Scottish Craft Brewers Competition 29th January 2012

[arkadiuszmakarenko]

Rules, Registration and Classes

Venue
Sunday 29th January 2012
Elgin House
6 Easter Road
Edinburgh

Judging will begin at 11am

Rules
All beers to have been made by the competitor
Any style 500ml or pint glass or pet bottles.
Any colour crown cap.
Minimum of 3 bottles per entry.
Competitors may enter more than one entry in every class
Beer can be delivered to Edina Homebrew on the week running up to the event
Beers brought along on the day must be presented before 10:30am

Registration Process
All beer must be registered prior to the event using the online registration process

http://competition.scottishcraftbrewers.org

Entry will be free for SCB members.
Non members will be charged £4 to enter beer.
Any non member who joins the SCB on the day will have entry fee waived.

Please Note
Judges feedback will be provided for each entry
Beers will be offered for sampling to other competitors and visitors after judging
Care will be taken of all exhibits but the organisers cannot be held responsible for any loss or breakage.
All bottles not claimed at the end of the show will be disposed of.
Judges may enter any class but cannot award themselves a placing.
All judges’ rulings and placings will be final.

Lunch
Lunch will be provided at 12:30pm.
There will be a charge for lunch.

Beer Categories
We will be adopting the BJCP guideline for the January Competition. We have restricted this to three categories for this year to allow us to gauge the support for the competition.

Category 1 – Special/Best/Premium Bitter
BJCP Category 8B http://www.bjcp.org/2008styles/style08.php#1b
Category 2 – Scottish Export 80/-
BJCP Category 9Chttp://www.bjcp.org/2008styles/style09.php#1c
Category 3 – India Pale Ale
This include two flights but will be judges as a single category.
14A English Pale Ale http://www.bjcp.org/2008styles/style14.php#1a
14B American Pale Ale http://www.bjcp.org/2008styles/style14.php#1b


SCB Meeting
Between 11am and lunch there will be a normal SCB Meeting – details will come out closer to the time.

If you have any questions send me email on [email protected]

 

[Dunfie]

I'm looking forward to this one. The January meeting is usually the best attended SCB event so to have a competition this year will be great. :thumb:

 

[calumscott]

All bottles not claimed at the end of the show will be disposed of.

Yeah, I bet they will!!! :drink: :whistle:

 

[Dunfie]

All bottles not claimed at the end of the show will be disposed of.

Yeah, I bet they will!!! :drink: :whistle:

Thats exactly the idea - one for judging and two for tasting after the competition. We all get a chance to taste and discuss the winning beers.

 

[calumscott]

I really like how you're justifying that, Dunfie!

And quite bloomin' right too! It's kind of like permissible minesweeping...

 

[Dunfie]

Your not far wrong. At The Spring Thing it was carnage for a good couple of hours after we opened the doors :lol:

Hopefully we can get a few entries in each category to make it all worthwhile.



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[Dunfie]

Just a reminder to anyone who is at a loose end on Sunday and wants to come along to the meeting.

As well as the competition we are getting a presentation from BigYin on how he goes about making those shiny double coiled immersion chillers.

 

[Farmbrew]

D

As you know I wont be able to make it - the other half has booked the day for her stuff :|

I dropped my 80/- off at Edina this morning and the bottom of the bottle carrier failed and the bottles crashed to the pavement :shock:

Luckily no breakages That would have been a trip into the big smoke (of Edinburgh) for nothing if I'd lost some competition beer - I probably would have had a basil fawlty moment in front of the shop :!:

Have a good day tomorrow.

FB

 

[abeyptfc]

hope u have a gd one folks! are u tasting calum?

 

[Dunfie]

hope u have a gd one folks! are u tasting calum?

I will be tasting after the competition but I'm not judging this year.

 

[Dunfie]

Results from this afternoons SCB Competition.

We had 26 entries across the three classes.

Best of Show
Steve Innocente I2 Pale Ale 14B India Pale Ale (IPA): American IPA

Best Bitter
1st Stuart Mcluckie
2nd Calum Craigie

80/-
1st Stuart Wilson
2nd Douglas Williams
3rd Jonathan Stanley

IPA
1st Steve Innocente
2nd Ben Hislop
3rd Steve Syson

 

[Farmbrew]

D

Hope you had a good day - congrats on 2nd...

Was Stuart McL there?

 

[Dunfie]

It was a really good day. We need to organise more of the same.

Stuart turned up - I think he was pretty chuffed with his win in the bitter category.

 

[abeyptfc]

well done, hope you had a good day! did you have a few pints at the end?

 

[Dunfie]

We got to taste a number of beers at the end of the day. The overall quality of the beers entered was very high so we had a good time.

 

[arkadiuszmakarenko]

It was great fun to organize this competition.
Quality of beers was very high.

 

[mysterio]

Everyone worked hard to make sure it was a very smooth competition, well done Arek and Calum especially!

Steve Innocente's American IPA was outstanding, well deserved win and I hope he posts the recipe

 

[Dunfie]

Steve Innocente's American IPA was outstanding, well deserved win and I hope he posts the recipe

I will have a word and see if we can get it off of him. :

 

[arkadiuszmakarenko]

And this is the recipe.

pale malt (5kg)
caramunich (500g)
galaxy hops (my all-time fav)

two-step mash:
Protein rest: 30min at 50C
Saccarification: 90min at 66C
Mashout: 10min at 76C

Boil:
Top up to 23L and bring to boil:
25g galaxy @ 60min
25g @ 45min
25g @ 30min
25g @ 15min
25g@ 10min
25g@ 5min
25g@0min, 15min steep
yeast: Wyeast American Ale I
Primary: 6 days
Secondary: 10 days and dry-hopped with a further 25g galaxy
185g pale spray malt for batch prime bottling.