Lager than life competition

[Tess Tickle's Brewery]

Thank you @JockyBrewer

I guess I'm most interested in the formal ones, as entering them all might be a bit too much to take on

 

[JockyBrewer]

Thank you @JockyBrewer

I guess I'm most interested in the formal ones, as entering them all might be a bit too much to take on

‘Formal’ how?

All of those except GBBF and NAWB are judged by BJCP judges (or equivalent) where you should get two feedback sheets per beer entered.

 

[Tess Tickle's Brewery]

Ah ok. All those with feedback I should have said then. Sorry.

 

[Braumeister]

With Covid stopping everything the competition timetable has been quite up in the air up until very recently.

Here’s the ones to looks out for off the top of my head:

January - Scottish National
February - UK National
March - LAB Lager than Life
April - Reading Amateur Brewers - Sour and Session*
NAWB conference (entry in person only)
May - LAB Open
July - Anglian Craft Brewers competition
August - GBBF(?)
October - Brew Con(?)
Norwich Hoptober*
November - Heart of England

* may not be annual

All except GBBF and NAWB are BJCP competitions

Also Reading will be doing Spruce Rising in August

 

[Benfleet Brewery]

Well that’s odd. My entries are marked “received” but they were only collected by the postman about an hour ago

 

[JockyBrewer]

Well that’s odd. My entries are marked “received” but they were only collected by the postman about an hour ago

It's a quirk of the software that we have to mark entries as received in order to be able to arrange the entries into tables.

Entries will be unpacked on Friday and judged on Sunday.

 

[Deadhead]

Finally managed to find a box for my bottles. Got my husband to post them for me today, hopefully they arrive in one piece!

JockyBrewer, will you be live streaming the results?

 

[Alastair70]

Jack and my entries have arrived safely. Looking forward to going along to this. If anyone else is attending say Hi, I’m the middle aged man with the beard.

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Also Reading will be doing Spruce Rising in August

In addition to Sours & Sessions in April?

When will registration open?

 

[JockyBrewer]

JockyBrewer, will you be live streaming the results?

Yes. Probably on Facebook at Log into Facebook

 

[Braumeister]

In addition to Sours & Sessions in April?

When will registration open?

Yes they’re doing 2 national BJCP competitions this year, not sure when it opens yet but I’ll let you know once I find out.

 

[Deadhead]

Looks like my beer was delivered. From the picture, it doesn't look like they gave a **** about about the arrows and the 'This way up' all over the package. So helpful to my bottle conditioned beers! Hopefully all settles back down in a few days. Oh well , the perils of not living anywhere where I can drop off beer to actually be delivered in person to a competition!

 

[Benfleet Brewery]

Looks like my beer was delivered. From the picture, it doesn't look like they gave a **** about about the arrows and the 'This way up' all over the package. So helpful to my bottle conditioned beers! Hopefully all settles back down in a few days. Oh well , the perils of not living anywhere where I can drop off beer to actually be delivered in person to a competition!

It’s frustrating isn’t it. I doubt there will be many crystal clear bottle conditioned ones.

 

[nickjdavis]

Looks like my beer was delivered. From the picture, it doesn't look like they gave a **** about about the arrows and the 'This way up' all over the package. So helpful to my bottle conditioned beers! Hopefully all settles back down in a few days. Oh well , the perils of not living anywhere where I can drop off beer to actually be delivered in person to a competition!

where was the picture...i cant find anything on FB

 

[Deadhead]

Ahh, it was the picture from the Royal Mail delivery , showing it had been delivered.

 

[nickjdavis]

ahhh....hopefully the brewery will see the arrows and store it the right way up!!!!

 

[Benfleet Brewery]

You have more chance than me. I didn’t think of putting any “this way up” notes on mine

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

You have more chance than me. I didn’t think of putting any “this way up” notes on mine

Me neither! Just ordered some

 

[JockyBrewer]

Looks like my beer was delivered. From the picture, it doesn't look like they gave a **** about about the arrows and the 'This way up' all over the package. So helpful to my bottle conditioned beers! Hopefully all settles back down in a few days. Oh well , the perils of not living anywhere where I can drop off beer to actually be delivered in person to a competition!

The beers are being unpacked on Friday and will sit upright in a cold store until judging on Sunday, so they should be ok in the end.

Anyway, my bottles didn’t even survive the journey. Having to get new replacements up there.

 

[UKSkydiver]

I'm a bit OCD and I like a nicely packaged parcel. I made a nice handle out of packing tape so that whomever moves it had an easy way to lift and shift and keep it upright, as well as the suggested "Fragile - This way up" note.

That said, it's entirely possible someone also used it as a rugby ball in the sorting office.

In my heart of hearts, I know that when it left here it was crystal clear.