So tonight I arranges a bit of a tasting with a few friends, one of whom couldn't make it due to bronchitis (hopefully, he will be better soon).  The goal was to winnow down my 9 beers from last season's schedule into 5 which I can enter into our local competition (there's a 5-entry limit this year ( Read more... )

American Amber Ale: Bronze medal
(Historical) Brown Ale: Bronze medal
Russian Imperial Stout: Gold medal

So I got the judging sheets back from our local competition at the beginning of the month. I transcribed the comments and scores that I could read for all 13 of my entries.

If you really want they're here.

I'll probably add more information and comments later...

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(Perhaps someday I'll insert pictures. Otherwise, just use your imagination ( Read more... )

The final round of the club competition was Saturday, and I was able to judge. Yes, that means that none of my entries progressed to that round, but I'm glad that my ratings seemed spot-on based upon the rest of the opinions. They even waited until I could get there before they started the judging ( Read more... )

* Racked Lemon-Bay mead to secondary on Tuesday ( Read more... )