Beerfest 2010 Results

[HoppingMad]

Fergus in marketing overdrive.... lol, come join the westgate brewers :icon_chickcheers: , it's unofficial & you heard it here first; we're Melbournes highest scoring per capita club, if that's a real award. we also have no ego issues. The pressure is on you Ferg to pull your weight & start filling up the trophy cabinet.

Has Lindon pulled the heineken keg out of his ass yet? :blink:

Was great to meet the Westies (as well as some others) and see Father Jack scoop the top prize (despite my in-built bias to Melbourne Brewers )
Well done to all involved, and well done to Father Jack not only for the big win, but also for one of the best soccer kicks of a Heineken Keg I've ever seen.

I believe Linton had trouble sitting down after copping such a pounding to the buttocks from the airborne keg, but being handed 2nd prize in the Belgian category later in the night after a re-count softened the blow somewhat. :lol:

Personally I'm chuffed with my result - not a huge place getter by any means but to come in the top third in the Belgians in only my third comp was very encouraging.

Cheers guys!

Hopper.

 

[geoffd]

Was great to meet the Westies (as well as some others) and see Father Jack scoop the top prize (despite my in-built bias to Melbourne Brewers )
Well done to all involved, and well done to Father Jack not only for the big win, but also for one of the best soccer kicks of a Heineken Keg I've ever seen.

I believe Linton had trouble sitting down after copping such a pounding to the buttocks from the airborne keg, but being handed 2nd prize in the Belgian category later in the night after a re-count softened the blow somewhat. :lol:

Personally I'm chuffed with my result - not a huge place getter by any means but to come in the top third in the Belgians in only my third comp was very encouraging.

Cheers guys!

Hopper.

Ha Ha Hopping Mad, I've no Idea who half of you are behind the nicknames, I think Linton's suffering from inverted genetalia, a gallon or so of raspberry lambic should numb the pain, or at least make his tongue hurt more than his nether regions. :wacko:

I always think the champ beer award is a bit of luck, some panels have higher/lower soring judges, I've been 2 points shy of it 2 or 3 times now, so great to win at last. Champ Brewer is the one to win, & i'm nowhere near that, on production alone never mind quality. I need to go squat in Robin's garage/brewery.

 

[Fourstar]

I need to go squat in Robin's garage/brewery.

Even if you squat in his brewery or his fermenters for that matter he will still come up tops with his beers! :lol:

Congrats to all who placed. I cant wait to see the results and what was so lackluster with some of my beers as most that got low scores i expected to be winners. Lets hope its not bottle degredation.

 

[taj]

Congrats to all the winners and the winner of the True South prize, make sure you drop me a line before you head this way, and we'll have a beer :icon_cheers:

 

[murrayr]

why can't i open the file!? every time i try it says something about the file is damaged.
really on edge waiting to see how i went!

 

[murrayr]

can someone please let me know how i finished up?
getting quite fidgety over here

 

[geoffd]

You probably need to update your adobe acrobat version, what category are you looking for?

 

[murrayr]

that could very well be it.
maple PMed me and word is i won with my best bitter!
absolutely stoked to get my first top 3, let alone a win! i guess i'll go upgrade my adobe now.
cheers

 

[geoffd]

that could very well be it.
maple PMed me and word is i won with my best bitter!
absolutely stoked to get my first top 3, let alone a win! i guess i'll go upgrade my adobe now.
cheers

Well done, I was busy tring to figure out how to cut & paste out of acrobat. Looks like you had a pretty tough scoring panel, I dont remember ever seeing all entries scoring below 100 before, hard to imagine the standard could have been that low. a softer scoring panel might have put you in contention with Andy for Best Novice Brewer.

Congrats Murray, a best bitter in more than one way.

 

[murrayr]

thanks for that. i'll enter the same brew in the british ale comp and see what happens.
i'm gonna go have a celebration bevvy now.
cheers

 

[murrayr]

just wondering. do i need to see someone about getting that trophy and prize?
i assume i missed the presentation whenever that was

 

[geoffd]

I'm sure Andy & Co. will have it for you at your next brewclub meeting. You better have an acceptance speech written :icon_cheers:

thanks for that. i'll enter the same brew in the british ale comp and see what happens.
i'm gonna go have a celebration bevvy now.
cheers

 

[Wolfy]

Looks like you had a pretty tough scoring panel, I dont remember ever seeing all entries scoring below 100 before, hard to imagine the standard could have been that low.

Actually when you consider the number of entries, what was submitted, the style guidelines and the judges - it was not hard understand how things worked out that way.

Thanks to the organizes and those who participated and congrats to the winners.
While the leave-pass I got from SWMBO didn't allow me to stay as long as would have been nice, it was a fun and educational experience none the less.

 

[hewy]

Very happy with how my alt did! :icon_cheers:

My first ever win and I'm stoked!!

Looking forward to seeing the scoring sheets...

Thanks to the Melb brewers for organising the comp :icon_chickcheers:

Cheers
Hewy

 

[dpadden]

Very happy with how my alt did! :icon_cheers:

My first ever win and I'm stoked!!

Looking forward to seeing the scoring sheets...

Thanks to the Melb brewers for organising the comp :icon_chickcheers:

Cheers
Hewy

Awesome result Hewy, and just reward for a great beer. I was lucky enough to have two bottles over xmas :icon_drool2:

 

[hazard]

Well I'll be curious to see the scoring sheets for this comp.... I've been trying to do a good TTL clone for a while, I finally got it right and have got one that I think is quite close - it's my best beer ever, and all my mates love it. One of them owns a winery and is talking about building a micro-brewing so he can make this beer. So I put it into the Pale Ale category - and got a grand score of 57 out of 150. Crikey!! What went wrong? Maybe I don't actually know how to brew!

So i continued scrolling down the results. I made a wit beer last year, it was a bit of a disaster, got stuck, I had to pour in lots of boiling water and lots of stirring to get it running, after the boil everything went into the fermenter hot break, cold break, hop trub...finished up with 26 litres in the fermenter instead of 23L yadda yadda yadda ... got down to the wit beer category and blow me down I've got second place :huh: , only a lousy half point from first.

I've now decided that these comps are a lucky dip, this makes no sense at all.

 

[Pumpy]

Great work guys

Pumpy

 

[Fourstar]

I've now decided that these comps are a lucky dip, this makes no sense at all.

its either completly out of style. Yes, a TTL should probably be entered as a English Pale ale as per AABC guidelines like you chose (i learnt the hard way this comp ). Although in beerfest you have to compete with the APA's which usually makes anything else difficult to clinch a place. Alternativly you ended up with an infected bottle. (looking at your score i'd say thats the issue with an overall score per judge of 19.

When im juding, unless its a stout in a pale ale category and entered as such or there are no brewing faults (e.g. infection, acetaldehyde) you are usually looking at borderline to mid 30's depending on overall impression or style accuracy. Atleast thats the way my scores usually pan out. A well crafted beer upon presentiaton with close to style accuracy deserves at least a 30 in my books. If there are faults you usually lose 3-5 points per fault.

 

[haysie]

Well I'll be curious to see the scoring sheets for this comp.... I've been trying to do a good TTL clone for a while, I finally got it right and have got one that I think is quite close - it's my best beer ever, and all my mates love it. One of them owns a winery and is talking about building a micro-brewing so he can make this beer. So I put it into the Pale Ale category - and got a grand score of 57 out of 150. Crikey!! What went wrong? Maybe I don't actually know how to brew!

So i continued scrolling down the results. I made a wit beer last year, it was a bit of a disaster, got stuck, I had to pour in lots of boiling water and lots of stirring to get it running, after the boil everything went into the fermenter hot break, cold break, hop trub...finished up with 26 litres in the fermenter instead of 23L yadda yadda yadda ... got down to the wit beer category and blow me down I've got second place :huh: , only a lousy half point from first.

I've now decided that these comps are a lucky dip, this makes no sense at all.

Welcome to homebrewing competition. Congratulations on the 2nd place.

 

[haysie]

Andy, Brendo, any word when the mail out of judging sheets is happening?
Cheers