What Category for a Competition 2015 Style Guidelines

[Hopper5000]

Hey All,

I am planning on entering a competition pretty soon and am having some trouble picking a category to enter in. I have two barrel aged beers.

One is an imperial saison (Super Saison according to the new guideline) which was aged in a white wine barrel.

The other is a Curieux clone, so it was a Belgian Tripple aged in a bourbon barrel.

I am thinking that these should go into the wood aged category but I am not sure which would fit which one or if that's even appropriate.

I know there is the commercial clone beer category but the my version has way more barrel and booze flavor then the commercial example so I am not sure how well it would do in that category. However, I am not sure how well it might do in 33B because it's not a very common style to barrel age and the barrel flavor is very strong. It's got some hot alcohol flavor too (maybe I shouldn't enter it at all?)

I am also thinking maybe the Saison could go in the 33A Category but I am not really sure how well it fits in there. It does have a nice oak flavor and some mineraly flavor from the wine, but that's not really something that is described in that category.

Thanks for any help.

 

[porterpounder]

If secondary barrel character is present from what was in the barrel previously it should go into specialty wood-aged. The Curieux clone can go in either specialty wood-aged or clone beer. Clone beer is a weird category and how you describe the beer is important as many judges may not have had Curieux.

 

[Hopper5000]

Thanks Porter, anyone else have any thoughts?