September Competition - American Pale Ales

[Hazelwood Brewery]

3 beers from @Hazelwood Brewery so 15 beers in the competition. Wish me luck.

Good luck!!

 

[Pennine]

You alive leon? Have any taste buds left?

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

You alive leon? Have any taste buds left?

You not going to hear from @Leon103 for a while, he’ll not be waking up until Tuesday!

 

[Leon103]

You not going to hear from @Leon103 for a while, he’ll not be waking up until Tuesday!

Don't worry about me.

 

[Leon103]

Cracking standard so far

 

[Benfleet Brewery]

I wonder if @Leon103 is still awake

 

[Leon103]

I wonder if @Leon103 is still awake

Feel good today. Finished the beers well before 12pm and shared a couple of imps with a pal

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Feel good today. Finished the beers well before 12pm and shared a couple of imps with a pal

Legend!

 

[Leon103]

Sorry for the delays, I am busy with the kids at the moment. Will post later

 

[Leon103]

So the results are in.....

Firstly thank you that sent beers into the comp. 15 excellent beers. In the end 4 of us judged the beers with the non brewers really complimenting the quality.

Judging is never easy especially with so many using similar ingredients and brewing to an excellent quality.

I aim to get all feedback out to everyone by tomorrow evening. Feedback will be collective comments from all 4 judges. There was plenty of debate on what everyone thought was the best beer.

So onto the winners.

In 3rd place- @Turexy with simcoe juice.
2nd place- @Pennine with summer breeze.
And finally the winner......









@strange-steve with citron belge ipa.


I don't know about you lot but I would love to see the recipes of all three.

Unlucky to those that just fell short of the podium.

 

[uDicko]

Well done all! Thanks @Leon103 for judging. It's a difficult job, someone has to do it

 

[pilgrimhudd]

Congrats everyone!

 

[samale]

Well done everyone

 

[Benfleet Brewery]

Yes, well done everyone and thanks @Leon103 for judging. :small

 

[user 18729]

Congrats! Steve sneaking in there again!

 

[Hazelwood Brewery]

Well done guys!

 

[Turexy]

Congrats to everyone and very proud to get 3rd place woop woop. Can't wait to get the feedback . Thanks @Leon103 for organising the comp.

 

[dave_77]

Well done to everyone and thanks for judging @Leon103 . Good work @strange-steve .

 

[Pennine]

Nice job @Turexy and @strange-steve !

And also credit where it's due nice recipe @Hazelwood Brewery

Here's the recipe plus 25g of galaxy dry hops too.

https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/pennines-brewdays.86123/post-946272
And thanks @Leon103 for judging

 

[strange-steve]

Well done @Turexy and @Pennine. This was a big surprise to be honest, it was a bit of a wildcard entry and I wasn't sure how well it would be recieved, but thanks to @Leon103 for judging. Recipe is below:

Citron Belge

Batch size: 21 L
OG: 1.060
FG: 1.002 (yep really)
ABV: 7.6%
Colour: 3 SRM
Bitterness: 26 IBU

Fermentables
4.0 kg Pilsner Malt
0.5 kg Wheat Malt
0.5 kg White Sugar

Hops
10 g Zeus at 60 mins
25 g Cascade at 15 mins
25 g Cascade Whirlpool
50 g Citra Dry Hop

Water Profile
90 ppm Calcium
110 ppm Sulphate
110 ppm Chloride
15 ppm Alkalinity

Notes
Zest of 2 lemons added along with dry hops
Fermented with Belle Saison
Pitch at 20°c and ramp up to 27°c over 1 week
Mash schdule:
55°c for 10 mins
62°c for 30 mins
71°c for 30 mins
77°c for 10 mins

Yes, it could be argued that this is a saison and not an American IPA, but with the US hops and the lemon flavours it drinks like an IPA with a Belgian twist. Kind of reminds me of Cloudwater Belgian Citra IPA (perhaps unsurprisingly).

Oh and I have one of these each to be sent out to @Pennine, @samale, and @UKSkydiver as promised.