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Official details will be posted in the next couple of days, but myself and the Saint John Ale House will be hosting the first annual Hammond River Brewing homebrew competition soon. What I can say right now is that it will be a BJCP certified event, entry deadline is January 16th, it will be open to all NB homebrewers, and the style will be category 21b (Christmas/Winter Specialty Spiced Beer)

shane. NS isn't spelled Nb lol

Keith wrote:shane. NS isn't spelled Nb lol

I'm in! Might brew up a batch on Sunday

Maybe my son at mount A will have to enter...lol

It would be nice to see a Brewnoser win it!

Keith wrote:shane. NS isn't spelled Nb lol

NL isn't spelled NB

This is going to be an excellent event Shane!

Shipping is what typically holds me back from entering competitions. However.... I could justify a little drive from Sackville down to Saint John with wife for a day trip.

dean2k wrote:Shipping is what typically holds me back from entering competitions. However.... I could justify a little drive from Sackville down to Saint John with wife for a day trip.

You could always give your entries to Darren @ Ducky's as well since do regular drop offs of full and empty kegs.

canuck wrote:

dean2k wrote:Shipping is what typically holds me back from entering competitions. However.... I could justify a little drive from Sackville down to Saint John with wife for a day trip.

You could always give your entries to Darren @ Ducky's as well since do regular drop offs of full and empty kegs.

Always an option. Or I could be a keg mule for a day too. tbd.

Official details now posted.

http://hrbrewing.ca/competition/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Do we have any entries in this?

amartin wrote:Do we have any entries in this?

Didn't hear much chatter - hope the
NB Brewnosers put together a good showing.

I brewed a strong one for the comp and scorched the damn batch.. hard to dump a 9.5% beer down the drain

Sorry to hear Mark, that's always heartbreaking. What happened, was it sugar or extract syrup, or was it the grain itself?

amartin wrote:Sorry to hear Mark, that's always heartbreaking. What happened, was it sugar or extract syrup, or was it the grain itself?

Well this is an ongoing problem i have been having on both my 100L and 20L biab system.. i think the root of the problem is that without sparging you end up with a lot of matter in your wort that must increase it's potential for scorching. When making high gravity beers with a long boil (90 mins) it increases the risk for scorching. I have never had a batch under 8% scorch but three batches now at 9% have scorched on a 5500W ULWD and a 1500W ULWD element.

The third batch to scorch was just before i came back to NL at the start of January and i only ran the element at 80% power.

1st place went to a collaborative brew from Mike Hebert and Jason Dobbelsteyn (both are brewnosers)
2nd place went to Marc Melanson (Brewnoser)
3rd place went to Liam Walsh

Congrats gents!!

Excellent job! Congrats!

Great show gents. Congrats!

Great Job and congrats to all! You too Shane.

Can't wait to brew! Hope it's a hit

You'll need to get it sent to stillwells for us NS peeps to try

Brewing this Friday and hopefully Shane will send some your way

Congrats!