Big Spruce Home Brew Comp 2014 - 6D American Wheat or Rye

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Re: Big Spruce Home Brew Comp 2014 - 6D American Wheat or R

Post by GuingesRock » Sun Nov 30, 2014 9:18 am

Keith wrote:Good luck to everyone today, and thanks to the judges for getting together to do this. I know some of you could have entered but opt'd to judge. :rockin:
Yes good luck everyone. And thanks to the judges, Big Spruce, the organizers and helpers.

I hope someone get's their first competition success here, and get's bitten by the bug.

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Re: Big Spruce Home Brew Comp 2014 - 6D American Wheat or R

Post by jacinthebox » Sun Nov 30, 2014 12:01 pm

What time is the judging expected to begin?
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Re: Big Spruce Home Brew Comp 2014 - 6D American Wheat or R

Post by Jimmy » Sun Nov 30, 2014 12:07 pm

How many entries were there?

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Post by LiverDance » Sun Nov 30, 2014 1:16 pm

Judging starts at 1 I believe and should be wrapped up by 4. My understanding is that there were 12 entries. Good luck everyone, always nice to have a competition that is close to home.
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Post by Keith » Sun Nov 30, 2014 1:41 pm

Looks like the brewnosers have a good chance at taking it then considering I think we have 8 people that entered.
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Post by LiverDance » Sun Nov 30, 2014 2:02 pm

Keith wrote:Looks like the brewnosers have a good chance at taking it then considering I think we have 8 people that entered.
I'm really surprised we only have 8, seems like with all these competitions everyone's entering we should have had more entries. Busy time of year I guess. Next year hopefully the number go up so this competition continues. :cheers:
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Post by Keith » Sun Nov 30, 2014 2:09 pm

Yea I think it was the amount of time we had between announcing the comp and getting the beers in it was a short timeline. I wasn't sure if I was going to get an entry in, but scrambled to get one in and am happy with the beer so far.
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Post by jacinthebox » Sun Nov 30, 2014 2:09 pm

Good luck everyone. ..especially me lol
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Post by Keith » Sun Nov 30, 2014 2:12 pm

jacinthebox wrote:Good luck everyone. ..especially me lol
With a dozen entree's and the number of judges, we should hear back fairly soon I figure. I hope they judge my beer first, cause your beer will make mine taste like water lol.
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Post by jacinthebox » Sun Nov 30, 2014 2:18 pm

Urs is tasty. ..and I tried erics as well...another quality beer
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Re: Big Spruce Home Brew Comp 2014 - 6D American Wheat or R

Post by Keith » Sun Nov 30, 2014 2:19 pm

yea I liked your entry too, but yours is on the other end of the spectrum of mine. Mark has a solid entry too.
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Re: Big Spruce Home Brew Comp 2014 - 6D American Wheat or R

Post by GuingesRock » Sun Nov 30, 2014 2:49 pm

jacinthebox wrote:Good luck everyone. ..especially me lol
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I think it is just wheat beer is not a popular style. Not like IPA last year. I think 12 wheat might be more of an effort than last year's 16 IPAs
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Post by spears104 » Sun Nov 30, 2014 2:55 pm

The challenge for me this year was the tight timeline. Giving a couple of months notice is a better way to go.
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spears104 wrote:The challenge for me this year was the tight timeline. Giving a couple of months notice is a better way to go.
Same issue for me.
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Post by Keith » Sun Nov 30, 2014 4:14 pm

I'm eagerly awaiting the results haha.
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Post by jacinthebox » Sun Nov 30, 2014 4:30 pm

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Post by LiverDance » Sun Nov 30, 2014 4:45 pm

Congrats Eric G! Well done Keith and Jimmy as well. :cheers3:
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Post by LeafMan66_67 » Sun Nov 30, 2014 4:49 pm

Well done guys!
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Post by jacinthebox » Sun Nov 30, 2014 4:56 pm

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Post by Keith » Sun Nov 30, 2014 4:58 pm

Thanks gents!
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Post by amartin » Sun Nov 30, 2014 5:03 pm

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Post by Woody » Sun Nov 30, 2014 5:05 pm

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Post by jacinthebox » Sun Nov 30, 2014 5:07 pm

That sob used my water to brew lol
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Re: Big Spruce Home Brew Comp 2014 - 6D American Wheat or R

Post by Keith » Sun Nov 30, 2014 5:08 pm

Should make you an assistant
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Post by Keith » Sun Nov 30, 2014 5:08 pm

Congrats to Eric and Jimmy aswell
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