![]() It won't work for IPA or Pale Ale, but almost any other style can stand for sitting at 34F in the keg for a few months if it was brewed and packaged well. Enter a beer that doesn't benefit from age but brew it as late as possible, bottle as late as possible and keep the keg very cold. These kinds of beers don't get rebrewed between 1st and final rounds. They just as easily could have picked up a 3rd in both but just came down to a mini-BOS beauty contest. I've medaled in NHC first round with the same English Barleywine two years in row and both years they scored 40 in the final round with no medals. There are a few ways to end up winning at the final round.ġ. I don't think you can make any of those assumptions as the standard operating procedures. Both of these lagers I brewed in December to have them ready for shipping to the regional in time June rolls around, if I saved bottles of the original, neither would be in it's prime. The rebrew this weekend will use the malt I could not find before. The Czech Dark, which is 50/50 on advancing, was not my greatest, I could not get a key malt I like to use in the style so subbed something I never used before, and while it was good, it was not great. So the rebrew, more of the hops were pushed to late in boil/whirlpool. It's been working for me, as while I have not medaled at finals, I am on a 4 year (excluding the canceled year) streak of having at least 1 beer (twice 2 beers) make the final 12 beers for their category, mini BOS medal round at finals.įor this year for example, my NZ pils has been killing it in comps around the country but a few judges feel the hop aroma could use some enhancement. There are tons of NHC entrants who do the same. Pretty much every year I take feedback on the first round beers from scoresheets from other comps (only from licensed judges) and will tweak the recipe based on feedback. Of course it's not the same exact beer, but there is nothing in NHC rules that says it has to be, it just needs to be the same style. The Porters might not be in ideal shape come June 21, but the Dubbel should be. I have bottles of my English Porter, American Porter and Dubbel set aside. That is the only one I planned to rebrew if it advanced. I was not crazy about my IPA, but it seemed pretty decent around April 1 and has gotten decent scores in some other competitions. Of course, if I somehow managed to win a medal or two, that would likely change my mind! It was a bit of a spurge this year, but it is hard for me to picture myself spending $150 (not counting the cost of brewing) to have somebody drink my beers. There are also plenty of 500+ entry competitions where you can compete against top notch brewers for medals. I just feel like I also get that from $10 entry fee competitions. Hopefully this means I will get good quality feedback from well qualified judges. My IPA was a bit young when I shipped it, but I was hoping it would be near peak by judging. I am not sure how I would time a brew day to have a fresh beer for some of the locations with a 6 week delay. ![]() ![]() The shipping to judging window seemed reasonable there. Has it been like this in the past? I sent my beers to Philly (the closest to me). The wide range of judging dates seems to be an issue they should address. This was my first time entering NHC.well I entered once or twice over 20 years ago when my beers sucked and I was looking for some feedback. Also, I know they say they want to release all the results at once, but i know in past years I have seen early judging regions results posted before others have been done. But if that's the case, change the status to "still judging". But they have not changed the status from "entries checked in" to 'verifying results".so TELL US WHY.did they not have enough judges and are not finished yet? It's happened before where regions did not finish until weeks later. For example, I am in Philly that judged 3/31-4/1. My pet peeve is the lack of communication and updating status of first round sites on their website. For example, this year I sent a NZ Pils that's been killing it in other comps, a Czech Dark and a Best Bitter.I have already brewed the NZ Pils last week, will brew the Czech Dark next week.the Bitter, I don't expect to advance, so I just saved 3 bottles of the original batch if by some miracle it did. I pretty much plan every year on rebrewing small batches of the beers I sent, especially since I send mostly lagers, usually around April.
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