September 2024 - American Pale Ales

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Morning everyone!

It's time to announce the September competition, which is for all types of American Pale Ales.

I'll be accepting anything that falls under BJCP categories 18 (Pale American Ale), 19 (Amber and Brown American Beer) and 21 (IPA).

I'll also accept things like a Cream Ale from other categories, however American-style lagers won't be accepted.

I suspect this will be a fairly popular month anyway, but to try and add an extra layer of excitement I will be offering up a bottle of our Hook Norton wedding beer to the lucky winner:

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I will be judging on the first weekend of October (5th/6th) so there is plenty of time to send off your entries. If you'd like to enter, please PM to get my address.

Good luck everyone!
 
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American brown ale ready at last, will pm for address and hopefully get to you in the next couple of days
 
Plastic bottles in future pilgrim?

In my experience the beer doesn't keep as well in plastic bottles. I realise this may be a controversial statement to make. Somewhere between the 30 min boil and preparing a starter for dried yeast or not.

I also like the satisfying pssshhh you make when you open a beer with a bottle opener. Especially after you've spent 10 minutes looking for it.
 
Plastic bottles in future pilgrim?

To be fair to @pilgrimhudd the bottles were well packaged but couldn't quite account for a rogue postman. Probably the only thing that might have helped would be some fragile labels to hopefully make them think twice about lobbing things over a 6ft gate.

I always use glass myself and in several years of sending beers off for competitions, swaps, etc. I've never had a breakage.
 
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