I am a homebrew God!!!

[GroosBrewz]

Not really.. Far from it actually..

However, at a friends Christmas party last night we did a blind beer tasting of 12 commercial styles of craft brews.. I slipped my homebrewed version of a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale Clone in there (Bottled from the keg with BMBF).. We used BJCP certified scorecards and at the end of the evening, my beer came in first place by a huge margin.. I was stoked!! It's one thing to give your friends your beer and they will always tell you it's good 'cause they don't want to hurt your feelings.. But to win in a blind taste test was a good feeling.. That's all... I was so excited that I just had to tell someone.....Happy Holidays everyone!

 

[Llysse]

That's awesome--congrats!

 

[Revvy]

Don't post your story in this thread (reverse psychology here ) according to SOME folks it's not possible for us lowly amateurs to have our homebrew let alone our clones stand up to commercial beers

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/taste-difference-home-brew-vs-commercial-152671/

Good job,

I've done the same thing with two of my clones and had similar results, which I mentioned in the above thread.

So go back me up.

 

[bad67z]

Nice work GB congrats, I hope I can get my brews to that level eventually. I was looking @ BM's SNPA recipe, but I don't have my AG set-up ready to go just yet. But it's good to hear more positive feed back for this brew.

 

[Cheeto]

I am going to have to twist your arm this spring, to get you up here for a brew day !

Congrats on your ego boosting tasting.

 

[zodeseeker]

Good job. I just made my first brew worthy on sharing.

Then after drinking it I am now tearing it the hell apart. Never satisfied have to make better beer.

 

[GroosBrewz]

Good job. I just made my first brew worthy on sharing.

Then after drinking it I am now tearing it the hell apart. Never satisfied have to make better beer.

+1 on that.. ALWAYS room for improvement....

 

[boo boo]

The only thing I have to say is, "welcome to our ranks ".

 

[Dwain]

These threads crack me up (I read the link Revvy). Just because you (me, him,or her) can't brew a beer better than commercial, that means no one can. I realized long ago that I was brewing a beer to my taste and trying to get others to like it. Kind of like letting a BMC drinker try one of your homebrews, just not as extreme. If my buddies and I brew beers that we enjoy more than the commercial ones, we've accomplished what we were after. Beer tasting/judging is still subjective, even when done by "professonals". Just out of curiosity, has anyone ever entered 2 beers from the same batch in 2 different competitions? Did they place the same?

 

[Revvy]

These threads crack me up (I read the link Revvy). Just because you (me, him,or her) can't brew a beer better than commercial, that means no one can. I realized long ago that I was brewing a beer to my taste and trying to get others to like it. Kind of like letting a BMC drinker try one of your homebrews, just not as extreme. If my buddies and I brew beers that we enjoy more than the commercial ones, we've accomplished what we were after. Beer tasting/judging is still subjective, even when done by "professonals". Just out of curiosity, has anyone ever entered 2 beers from the same batch in 2 different competitions? Did they place the same?

I had to unsubscribe from that thread, it was just getting way to stupidly contentious for me. Like I posted in there, I have done head to head testings of two of my beers, with beer geeks and homebrewers, and "civilians" and I posted my results in there...It doesn't mean I'm the greatest brewer in the world, or that I'm arrogant, or anythng really. It just means for whatever reason (and I think it's freshenss) often my beer has been liked better than the commercial versions, just like in here.

And at other times I have brewed total dogs of beers as well.

It's fun, and cool and I could have easly scored the other way. Taste above all else is subjective.

I annually enter the same beers in two contests, the michigan state fair (with between 800 and 900 beers judged) and the Michigan Rennascaince Fest Beer baron's brew brawl, both BJCP sponsored. And yeah they score numerically the same. High 30's low 40's. But in an 900 beer competition a 39 might be in the mid of the heap in terms of beers and barely get a nod, while in a smaller competition the same score could get me and has at least an honorable mention.