Need help- category selection

[Reubens888]

I'm looking to enter 2 beers into a competition, but they could go many different ways.

Cocoa Brown: basically a sweet brown steeped in secondary with cocoa nibs. Prominent chocolate nose. Not bitter tasting at all. I was thinking "brown porter" but could it also be a "specialty beer"?

Smoked chipotle jalapeño porter. Sweet brown porter as base, not super spicy. Smoked Malts, steeped dried chipotles and fresh jalepeno in secondary. Does this really have 4 potential categories? Other smoked beer, specialty beer, brown porter, or spice herb vegetable beer?

Any help you can offer is greatly appreciated!

 

[CadillacAndy]

I would put both of these in the Spice, Herb or Vegetable category (21A) http://www.bjcp.org/2008styles/style21.php

 

[dcp27]

21A for the cocoa brown, but 23 for the smoked chipotle porter since its a combo - Combinations of other style categories (e.g., India Brown Ale, fruit-and-spice beers, smoked spiced beers)

 

[CadillacAndy]

21A for the cocoa brown, but 23 for the smoked chipotle porter since its a combo - Combinations of other style categories (e.g., India Brown Ale, fruit-and-spice beers, smoked spiced beers)

Good call. I was thinking that the pepper's were smoked, so it was still just a pepper beer and smoking was a way of preparing it for use. Picking the right category for some of these beers can get tricky.