Moonhead, keen to know what day that is in any case, my entry landed at the Grain and Grape yesterday according to Australia post..
Hoping there's a few days of the bottles hopefully being upright to allow for the bottle conditioning yeast to settle out again.
No doubt my samples would have...
Huez,
That is very interesting to me as a bottle conditioner only.. Which one was the higher scoring one? I guess unless your technique is flawless, there is likely to be more O2 damage to the one filled from the keg?
Many thanks Peter and all involved for the competition, and also the results being made available so quickly, very much appreciated.
Some really valuable and solid comments to take on board to improve my beer in there, many thanks to the judges for those.
The CSIRO have isolated a gluten free barley, after years of breeding and isolating lower and lower gluten strains over and over, now the product is becoming very popular in Europe for making gluten free beer there. It van't be called that in Aus as it doesn't quite pass our more stringent 20ppm...
Many thanks Colbatt for all of your efforts here.
Judges comments on my three entered are very professional and most importantly insightful, very much appreciated, thanks to the judges too.
Thanks for that Les, much appreciated. I did also notice in the BJCP 2015 doc under Specialty IPA 21B the overview, before it goes into the various colours of specialty IPA:
'Entry Instructions: Entrant must specify a strength
(session, standard, double); if no strength is specified, standard...
Many thanks Barls and Cobalt.
It's definitely in the Imperial IPA category, with almost 500g of hops and almost 10kg of grain in 23 litres for this one. That's why I thought it really doesn't fit any of those categories,
Barls, I saw your post from 2015 on the ISB thread, about joining a...
Hi Colbatt,
I like the sound of this comp!
A quick question, I notice you have 21A American IPA and 21B Specialty IPA Brown and 21B Specialty IPA Black.
I happen to have a recently brewed IIPA (definitely too strong to fit the 21A category at nigh on 10%ABV) but probably not quite dark...
Seems the commercial Avery Maharaja is definitely on the Imperial or double IPA end of the scale, with OG ranging from 1088 to 1093 depending on the recipes. Recipes include between 700g and 1.1kg LDME, so if you left that out, you'd probably be back in IPA range according to the style...