These Ales of Wonder - 12th October 2024

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All brewers have fridges, right?

If you win at These Ales of Wonder, one of these lovely magnetic awards will help remind you of your awesomeness every time you walk by.
 

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I guess I'd like to see more women involved in UK homebrewing and in the BJCP.
Yeah, as a woman I agree with that sentiment! I think I may enjoy being a judge, but I live way up in the Highlands and even getting beers to try all the styles ,let alone to make it to competitions is an expensive pain.
 
Yeah, as a woman I agree with that sentiment! I think I may enjoy being a judge, but I live way up in the Highlands and even getting beers to try all the styles ,let alone to make it to competitions is an expensive pain.
I only recently realised that couriers charge so much extra for Highlands and Islands. Do Scottish Craft Brewers ever run the tasting exam?

If you ever fancy coming down to one of ours, my wife and I will happily host you - take a few days and explore. This year Vicky from Chile is staying with us.

The hardest callibration beers to source for this comp were the Irish Styles. Post brexit it is REALLY hard to buy from Eire. Fortunately, the lovely people at Carlow Brewing (who make the world class O'Hara beers) sorted us out.
 
One of the These Ales of Wonder Homebrew Comp tasks I am enjoying is sourcing callibration beers.

For some reason it isn't easy atm to buy goods directly from Eire, so I reached out to the Carlow Brewing Company they couldn't have been more helpful.

Here are 3 bottles of their world class Irish Extra Stout 'Leann Follain'. I wonder who will get the judge the Irish Beer Table? All the calibration beers are from Carlow: O'Hara's Red Ale, Stout and Extra Stout.
 

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Am I being a bit dence here? But how did 19 people enter and not supply beer???
I guess for most people it will be a combination of two things:

- the beer didn't turn out as they wanted, so they chose not to send it in
- a combination of life/family/health/work

When NAB first started on comps, @JockyBrewer kindly met with us to help us think through some of the things involved. (He's very experienced, tremendously helpful + coming to judge with us on Saturday). I remember he told us that 10% no-show was about average.

I suppose, to put it another way, why are there empty seats at a sold out Taylor Swift concert?
 
No more sleeps! These Ales of Wonder judging will get underway this evening.

Thank you to all entrants for your love of this craft.

Thank you to all judges travelling and giving their time and expertise.

Thank you to our sponsors Ampersand Brew Co, The Malt Miller, Crisp Maltings, WHC Yeast, INKBIRD.

You are all amazing.
 
Well done winners!
I failed to pay in time like a loser, so have no horse in the race. Next time I will pay attention!
 

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