Pacific Brewers Cup – Entry Deadline Friday Aug 22nd
OK, folks, we are coming down to short strokes here. The
entry deadline for the 2014 Pacific Brewers Cup is this Friday, August 22nd. As I scan through the database, I see that many of you haven’t entered yet! Now is the time! The on-line registration page is up and running at http://pacificbrewerscup.pacificgravity.com/comp/. For your convenience, we recommend you bring your bottles to the club meeting on Thursday, August 21st at the Culver City Home Brewing Supply Co. If you can’t make it to the Culver City shop, the full list of sites you can drop off entries at any of the homebrew shops listed here. Please note that some of these shops close at 6:00 PM. Each entry requires 3 bottles, and has an entry fee of $7.00. Also, we need to borrow just about every ice chest this club can come up with. Bring them by the club meeting or take them over to Kingsley’s place by Sunday, the 24th. Make sure they are well labeled.
Also NOW! Volunteer to Judge or Steward! The very same registration page has a sign-up space for both. We are looking to have 60 judges and 30 stewards and as of the moment we are only half-way there. Signing up now will let us know if we need to run preliminary judging sessions.
Along the way, we have plenty of other tasks where we can use your assistance:
Saturday, August 23rd, Noon(ish)
Bottle Pick-up day. Volunteers Needed! We need someone to drive out to the remote drop-off sites in Long Beach, Torrance and Woodland Hills. Then, head over to Kingsley’s place to drop them off for safe keeping.
Sunday August 24th, 10:00 AM
Bottle Organizing day. Many volunteers needed. Bring your cooler if you haven’t already dropped one off. We need about a dozen folks to come by Kingsley’s place to help sift through the hundreds of bottles and arrange them by category, and put them into the coolers until judging.
August 25th – Sept 4th
Preliminary Judging Sessions. Time and locations TBD, so check back for updates. If we are short of judges and we have a lot of entries, there could be a number of these.
Friday, September 5th, 5:30 PM
Beer moving Day. We need a handful of guys with strong backs and couple of folks with trucks to help move the beer From Kingsley’s place to over to St. Bede’s Episcopal Church.
Saturday, September 6th, 9:00 AM
Judging Day! We need everybody out to help out on this one. I want to see at least 60 judges and 30 stewards. We will be doing both a morning and afternoon session, with a lunch break in-between. Afterwards, we need help at the end of the day to make sure we pick it all up and leave the Church clean. Many of the coolers will be empty by then. If so, please take yours home.
September 7th – Sept 14th
Post-judging sessions and Best of Show Judging. Time and locations TBD, so check back for updates. If we are short of judges and we have a lot of entries, there could be a number of these.
Sunday, September 14th
Cooler pick-up day. Come pick up your cooler, which will most likely have a present of several bottles of competition quality beer!
Awards Ceremony
Date TBD.
After all this hullabaloo, we can take a moment to look back at some recent accomplishments. We scored well in the 2014 Los Angeles County Fair; winners listed below. Complete results are available at http://www.maltosefalcons.com/blogs/cybertonian/2014-la-county-fair-homebrew-competition-results
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Entry Name |
Style |
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1st |
Craig Corley |
Helles #2 |
2.1: Munich-Style Helles |
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3rd |
Craig Corley |
Alt #13 |
8.2: Altbier |
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2nd |
Michael Patterson |
Porter |
16.1: English-Style Porter |
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3rd |
Michael Patterson |
Peche |
23.2: Fruit-Flavored Lambic-Style Ale and Faro |
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HM |
Michael Patterson |
Pale Ale |
5.1: American-Style Pale Ale |
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1st |
Eric Moreau |
The Meatloaf |
17.5: Foreign-Style Stout |
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Co-Brewer: Scott Stonberg |
The Meatloaf |
17.4: Export and Oatmeal (Sweet English-Style) Stout |
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3rd |
Eric Moreau |
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Co-Brewer: Scott Stonberg |
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1st |
Brian Holter |
Sled Dog |
14.3: Imperial (“Russian”) Stout |
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Co-Brewer: Kingsley Toby |
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1st |
Ryan Truax |
Mr. Peabody’s Elixir |
24.2: Herb- and/or Spice-flavored Beer |
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Co-Brewer: Constance Marshall |
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2nd |
Carl Townsend |
Saison |
22.2: Saison (Spring/Summer) |
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2nd |
Rafael Orozco |
Impatient Flanders |
23.5: Flanders-Style Red Ale |
With the ribbons in LACF, Michael Patterson takes a two-point lead over Carl Townsend in the Homebrewer of the Year Award. Finally, the last competition of the season will be the California State Homebrew Competition. Check back next month for details.
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Brewerof the Year totals as of LA County Fair |
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Brewer |
Points |
Ribbons |
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Michael Patterson |
10 |
6 |
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Carl Townsend |
8 |
4 |
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Kingsley Toby & Brian Holter |
6 |
3 |
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Craig Corley |
5 |
3 |
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Eric Moreau, Scott Stonberg |
4 |
2 |
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Simon Ford |
4 |
2 |
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Lloyd Johnson &Ted Silva |
3 |
1 |
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RyanTruax &Constance Marshall |
3 |
1 |
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Gerardo Reynoso |
2 |
1 |
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Rafael Orozco |
2 |
1 |
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Dan White |
1 |
1 |
While I’m at it, I would be remiss in not letting you know that the Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) is embarking on a new revision to the beer style guidelines. A Preliminary draft can be found here, and a discussion group will be posted here. If you have
ever though the styles were too restrictive, too dull, or otherwise not to your liking, now is your chance to speak up!
If you are hard-core competition junkie, there are a bazillion other contests to enter. The AHA has their master list at http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/competitions/aha-bjcp-sanctioned-competition/.
2014 Pacific Gravity Brewer of the Year Competition Schedule
Pacific Brewers Cup Activities:
August 21 Drop off your coolers for Pacific Brewers Cup
August 22 Entry Deadline for Pacific Brewers Cup
August 24 Entry Organizing Day. Volunteers Needed!
September 5th Bottle Moving Day. Volunteers Needed!
September 6 Judging Pacific Brewers Cup Volunteers Needed!
October California State Homebrew Competition
