competition

So you’ve decided to enter a homebrewing competition – either for fun or to get some really great feedback on your home brew.  What now?  How do you get your beer to the competition site?  How do I make sure everything arrives in one piece? And be sure it won’t get disqualified?  It can be [...]

In this series of articles we have been talking about different ways to improve your skills outside of the brewery. Looking for a good way to get some objective feedback on your latest brew?  Try entering it in a competition. Obviously taste is at best somewhat subjective but the Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) has [...]

The results of one of the local competitions were posted today and my Bavarian Hefeweizen took first place in the German Wheat and Rye beer category. I’m not quite sure what to make of this as I actually thought the weizen was the weaker of the beers I submitted so I was quite surprised at [...]