Cowtown Yeast Wranglers 2014 Homebrew Roundup

[RubberToe]

Hey everyone, as mentioned earlier the Cowtown Yeast Wranglers have announced their 2014 competition.

http://www.yeastwranglers.ca/Competitio ... fault.aspx
http://yeastwranglers.brewcompetition.com

The entry deadline is February 14th. That doesn't give us a lot of time to get our acts together.

If you're thinking of competing, I think you should go for it. Their competition last year was my first BJCP competition and I made out really well. A few other Brewnosers got medals too.

I have 3 brews ready right now and If I'm lucky will have 1 or 2 more.

You can register on their brewcompetition page and IIRC they take Paypal.

Read over the bottling requirements. Each bottle will need to be unlabelled and have a bottle ID tag attached with an elastic. Preparing entries can be quite the chore if you have a bunch so make sure you give yourself ample time.

I'm torn between the more expensive 1-3 day shipping and trying the slower cheaper route. Remember, February is cold, especially out west. I have boxing up the beer pretty much down to a science now, Dollarama bubble wrap is great. If there's enough interest we could organise a group packaging thing.

Any questions and the organisers will probably respond quickly, they did for me last year. Or you can post them here, if someone doesn't know we can ask them.

Good luck, Brewnosers!

-Rob

[AllanMar]

Rob,

You recall what the rough cost was to ship when you entered last (and how many bottles)?

[sleepyjamie]

I'm gonna enter a few i think.

American Brown, Trappist, porter and perhaps a few others.

[RubberToe]

Rob,

You recall what the rough cost was to ship when you entered last (and how many bottles)?

I used FedEx Express Saver 3 day shipping several times over the year. Each time the box contained 5-9 entries (2 12oz bottles each) and it worked out to be roughly $10 per entry. IIRC regular ground shipping is about half the price but I don't know if I want my entries freezing this time of year. Maybe I have nothing to worry about?

[RubberToe]

I'm gonna enter a few i think.

American Brown, Trappist, porter and perhaps a few others.

Enter them all! At least you can save on shipping.

[gm-]

Hoping to submit 3 at least (American barleywine, American IPA, and an APA), maybe 4 if I can get my standard bitter ready in time.

[Keith]

Is this open to Partial Grain brewers?

[AllanMar]

Is this open to Partial Grain brewers?

http://yeastwranglers.brewcompetition.com/rules" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

5. All-grain brews, beer from kits, and extract methods are all welcome.

Looks like it!

[Tony L]

Is this open to Partial Grain brewers?

Yes, it is even open to extract brewers if they formulate the recipe themselves.

BTW, I found that the Western Comps to be the hardest to score well in but also found them to be the best for fair play and honest, knowledgeable feedback.
If you do good in them, you really are making good beer.

[sleepyjamie]

Question. TimG and I brewed 40 litres batches.

Wondering if this is acceptable to do

Enter his cocoa nibs vanilla porter into specialty category and enter mine as well. We both used different cocoa nibs for different durations

Enter same porter in porter category except no vanilla

Enter his dry hopped Belgian trippel/ipa/strong into specialty and my non dry hopped version

We also have an American brown we can enter and he could dry hop his. Mine is already kegged


Would this be kinda retarded if we did this ?


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[RubberToe]

Would this be kinda retarded if we did this ?

Sound like it, lol.

However the vanilla porter may be in a different category then the regular anyways.

The cocoa nibs thing and the dry hopped vs non really sound too close to me. However, if that's what you want to to you should probably email the organisers.

Actually the tripel one into different categories is fair game too. It's only when you want to enter the brew into the same subcategory that matters.

[sleepyjamie]

Yeah makes sense


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[RubberToe]

Guys, this is sneaking up on us. I don't even know if I'll have time to bottle before Monday but perhaps I'll just make the time. If I do it will be 3, maybe 4 entries tops.

[BrewRide]

Good luck everyone

[sleepyjamie]

Dropped of three entries.

American brown
Belgian tripel
Vanilla porter

What's nice is I can enjoy a pint afterwards at wild rose.

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I'll try to go to the awards gala and represent brewnosers.





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[RubberToe]

Good luck guys. I didn't enter this one, was waaay to busy. Hopefully I'll enter the Lethbridge one.

[dean2k]

Nice guys at this comp. I had registered a beer to send in and then life got in the way and decided not to ship one out. Organizer Neil emailed yesterday saying they noticed I had a beer registered and wondered if it was in transit. Told him next year perhaps, but those are good guys!

[Tony L]

And the winners are:

http://yeastwranglers.brewcompetition.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Keith]

Better luck next year for the Brewnosers. Did we have many entry's?

[RubberToe]

I'm not sure if we had any, I know I didn't enter. Only one placement in Best of Show. What score do you need to qualify for a medal in BOS?

[LeafMan66_67]

I'm not sure if we had any, I know I didn't enter. Only one placement in Best of Show. What score do you need to qualify for a medal in BOS?

I thought BOS was just that - THE single best beer entered.

[sleepyjamie]

They had three best in shows iirc but first was best of the best


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[RubberToe]

Right, makes sense!

Sent from the brew timer.

[sleepyjamie]

Brewnosers should really host a bjcp comp


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[Tony L]

I don't have plans for any entries in any comps this year unless of course the Brewnosers host one.