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Announcing the first Beer Thief Homebrew Completion

After several long discussions on the Beer Thief homebrew forum, we are happy to announce the first in what will hopefully be a growing series of mini-hombrew competitions. More details, including the entry form and drop off location for competitors will be announced soon, but for now here are some of the key requirements for competitors to get brewing.

The competition will be judged using the BJCP style guidelines and competitors will receive completed score sheets with detailed feedback for each of their entries. For this first mini-competition we will be accepting only two styles of beer: 13A. Dry Stout and 14B. American IPA.

The deadline for entries will be mid-December (tentatively December 15th) and beer will need to be dropped off or mailed to a TBA location in St. John’s. Now is the right time to start brewing these beers!

You may enter up to two beers in each category. There will be a $5 entry fee per entry to allow for us to award a winner in each category (as well as to cover the costs of returning the BJCP score sheets by mail).

Two bottles are required for each entry. Bottles must be standard 284-355 ml glass beer bottles or 500 ml PET bottles without any identifying marks or labels. Any labeling on bottle caps must be blacked out. Any bottles with embossed lettering or brand will be disqualified.

Entries must have their entry form (to be released later this month) attached to each of the two bottles for the entry using a rubber band.

More technical things:
1. Beer must be brewed at home or at a commercial brew-on-premise establishment, beer prepared at brewpubs or on commercial pilot systems is not allowed.
2. Commercially prepared extract is allowed as an ingredient and, as we hope to encourage as many entries in this first competition as possible, “hacks” (additional hop/spice additions or other yeast strain choices) of homebrew kits will also be allowed.
3. There are no restrictions against “clone” recipes as brewer’s skill and equipment differ.
4. Each entry must be submitted as one of the two beer classes in this competition. Entries which do not conform to style guidelines will likely not score highly, however, the choice of which beer to enter is entirely at your discretion. For example, an English IPA could be entered in the American IPA category and, while it may score low for the category, the score sheet still may provide useful notes.

More information, including the firm deadline date, the location to deliver entries, and the entry form, will follow in the next few weeks.

We look forward to your entries! If you have any questions or concerns, please e-mail Chris at groulxsome [at] gmail.com or Mike at (your email).

GuingesRock wrote:Is this comp. just for Newfoundland, or does it include other Atlantic provinces?

Thanks