wait, they supply the wort? is it sweet or bitter wort?
Yeah, they sure did!
They supplied unhopped, minimally boiled 100% Pale Malt. You could do anything you wanted to it, but have to be able to reproduce it as the winner will go on tap on the Eccentric Cafe.
That's gotta be the coolest idea ever for a brewing contest.
... but you couldn't tell until you opened it that someone waited until the last day to bottle.
no joke! start off with a base wort & play from there! good luck on the comp, Smoke!:rockin:
So could you add more wort to it? Like you brew a stout then add it to this wort? Or you can only add hops yeast and other stuff like fruit?
Speaking of...
This is my first time bottling for a competition. I keg my beers or let them naturally carb in the bottle. Turn in day is 42 days from the start of the competition; which is plenty of time for brewing, fermenting, dry-hopping, and kegging.
I would like to push this out to about 33 days before I keg. Leave in the keg under pressure for a week (40 days) and bottle on that day.
How many days in advance should I bottle from pulling off my keg? I take it waiting until the last day is not advised, but is 2 days ahead of time OK?
Why would it matter how many days it's in the bottle if your bottling from a keg? Have you bottled from a keg before?
...as most of the bottles seemed undercarbed and highly cloudy, but you couldn't tell until you opened it that someone waited until the last day to bottle.
Yeah, last year I thought I was going to be smart and show up around 10:00 am. I wanted to be the one of the first in line so I wouldn't have to wait around too long and be able to get back home and brew. Many others had the same idea. Wonder what time the line started forming this year?Man, that line is a lot longer than the lines I saw a couple of years ago when I brewed some of their wort!
Congrats! That must have been you in the picture on Bell's Facebook page then!
Proud Mitten is now pouring at Bell's!
https://www.facebook.com/BellsEccentricCafe
It will likely be on tap for about a week. I hope some of you all will be able to try some (or had some at NHC).
Prost!
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