Brewnosers Homebrew Competition 2015

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Re: Brewnosers Homebrew Competition 2015

Post by Keith » Tue May 26, 2015 7:43 pm

Are we doing medals or certificates similar to the other large comps by chance?
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Re: Brewnosers Homebrew Competition 2015

Post by akr71 » Tue May 26, 2015 7:43 pm

RubberToe wrote:Regarding the score, large categories were divided between tables to be judged and scored. Each table chose a couple for a mini best of show where the head judges of said tables got together to decide 1st/2nd/3rd/etc. So since they were scored by different groups you could technically score higher than someone who beat you.
Fair enough. Like I said above, for a popular category like IPA, I would expect higher than 41 to take the prize.

On another note, if I didn't actually compete, can I get money back?
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Re: Brewnosers Homebrew Competition 2015

Post by CartoonCod » Tue May 26, 2015 7:45 pm

This has been quite a learning experience for the organizers/stewards/judges. Lets hope we can take all the good things from this year and all the ideas for improvment and make next years competition even better. To that end, we'd like your feedback on things to improve for next year. You can PM suggestions to me. Please include the point to improve and your recommendation for next year.

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Re: Brewnosers Homebrew Competition 2015

Post by CartoonCod » Tue May 26, 2015 7:46 pm

Keith wrote:Are we doing medals or certificates similar to the other large comps by chance?
Yes I believe there will be medals given out.

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Re: Brewnosers Homebrew Competition 2015

Post by CartoonCod » Tue May 26, 2015 7:48 pm

Keith wrote:When should we expect the scoresheets? I'm in no crazy rush but want to improve my IIPA to get in the 40's. 35.5 has a lot of room for improvement and want to nail it.
It might take a bit longer than I thought. There are alot of sheets to go though, but I'm working on it.

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Re: Brewnosers Homebrew Competition 2015

Post by Keith » Tue May 26, 2015 7:54 pm

Haha no worries. I have a large scanner at work I could use. Could do all the scans in record time and lump each brewers score sheets into 1 pdf.
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Re: Brewnosers Homebrew Competition 2015

Post by Keith » Tue May 26, 2015 7:55 pm

I think I did 15 sheets in 30 seconds once. Biggest thing is that they are grouped by brewer. I'd be free in a hour.
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Re: Brewnosers Homebrew Competition 2015

Post by Keith » Tue May 26, 2015 7:56 pm

1pdf per brewer that is.
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Re: Brewnosers Homebrew Competition 2015

Post by RubberToe » Tue May 26, 2015 7:56 pm

Over 70 brewers, 300 or so entries, matching judging IDs to brewers. Sending 70+ emails. a lot to deal with.

All this is making me think about a 100% online entry / scoring / feedback system.
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Re: Brewnosers Homebrew Competition 2015

Post by Keith » Tue May 26, 2015 8:00 pm

Yea I can only imagine. If they are sorted I could save you guys a ton of time. The copier/scanner at work is a beast.
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Re: Brewnosers Homebrew Competition 2015

Post by John G » Tue May 26, 2015 8:23 pm

I'd love to switch to using online judging scoresheets. My writing hand is still sore from the weekend - I haven't handwritten that much in over 20 years! I've started to use an online bjcp pdf scoresheet form when I taste beers at home and just save them to a folder on my HD.

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Re: Brewnosers Homebrew Competition 2015

Post by Woody » Wed May 27, 2015 12:10 am

Thanks to everyone involved for making this possible and congrats to the other winners. I love getting honest and direct feed back on my beer. I was pleasantly surprised with one of my entries. Looking forward to improving on each of them.

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Re: Brewnosers Homebrew Competition 2015

Post by gm- » Wed May 27, 2015 2:01 pm

Well done all, both organizers, judges and competitors. Was too busy to participate this year, but will hopefully have some sours ready for next year!

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Re: Brewnosers Homebrew Competition 2015

Post by dean2k » Wed May 27, 2015 3:14 pm

Be interesting to get an honest postmortem of the competition from the judges and stewards. What went right? What went wrong? Where did Andy's beers go? How might things work differently in a 2016 Brewnosers comp? etc.
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Re: Brewnosers Homebrew Competition 2015

Post by RubberToe » Wed May 27, 2015 3:25 pm

dean2k wrote:Be interesting to get an honest postmortem of the competition from the judges and stewards. What went right? What went wrong? Where did Andy's beers go? How might things work differently in a 2016 Brewnosers comp? etc.
This is definitely going to happen.
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Re: Brewnosers Homebrew Competition 2015

Post by LiverDance » Wed May 27, 2015 3:29 pm

Andy's beers must be with my Garrison entry :spilly: Great job everyone, hope to compete next year :cheers:
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Re: Brewnosers Homebrew Competition 2015

Post by GAM » Wed May 27, 2015 3:30 pm

RubberToe wrote:
dean2k wrote:Be interesting to get an honest postmortem of the competition from the judges and stewards. What went right? What went wrong? Where did Andy's beers go? How might things work differently in a 2016 Brewnosers comp? etc.
This is definitely going to happen.
My house on next Saturday.

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Re: Brewnosers Homebrew Competition 2015

Post by dean2k » Wed May 27, 2015 3:33 pm

I mean all that in the most positive way of course. It's only going to get bigger and better. :rockin:
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Re: Brewnosers Homebrew Competition 2015

Post by GAM » Wed May 27, 2015 5:30 pm

Yes. Process and venue are an interesting conversation. Glad to have all of then but a consistency would help, back stage.

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Re: Brewnosers Homebrew Competition 2015

Post by Jimmy » Wed May 27, 2015 5:33 pm

It would probably be good to involve people who were not involved in the organization/running of the competition as well. Feedback from competitors & sponsors could be very valuable information for next year.

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Re: Brewnosers Homebrew Competition 2015

Post by jacinthebox » Wed May 27, 2015 5:52 pm

I applaud the peeps involved with this massively successful event...it was huge ...especially for a first event
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Re: Brewnosers Homebrew Competition 2015

Post by CartoonCod » Wed May 27, 2015 10:11 pm

GAM wrote:
RubberToe wrote:
dean2k wrote:Be interesting to get an honest postmortem of the competition from the judges and stewards. What went right? What went wrong? Where did Andy's beers go? How might things work differently in a 2016 Brewnosers comp? etc.
This is definitely going to happen.
My house on next Saturday.

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Thanks for volunteering Sandy. Andrew Newton and I can't make it, so could you take some good notes. We've got a document of problems/recommendations to help make sure next year works even better, so having good notes from the postmortem would be quite valuable.

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*Edit: I meant to say once the notes are taken, send them to me and I'll include them into our document of problems/recommendations.
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Re: Brewnosers Homebrew Competition 2015

Post by RubberToe » Thu May 28, 2015 6:11 am

IMHO too soon.
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Re: Brewnosers Homebrew Competition 2015

Post by GAM » Thu May 28, 2015 10:19 am

Just remembered that is Keith's party.

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Re: Brewnosers Homebrew Competition 2015

Post by Tony L » Fri May 29, 2015 6:13 am

Great job on doing the First national Brewnosers comp guys.

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