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Peter Scandlyn

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I have a brewing comp coming up this weekend for which I'm seeking some guidance on as to beer styles.
Comp is divided up into Ales, Stout, Lager and Specialties styles, although I am not entering Lager.
I can discern my Stout entries but not so defined on my my Ale and Specialties entries, so would like advice on those two categories.

I'm seeking guidance as to how I should define my Porters, a Belgian style spicy ale, a Munich Dunkel (chocolate) style, and a Belgian Quadrupel style.
I also have a fruity IPA and a couple of other IPAs, which I'm proposing would come under the Ale category?

So Ale category may be the IPAs and the Spicy, with Porters, Dunkel and Quadrupel going specialities. I don't want to be counted out for going wrong category.

Hope that makes sense - can anyone offer any guidance, please?
 
Best thing would be to ask the competition organisers as only they know what they want.

I'd think porter would go into stout, the Belgians as specialty and Munich dunkel is a lager style.
 
Thanks guys :thumba::thumba:

@Zephyr259 Good point. It's intended to be only semi-serious, I think some of the judges are there for the beers - if you get my drift.....

@MmmBeer Man, there was some serious reading in there. Handy to know.
 
Thanks guys :thumba::thumba:

@Zephyr259 Good point. It's intended to be only semi-serious, I think some of the judges are there for the beers - if you get my drift.....

@MmmBeer Man, there was some serious reading in there. Handy to know.
No worries, given a category of "ale" I figured it wasn't being very cutthroat. Yeah, the BJCP guidelines are, comprehensive...
 
Just back from the comp today.
Took all three major placings in the Ale section, with different styles, although the winner was the same ale that gave me 1st prize a year ago.
Based on a CWTCH recipe I picked up on the www, but totally crossed over to Gladfield malts, a Kiwi malster.
What really stunned me tho' was 1st= place in the Lager section with the Munich Dunkel, a Gladfield Malt recipe, found on their site.

Have to give a shout out to David Heath.
Thank you David for the effort you put in teaching folk like me how to get something decent out of the Grainfather. Detail works.

(on another note, I'm only whispering here, understand, I took three major prizes in the liquer section with liquers based on product derived from kale, run thru my GF with the shiny copper lid.....;) )
 

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