Home Brew Competition - December 16

[jceg316]

I brewed my entry yesterday. It should be interesting. Wanting to get the wheat beer flavour I cultured up some yeast from a bottle of And Union Summer. By the time the yeast was at a pitchable amount, it had a funny smell to it which I'm hoping is from the wort and not the yeast :-?

 

[strange-steve]

I brewed my entry yesterday. It should be interesting. Wanting to get the wheat beer flavour I cultured up some yeast from a bottle of And Union Summer. By the time the yeast was at a pitchable amount, it had a funny smell to it which I'm hoping is from the wort and not the yeast :-?

I'm not familiar with that beer but are you sure they use their primary strain for bottle conditioning? It's not uncommon for wheat beers to have a different strain added for bottling.

 

[jceg316]

I'm not familiar with that beer but are you sure they use their primary strain for bottle conditioning? It's not uncommon for wheat beers to have a different strain added for bottling.

It definitely smelt of wheat beer yeast until the pitching stage. I think it's the wort its in going off.

 

[strange-steve]

It definitely smelt of wheat beer yeast until the pitching stage. I think it's the wort its in going off.

:thumb:
If you need the postal address send me a PM. In in the process of sorting out a date for the judging with a couple of mates who are also brewers.

 

[strange-steve]

First entry received today courtesy of @JFB :thumb:

Judging has been scheduled for Saturday 7th January. I've enlisted the help of a couple of other brewers, one of whom has been involved in judging BJCP competitions in the past, so hopefully we can give some constructive feedback.

 

[JFB]

First entry received today courtesy of @JFB :thumb:

Judging has been scheduled for Saturday 7th January. I've enlisted the help of a couple of other brewers, one of whom has been involved in judging BJCP competitions in the past, so hopefully we can give some constructive feedback.

I've had a couple of gushers with that batch only two out of the whole batch so you should be fine be maybe open near the sink:grin:

 

[jceg316]

my entry should be thundering along the motorway on its way to you.

 

[strange-steve]

Entries received this morning from @jceg316 and @Crystal_Ball :hat:

 

[strange-steve]

Received entry from @JFB this morning.
Judging is still on schedule for this Saturday, looking forward to trying these.

 

[MickDundee]

I accidentally drank my last bottle of American Wheat due to it having the same bottle cap as my steam beer, which is why I didn't send you mine!

How many did you receive?

 

[strange-steve]

A fairly small competition this month, I think there are 6 entries. Although that means we can take a bit more time on each entry and hopefully give some useful feedback.

 

[JFB]

A fairly small competition this month, I think there are 6 entries. Although that means we can take a bit more time on each entry and hopefully give some useful feedback.

Shame really, Perhaps a Christmas beer for December would of got more entries.
Still thanks for taking the time out to critic our beers:thumb:

 

[strange-steve]

Well, tasting is complete and scores are being tallied right now. Results to follow shortly...

 

[strange-steve]

And the results...

1st place - Raspberry Wheat by @JFB
2nd place - Bowl of Wheatos by @JCEG316
3rd place - My Brew Huell by @Crystal_ball

Well done everybody, I'll try to get the feedback sent tomorrow.

 

[Leon103]

And the results...

1st place - Raspberry Wheat by @JFB
2nd place - Bowl of Wheatos by @JCEG316
3rd place - American Wheat by JFB

Well done everybody, I'll try to get the feedback sent tomorrow.

Well done both. I did think that only one bottle can be counted though so you may need to amend 3rd place.

On another note, STeve send me you address for a bottle of Black IPA.

 

[strange-steve]

Well done both. I did think that only one bottle can be counted though so you may need to amend 3rd place.

On another note, STeve send me you address for a bottle of Black IPA.

You're quite right, post edited (and PM sent).

 

[Grizzly299]

Congratulation @JFB @jceg316 ! Will you be participating in the January competition?

 

[DoctorMick]

JFB is on fire, top 3 in each competition so far. :thumb:

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Congratulations @JFB, @jceg316, and @Crystal_Ball and thanks Steve.

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[jceg316]

Yay second place! My recipe: https://www.brewtoad.com/recipes/bowl-of-wheatos please note the efficiency is 79%, my actual efficiency on brewday was lower. Yeast was cultured up from a bottle of And Union Summer wheat beer, I'm not sure what strain they used.

@Grizzly299 yes it's almost finished fermenting, will hopefully be ready in a couple of weeks.