[COHO] next brew...

[Mike T]

Thanks, Richard! The beer that I won with (Dark Beer and Best of Show) was 
an ESB that I called Happy TrALE. I was stoked with the way it came out, 
although I am going to tweak it a bit next time. I entered that same beer in 
the Deschutes Brewery contest and it got hammered. Most of their comments 
said how it wasn't to style. (The name that I entered it under had ESB in 
it.) Who cares about style? I could see if it was a BJCP sanctioned 
competition, but it wasn't. Hey, these are the same "sensory analysts" that 
think Inversion is hoppy. Not that I'm bitter ;) For the LaPine competition, 
I won a Keg-a-Que (http://www.kegaque.com/). It's pretty funny. I'll bring 
it to our next meeting so we can grill some stuff.
Other people that won from our club are Lesli Cate with Third in the Regular 
Beer category with a Blonde and Dylan Sigstedt, who got Second in the 
Regular Beer category with his Lime Lager and First Place in the Wine 
category.
I see what you mean about rushing a beer for a competition. I've decided 
from now on to make beer as usual and if I happen to have something ready 
when a competition comes around, then I'll enter it. Brewing is no fun if 
you have to scramble around in a hurry.
Good luck to everyone that enters the Deschutes County Fair! It would be fun 
if everyone that does enter it to bring an extra bottle to our next meeting, 
on the 19th. We can have our own in house tasting just for fun. That's what 
it's all about anyway!
Cheers!
-Mike

>From: <RShaffer at AdvancedPower.com>
>Reply-To: Central Oregon Homebrewers <coho at lists.bendtel.net>
>To: <coho at lists.bendtel.net>
>Subject: Re: [COHO] next brew...
>Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 09:39:46 -0700
>
>   Hey Mike,
>	Nice job with the dark category in the Lapine 4th brew fest(1st
>place).  What type of beer was that?  I think you had "Tri-ale" as it's
>name.  Plus it was nice to see COHO representn'.  I didn't feel I had a
>beer ready for this competition,  I will however, be entering the
>Deschutes Co. fair beer contest with a Czech Pils that is just coming
>into condition now and should be ready by then, anyways good luck.  The
>Deschute Brewery contest was a disater with my APA (oatmeal) as I forced
>the timeline of the beer before it was ready(I won't do that again).  I
>think they said skunky and undrinkable on my test form(ouch!).  A month
>later from the draft and this beer is a great summertime quaffer, oh
>well, I had one of the breweries german heffewiezens awhile back that
>was pretty bad and maybe they haven't forgiven me for saying so.
>Richard.
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