/best beer you brew (links to recipes encouraged!)?

1. Early December, 2015. I remember what it's like to be a newbie.
2. 32 batches, 29 of which are all-grain. Last three, BIAB.
3. 2, if you count my LHBC throwdowns. No formal ones.
4. 0
5. 0
6. 0
7. 0
8. Tossup--Funky Rye, California Common, SMASH. Depends on my mood.

Certainly success in competitions is one way to judge success. There are other ways, too. A local friend has a palate most could kill for, if I can please him with one of my beers, it's just like winning a medal.

Didn't win the German Pils throwdown last month; not enough hoppiness for the style sheet. But when I put a that beer out for sampling, it disappeared. I put out another bottle and the beer in it, too, disappeared. Other bottles sat, half-full. People liked it, came back for more. I don't particularly care for the hop profile, or maybe it's the yeast, but that's just taste. It's clean, it's crystal clear, and what's most important, others like it.

That's a medal to me!

 

[Mainer]

Certainly success in competitions is one way to judge success. There are other ways, too. A local friend has a palate most could kill for, if I can please him with one of my beers, it's just like winning a medal.

Heh. I know what you mean. My coworker's SO owns a small brewery, and he regularly gives me tasting notes. When he tried my rauchbier and gave only positive notes, I was pretty delighted.

 

[TomVA]

1. When did you start brewing? November, 2016
2. Approximately how many batches and/or gallons have you brewed (guess)? 10 batches, 29 gal
3. How many homebrew competitions have you entered in (estimate)? 0
4. What was the highest score you've ever achieved at a competition and what was the style (links to recipes encouraged!)? NA
5. How many best of show awards have you won? NA
6. How many gold medals have you won? NA
7. How many total medals (1st - 3rd) have you won? NA
8. What is your favorite/best beer you brew (links to recipes encouraged!)? Toss up between Cream Stout and Best Bitter

TomVA

 

[20grit]

1. When did you start brewing? On my own: 2015. I've been around it since childhood.
2. Approximately how many batches and/or gallons have you brewed (guess)? A few
3. How many homebrew competitions have you entered in (estimate)? 1
4. What was the highest score you've ever achieved at a competition and what was the style (links to recipes encouraged!)? 46. Brown Porter
5. How many best of show awards have you won? 0
6. How many gold medals have you won? 1
7. How many total medals (1st - 3rd) have you won? 1
8. What is your favorite/best beer you brew (links to recipes encouraged!)? Brown Porter

 

[DemonsRun]

1. When did you start brewing? Dabbled when younger, had own setup and went all grain 2014
2. Approximately how many batches and/or gallons have you brewed (guess)? 78+ batches since 2014: 65 (3.5gal), 12 (10gal), 1 (7BBL)
3. How many homebrew competitions have you entered in (estimate)? 2
4. What was the highest score you've ever achieved at a competition and what was the style (links to recipes encouraged!)? 38 (Mixed style IPA/Saison), 37 (Barrel Aged Coffee Stout/ non-aged Coffee Stout) 35 (Vienna Lager)
5. How many best of show awards have you won? 0 (made it to Mini-BOS in philly this year but no further)
6. How many gold medals have you won? 0
7. How many total medals (1st - 3rd) have you won? 0
8. What is your favorite/best beer you brew (links to recipes encouraged!)? Love 'em all

 

[allanmorgan]

1. When did you start brewing? March, 2015
2. Approximately how many batches and/or gallons have you brewed (guess)? Too many to remember/~40 gallons
3. How many homebrew competitions have you entered in (estimate)? 0
4. What was the highest score you've ever achieved at a competition and what was the style (links to recipes encouraged!)? NA
5. How many best of show awards have you won? NA
6. How many gold medals have you won? NA
7. How many total medals (1st - 3rd) have you won? NA
8. What is your favorite/best beer you brew (links to recipes encouraged!)? Chinook IPA & Lagunitas IPA Clone. I posted the Lagunitas clone recipe in another thread. If you do a search, I'm sure you will find it.

 

[eric19312]

1. When did you start brewing? did about 10 batches in 1989-90 then started up again in 2012.
2. Approximately how many batches and/or gallons have you brewed (guess)? Since 2012 140 batches, about 1,250 gallons
3. How many homebrew competitions have you entered in (estimate)? 4
4. What was the highest score you've ever achieved at a competition and what was the style (links to recipes encouraged!)? 41 - got this score for APA and also for an experimental beer
5. How many best of show awards have you won? 0
6. How many gold medals have you won? 1
7. How many total medals (1st - 3rd) have you won? 4
8. What is your favorite/best beer you brew (links to recipes encouraged!)? Single Hop House Pale Ale. 78% 2-row, 14% Marris Otter, 8% C20, OG 1.054, 55 IBU, US-05 fermented at 68F, FG usually right about 1.010. In an 11 gallon batch hop additions are 2 oz at 10 min and 4 oz in whirlpool (30 min at 180F). Use Rager formula to determine IBU contribution from 10 min and whirlpool addition and then add hop extract at 60 min to bring IBU total to 55. This recipe was originally based on a version of Russian River's hop-2-it that was published by AHA but over time adjusted for my taste and system

 

[schatzke]

1. When did you start brewing?
Sept '15
2. Approximately how many batches and/or gallons have you brewed (guess)?
50+ batches(5-6 gal each)
3. How many homebrew competitions have you entered in (estimate)?
2
4. What was the highest score you've ever achieved at a competition and what was the style (links to recipes encouraged!)?
35 sweet chocolate stout
5. How many best of show awards have you won?
0
6. How many gold medals have you won?
0
7. How many total medals (1st - 3rd) have you won?
0
8. What is your favorite/best beer you brew (links to recipes encouraged!)?
IPA with Citra, Mosaic, and Amarillo

 

[slym2none]

As I am relatively new to homebrewing, I thought it'd be a fun experience to get to know some of the fellow homebrewers on here with a short survey of sorts.

1. When did you start brewing?
2. Approximately how many batches and/or gallons have you brewed (guess)?
3. How many homebrew competitions have you entered in (estimate)?
4. What was the highest score you've ever achieved at a competition and what was the style (links to recipes encouraged!)?
5. How many best of show awards have you won?
6. How many gold medals have you won?
7. How many total medals (1st - 3rd) have you won?
8. What is your favorite/best beer you brew (links to recipes encouraged!)?

1)April 2015
2)17 batches, 42 gallons (approximately)
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7)-
8)Either the Centennial Blonde found on this site, or a clone of Devil Mountain Railroad's 5 Malt Ale.

 

[Special Hops]

1. When did you start brewing? Spring 2000
2. Approximately how many batches and/or gallons have you brewed (guess)? No idea. Lots
3. How many homebrew competitions have you entered in (estimate)? 0
4. What was the highest score you've ever achieved at a competition and what was the style (links to recipes encouraged!)? NA
5. How many best of show awards have you won? NA
6. How many gold medals have you won? NA
7. How many total medals (1st - 3rd) have you won? NA
8. What is your favorite/best beer you brew (links to recipes encouraged!)? Fools Gold IPA

 

[jonny24]

1. When did you start brewing? October 2015
2. Approximately how many batches and/or gallons have you brewed (guess)? 22 beer 1 cider 1 wine
3. How many homebrew competitions have you entered in (estimate)? 0
4. What was the highest score you've ever achieved at a competition and what was the style (links to recipes encouraged!)?
5. How many best of show awards have you won?
6. How many gold medals have you won?
7. How many total medals (1st - 3rd) have you won?
8. What is your favorite/best beer you brew (links to recipes encouraged!)? A ESB/Pale ale mix thing I made up. I Call it Extra Special Pale Ale or just Extra Special.

 

[MrPowers]

1. When did you start brewing? I started 3 years ago this month. May 2014. While I was in college.
2. Approximately how many batches and/or gallons have you brewed (guess)? I don't even have a good guess for this. 300 or 350 gallons maybe? Spread out over 3 years.
3. How many homebrew competitions have you entered in (estimate)? N/A
4. What was the highest score you've ever achieved at a competition and what was the style (links to recipes encouraged!)? N/A
5. How many best of show awards have you won? N/A
6. How many gold medals have you won? N/A
7. How many total medals (1st - 3rd) have you won? N/A
8. What is your favorite/best beer you brew (links to recipes encouraged!)? My Pumpkin Beer, Dad's Lager and Vienna Lager seem to be the best and the only consistently recurring recipes. The Vienna Lager being my favorite.

 

[bobeer]

Woohoo! I love a good survey!!

1. When did you start brewing? At the very end of 2011 but really 2012
2. Approximately how many batches and/or gallons have you brewed (guess)? 80-90
3. How many homebrew competitions have you entered in (estimate)? 2
4. What was the highest score you've ever achieved at a competition and what was the style (links to recipes encouraged!)? I think I got a 35 one time on Youper's APA
5. How many best of show awards have you won? 1 in my homebrew club for an IIPA
6. How many gold medals have you won? none
7. How many total medals (1st - 3rd) have you won? 1 for 2nd place overall
8. What is your favorite/best beer you brew (links to recipes encouraged!)? Probably my hop bomb red rye ale or my IryePA.

 

[Hopsimus]

1. When did you start brewing? May 2015
2. Approximately how many batches and/or gallons have you brewed (guess)? 20 batches, mostly 3 gallons each
3. How many homebrew competitions have you entered in (estimate)? 0
4. What was the highest score you've ever achieved at a competition and what was the style (links to recipes encouraged!)? NA
5. How many best of show awards have you won? NA
6. How many gold medals have you won? NA
7. How many total medals (1st - 3rd) have you won? NA
8. What is your favorite/best beer you brew (links to recipes encouraged!)? Recently did an Early Irish Porter from BYO mag - turned out amazing.

 

[TomRep]

1. When did you start brewing? 2004ish
2. Approximately how many batches and/or gallons have you brewed (guess)? 98 is in my book. May be a few more. 5-12 gallons a piece
3. How many homebrew competitions have you entered in (estimate)? 0
4. What was the highest score you've ever achieved at a competition and what was the style (links to recipes encouraged!)? 0
5. How many best of show awards have you won? 0
6. How many gold medals have you won?0
7. How many total medals (1st - 3rd) have you won?0
8. What is your favorite/best beer you brew (links to recipes encouraged!)? I had one I brewed quite awhile ago. I honestly forget the style but I'm thinking a pale ale and I completely forget the hops used, but I remember it was fabulous. Everyone who tried it liked it as well, even a stone cold Pabst fan. Only brewed it that one time. May have to dig through my records...

 

[Devon]

1. When did you start brewing?
I did a few extract batches around 2009-10, then took a few years off and jumped back into it with all grain around 2015.

2. Approximately how many batches and/or gallons have you brewed (guess)?
30.
3. How many homebrew competitions have you entered in (estimate)?
0

4. What was the highest score you've ever achieved at a competition and what was the style (links to recipes encouraged!)?
n/a
5. How many best of show awards have you won?
n/a

6. How many gold medals have you won?
n/a

7. How many total medals (1st - 3rd) have you won?
n/a

8. What is your favorite/best beer you brew (links to recipes encouraged!)?
Biermuncher's Centennial Blonde

 

[kingmatt]

1. When did you start brewing? April 2010
2. Approximately how many batches and/or gallons have you brewed (guess)? Apprx 100
3. How many homebrew competitions have you entered in (estimate)? approx 15
4. What was the highest score you've ever achieved at a competition and what was the style (links to recipes encouraged!)? 44 on a Doppelbock
5. How many best of show awards have you won? 1
6. How many gold medals have you won? 9
7. How many total medals (1st - 3rd) have you won? 17
8. What is your favorite/best beer you brew (links to recipes encouraged!)? my Rye IPA

 

[CKelly]

1. When did you start brewing? 2014
2. Approximately how many batches and/or gallons have you brewed (guess)? 150
3. How many homebrew competitions have you entered in (estimate)? 5
4. What was the highest score you've ever achieved at a competition and what was the style (links to recipes encouraged!)? 45 (American Stout)
5. How many best of show awards have you won? 1
6. How many gold medals have you won? 2
7. How many total medals (1st - 3rd) have you won? 3 - 2 Golds, Silver Medal at GABF Pro-Am 2016
8. What is your favorite/best beer you brew (links to recipes encouraged!)? English IPA

I hope I'm remembering correctly, but did you collaborate with Starr Hill? I'm pretty sure I had an English IPA at the ProAm booth and wanna say it was Starr Hill.

 

[cubalz]

1. When did you start brewing? 1989
2. Approximately how many batches and/or gallons have you brewed (guess)? Thousands
3. How many homebrew competitions have you entered in (estimate)? 34
4. What was the highest score you've ever achieved at a competition and what was the style (links to recipes encouraged!)? 2nd (India Pale Ale)

5. How many best of show awards have you won? 0
6. How many gold medals have you won? 0
7. How many total medals (1st - 3rd) have you won? 7
8. What is your favorite/best beer you brew (links to recipes encouraged) American Pale Ale