National Homebrew Competition

[MickDundee]

doesn't show off my brewing skill like some heavily hopped NEIPA or lip smacking sour' .

I think their reasons are the opposite to this. Lagers, pale ales, bitters etc have fewer places for faults to hide whereas with a stout, NEIPA or a sour, the dark malts, hops and sourness can mask a multitude of faults.

 

[Benfleet Brewery]

Where can I find the table info?

 

[AJA]

Where can I find the table info?

That was posted on their twitter and hasnt been updated since

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

I can only speak personally but having already won a gold award for my bitter I’m entering other beers to get them up to scratch. Having said that, I plan to develop another bitter to sit alongside my current best and will very likely be entering that at some point soon - probably at the same time as everyone else sends in a bitter!

 

[Braufather]

Mine is delivered. I hope there are no breakages. Had a taste last night and a couple of schoolboy errors on my first competition.

1) i had an amber i was saving the last few pints for in the keg for the comp and managed to get 6 bottles sending 2 to the comp. However dragging the keg to the bottling station it must have stirred up 3 months worth of settled out crap and as only 3 lites volume left, a clear beer has probably become 6 bottles of cloudy mess.

2) maybe dont change a tried and tested process for a comp entry. i used my new apollo instead of ss brewbucket so that i could do a closed cold crash (normally cold crash in keg) after two days of dry hopping. this is a regular brew of mine but had came out far more bitter than all previous versions (gonna post another thread on this)

3) timings. if you are going to enter a 7% beer, it might need more than 5 weeks to peak

All good fun and will be good to have something to build on going forward.

 

[Deadhead]

I think their reasons are the opposite to this. Lagers, pale ales, bitters etc have fewer places for faults to hide whereas with a stout, NEIPA or a sour, the dark malts, hops and sourness can mask a multitude of faults.

Ahh, of course. That makes more sense! (Though I think entering a NEIPA for a competition would be hard without a canning operation, just because of the oxidisation - though I'm sure folks manage it just fine!)

 

[MickDundee]

Ahh, of course. That makes more sense! (Though I think entering a NEIPA for a competition would be hard without a canning operation, just because of the oxidisation - though I'm sure folks manage it just fine!)

I scored 37 at Brewcon for mine, and that was using a counter pressure bottle filler.

(A but of an insider joke there, but seriously it did seem to travel ok)

 

[DocAnna]

24 hr parcel post dispatched at lunch today, really hoping it gets there on time. I came in from work after midnight last night and set to filling labelling and packaging - it was a wee bit late !

 

[MickDundee]

24 hr parcel post dispatched at lunch today, really hoping it gets there on time. I came in from work after midnight last night and set to filling labelling and packaging - it was a wee bit late !

I posted mine 1st class tracked at 1pm yesterday and it was delivered at 12:30 today so I think you should be ok.

 

[Deadhead]

Same. Mine went from the Scottish Highlands, 24 hour, dropped off at 1pm and delivered today at 12:30 (our beers must have come on the same delivery van today @MickDundee )

 

[Bogdweller]

Just out of interest how does posting beers to a competition work. I'm thinking they will be bottle conditioned? What state will it be in on arrival? How will the journey ,storage and sampling conditions affect the beer?

 

[Stu's Brews]

Just out of interest how does posting beers to a competition work. I'm thinking they will be bottle conditioned? What state will it be in on arrival? How will the journey ,storage and sampling conditions affect the beer?

Some will be bottle conditioned others will be bottled from keg using a counter pressure filler to minimize oxygen intake.

Obviously there are some risks you can't control in terms of how the beer is treated on route (handling, temperatures, etc.). That's largely the same for everyone though and provided they aren't abused completely then there should be no issues. Plenty of beer gets shipped to consumers without widespread complaints.

If sending bottle conditioned you would normally want to send earlier so there is time for sediment to settle back out after transport.

For beers bottled from keg, the opposite is generally true as you want it to be as fresh as possible in case any oxygen has got in.

 

[nickjdavis]

3) timings. if you are going to enter a 7% beer, it might need more than 5 weeks to peak

So its no use me packing up a couple of bottles of the Dopplebock that I've just finished bottling and finding myself a strong fast carrier pigeon that knows its way to South Wales then?

 

[Deadhead]

Latest numbers:
https://www.nationalhomebrewcompeti...9rjTzTd5XslYQ17DFAHOd7wNwktn6LhEh78iiY-1y1aNU
Think Bitters may get lumped into another table - only 6 have arrived thus far! Maybe with dark lagers, since there are only 7 there?

 

[DocAnna]

Well that's a bit of a relief, notification that my beers arrived. I'm not entirely convinced I entered one of them into the right category but hey it's genuinely in the spirit of fun I put them in anyway!

 

[nickjdavis]

Latest numbers:
https://www.nationalhomebrewcompeti...9rjTzTd5XslYQ17DFAHOd7wNwktn6LhEh78iiY-1y1aNU
Think Bitters may get lumped into another table - only 6 have arrived thus far! Maybe with dark lagers, since there are only 7 there?

I would doubt it...more likely to be lumped in with British and Irish Beers if they get combined with anything.

Probably will be left alone and depending on scores maybe only 1 or 2 places awarded (maybe none if the scores are not good enough).

 

[Deadhead]

I would doubt it...more likely to be lumped in with British and Irish Beers if they get combined with anything.

Probably will be left alone and depending on scores maybe only 1 or 2 places awarded (maybe none if the scores are not good enough).

Cool. Still learning how these things go!

 

[dreaddan]

Well that's a bit of a relief, notification that my beers arrived. I'm not entirely convinced I entered one of them into the right category but hey it's genuinely in the spirit of fun I put them in anyway!

Was that a postal confirmation or from nhc? You've got me worried now!

 

[DocAnna]

Was that a postal confirmation or from nhc? You've got me worried now!

If you login to your account on the national homebrew site https://www.nationalhomebrewcompetition.org.uk/ then it shows a tick against your beers if they have been received.

 

[MickDundee]

If you login to your account on the national homebrew site https://www.nationalhomebrewcompetition.org.uk/ then it shows a tick against your beers if they have been received.

Just to add that this doesn’t work on a lot of mobile browsers. I had to log in through my laptop to see it confirmed received.