Thursday, August 12, 2010
Beehive Brew-off entries and such.
Howdy,
So, many things have happened and many batches have been brewed since the last post. We made an American Strong Ale that is called "Surrogate Bastard" and a chipotle and chocolate stout that developed over a conversation over at Utahbeer.blogspot.com. And that is just naming two of several new batches.
Last year was the first annual "Beehive Brew-off", a homebrew competition that is mainly Utah based, but open to the entire country. There were over 300 entries last year and Quinn and I threw in 4 or 5 beers to see what the judges thought. The feedback was awesome and we even won two awards. Having had only 6 months of brewing experience under our belts at the time the feedback and awards were a huge motivator for us.
So, this last year we have really taken a lot of advice and brewed as much as we could. We easily brewed 4 or 5 batches a month at the peak this last year. It has been fun, expensive and refreshing. So, anyway, we decided to enter 10 beers this year. Some are pretty good, others are a bit weird and we want the opinions of the professionals. If the advice from the judges give us the same amount of motivation this year as it did last year then we'll have to buy the lot next door just to store the bottles.
We are all looking forward to hearing the results and seeing old friends. Even my sweetie helped out on a blueberry wine last week, brewing is contagious!
---Ricky H.
So, many things have happened and many batches have been brewed since the last post. We made an American Strong Ale that is called "Surrogate Bastard" and a chipotle and chocolate stout that developed over a conversation over at Utahbeer.blogspot.com. And that is just naming two of several new batches.
Last year was the first annual "Beehive Brew-off", a homebrew competition that is mainly Utah based, but open to the entire country. There were over 300 entries last year and Quinn and I threw in 4 or 5 beers to see what the judges thought. The feedback was awesome and we even won two awards. Having had only 6 months of brewing experience under our belts at the time the feedback and awards were a huge motivator for us.
So, this last year we have really taken a lot of advice and brewed as much as we could. We easily brewed 4 or 5 batches a month at the peak this last year. It has been fun, expensive and refreshing. So, anyway, we decided to enter 10 beers this year. Some are pretty good, others are a bit weird and we want the opinions of the professionals. If the advice from the judges give us the same amount of motivation this year as it did last year then we'll have to buy the lot next door just to store the bottles.
We are all looking forward to hearing the results and seeing old friends. Even my sweetie helped out on a blueberry wine last week, brewing is contagious!
---Ricky H.
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