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The brains trust behind the all grain Mash Paddle competition has been in clamorous consultation, trying to decide what challenge to set for 2007.
Following the success of this years Robust Porter competition, it was felt a distinctly contrasting, yet equally demanding, style was called for.
Early, Caledonian accented, pleas for a speciality crystal rye category were dispensed with. Rather harshly and peremptorily, in my opinion. Lighter bodied ales and lagers from Belgium, the Old Country and the Americas, were invited on to the dance floor, but ultimately failed to impress. Their dance cards will be filled in future years.
A consensus gradually emerged. For a pale and delicate flower of beer, rarely seen on Antipodean shores, but with a world wide reputation.
A beer with a certain degree of mystique and mystery.
A style requiring both the skills of ale production, with close attention to temperature control (in both mashing and fermentation), and the patience of a lager brewers cold conditioning techniques.
An ale that often has to fight a lonely corner in the lager categories of other competitions.
A beer of elegant simplicity, and few hiding places for brewing indiscretions, which still allows scope for the individual brewers interpretation.
A beer of moderate alcoholic strength.
Kolsch. The top fermented, cold conditioned, light and clear ale of Cologne, in the Rhineland of Germany.
The BJCP defines the style here: http://www.bjcp.org/styles04/Category6.html#style6C
This will form the template for the Mash Paddle guidelines. As with all ANAWBS guidelines, the final version for our competition will be posted on the ANAWBS website, and here, by the end of November.
Other web references abound for the style here are just a few to whet the appetite:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6lsch_(beer)
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art27982.asp
http://www.bodensatz.com/staticpages/index...020510221304290
The brewers of AHB have also shown considerable appreciation in previous threads. here, here, and here, just for starters.
We invite you all to add to these discussions further on this new Mash Paddle Kolsch thread.
Prost! May the all grain battle for the 2007 Kolsch mash paddle begin!
Following the success of this years Robust Porter competition, it was felt a distinctly contrasting, yet equally demanding, style was called for.
Early, Caledonian accented, pleas for a speciality crystal rye category were dispensed with. Rather harshly and peremptorily, in my opinion. Lighter bodied ales and lagers from Belgium, the Old Country and the Americas, were invited on to the dance floor, but ultimately failed to impress. Their dance cards will be filled in future years.
A consensus gradually emerged. For a pale and delicate flower of beer, rarely seen on Antipodean shores, but with a world wide reputation.
A beer with a certain degree of mystique and mystery.
A style requiring both the skills of ale production, with close attention to temperature control (in both mashing and fermentation), and the patience of a lager brewers cold conditioning techniques.
An ale that often has to fight a lonely corner in the lager categories of other competitions.
A beer of elegant simplicity, and few hiding places for brewing indiscretions, which still allows scope for the individual brewers interpretation.
A beer of moderate alcoholic strength.
Kolsch. The top fermented, cold conditioned, light and clear ale of Cologne, in the Rhineland of Germany.
The BJCP defines the style here: http://www.bjcp.org/styles04/Category6.html#style6C
This will form the template for the Mash Paddle guidelines. As with all ANAWBS guidelines, the final version for our competition will be posted on the ANAWBS website, and here, by the end of November.
Other web references abound for the style here are just a few to whet the appetite:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6lsch_(beer)
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art27982.asp
http://www.bodensatz.com/staticpages/index...020510221304290
The brewers of AHB have also shown considerable appreciation in previous threads. here, here, and here, just for starters.
We invite you all to add to these discussions further on this new Mash Paddle Kolsch thread.
Prost! May the all grain battle for the 2007 Kolsch mash paddle begin!
