2011 Club Only Competition Schedule
From the American Homebrewer's Association (AHA) Website:
The Club-Only Competition (COC) program offers AHA-Registered Homebrew Clubs an opportunity to compete with other AHA-registered homebrew clubs. Each competition concentrates attention on a specific style of beer or mead, giving your club the opportunity to educate club members in these styles by focusing on them at club meetings or tasting events.
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All AHA-registered homebrew clubs are eligible to host and to compete in the COC. Each club may only send one entry per competition. Your club should determine the procedure for selecting your club’s entry. Selection procedures can vary widely–some clubs choose an entry during an informal tasting, while larger clubs often run a formal competition. The club then sends the chosen entry to the appropriate judging site (see Schedule).
If your club’s entry places in any of the six Club-Only Competitions that are held on an August to May cycle, your club earns points towards the AHA Homebrew Club of the Year award on a twelve-eight-four basis for first, second and third places respectively. Additional club points are earned on a six-four-two basis for first, second and third places respectively in the First and Final Rounds of the National Homebrew Competition.
Each Club-Only Competition covers one or more categories with one or more subcategories from the BJCP Style Guidelines. To ensure your club’s entry is appropriately evaluated, pay close attention to the categories and subcategories of the competition.
ASH is participating in this series of competitions again this year. The entries will be due at the general meetings according to the following schedule:
January - Bitters (Won by Ken Forrey with an ESB)
March - Bock (Won by Ken Saxe with a Helles Bock)
April - Wood Aged Beer (Won by Tom Tomczyk with a Wooden Pail Ale)
July - Mead (Won by Barry Tingleff with a Traditional Semi-Sweet Mead)
September - Specialty/Experimental/Historical (Won by Keevin Simpson with a Cream Ale with Herbs)
November - Hefeweizen (Won by Chris Sprague with a Hefeweizen)
Instructions for submitting entries:
- Rubber-band a completed Bottle Identification Form (PDF file) to each of three (3) brown or green glass, 10 to 14 ounce bottles of homebrew. One is needed for ASH to judge and two are needed by the AHA to judge. Clear-glass bottles and bottles smaller than or larger than 10-14 ounces will be disqualified. Bottles with raised glass lettering are discouraged, but not prohibited.
- Using a permanent black marker, obliterate any and all words or pictures on the caps.
- Fill out an Entry/Recipe Form Entry/Recipe Form (PDF file) completely, (you must fill in the category and subcategory you are entering!) and attach it to one of the bottles with a rubber band.
All entries will be judged by an ASH committee of BJCP certified judges. Score sheets will be returned to all participants at the next general meeting. The highest scoring entry will be passed on to the AHA for judging.
Any questions should be emailed to Barry Weeg at competition at azhomebrewers dot org.
Comment
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Competition Committee Comment by Barry Weeg on November 19, 2011 at 11:02am -
November's competition has been judged. Chris Sprague won with a hefeweizen. It has already been mailed off. Good luck Chris.
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Competition Committee Comment by Barry Weeg on November 16, 2011 at 10:31am -
Sorry, looks like I forgot to post the winner of Septembers competition. It was Keevin Simpson. I will let him describe the beer:
"Beer brewed with summer solstice herbs and slightly hoppier than a traditional cream ale.Herb blend including calendula, chamomile, St. John's wort, elder flower, & eyebright."
I also forgot to bring the score sheets to the meeting last night, but I will have them at the holiday party.
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Competition Committee Comment by Barry Weeg on September 22, 2011 at 8:54am -
Oh, and Ken is right about the bottles. Only two bottles are needed for all the competitions: Club Only, Homebrewer of the Year, and Oktoberfest. Yes, according to the BJCP three bottles is usually the standard. But I have found that in OUR competitions that just leads to a couple hundred wasted bottles. In all the competitions I have judged/organized, there has never been a single instance of us using all three bottles. Granted, that is subjective and rather limited in data points. I'm sure there have been plenty of instances of needing three bottles in other competitions, but until it bites me in the ass, I'm willing to take the risk.
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Competition Committee Comment by Barry Weeg on September 22, 2011 at 8:39am -
Keevin, I think Ken was thinking about the discussion we had at the meeting regarding how many beers you can enter in category 23. The category 23 beers that we collected at the meeting are for the Club Only Competition. We haven't scheduled a time to judge these yet, but it will probably be next week sometime.
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Comment by Keevin Simpson on September 21, 2011 at 3:28pm -
Ok, so just so I understand correctly, the Specialty/Experimental Category 23 beers that were due last night for the Club Only Competition will be judged on the 15th with the Oktoberfest beers?
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Comment by Ken Saxe on September 21, 2011 at 1:45pm -
FYI: According to Barry (competition organizer) only two bottles are needed per entry not three.
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Comment by Ken Saxe on September 21, 2011 at 1:40pm
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All of the entries will be judged on the same day...Your entries are due Oct 13th and judging will be on Oct 15th. You will find out how you di at Oktoberfest on Oct 22nd. Check out the competition page for more details.
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Comment by Keevin Simpson on September 21, 2011 at 10:28am
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One more question, which you may have mentioned last night and I didn't hear - when will the Specialty beers be judged?
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Comment by Keevin Simpson on September 13, 2011 at 2:49pm
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Great; well, then I'm good to go! Thanks.
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Competition Committee Comment by Barry Weeg on September 13, 2011 at 8:30am -
Keevin, that is correct. Since category 23 is a catch-all category that has a potentially infinite number of styles associated with it, there is basically no limit on the number of beers you can enter in it.
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Comment by Keevin Simpson on September 12, 2011 at 11:40am
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I assume that we can enter more than one beer into the competition?
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Competition Committee Comment by Barry Weeg on August 1, 2011 at 9:49am -
The next event in this series is due at the September general meeting and covers everything in BJCP Category 23. Entries must specify the experimental nature of the beer (e.g. type of special ingredients used, process utilized or historical style being brewed), or why the beer doesn't fit an established style. Additionally, the entrant may specify an underlying beer style. For historical styles or unusual ingredients/techniques that may not be known to beer judges, the brewer should provide descriptions of the styles, ingredients and/or techniques used. This is a tricky category to enter and judge. It is vital you include this information since it is impossible to judge this style without it. Any entry that does not include the above will be disqualified.
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Competition Committee Comment by Barry Weeg on August 1, 2011 at 9:42am -
The meads have been judged and out of 7 entries Barry Tingleff was the winner with his Traditional Semi-Sweet Mead. Congratulations Barry!
I will bring the scoresheets to the next general meeting. I also still have a bunch of scoresheets from previous Club Only and Homebrewer of the Year comps, so if you're missing a scoresheet from one of these events, search me out at the meeting, I probably have it.
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Comment by Kevin Masaryk on June 22, 2011 at 10:45pm -
The CoC results for Wood-Aged are in from the AHA. I'd like to point something very important out for future competitors; Notice how each beer that won LISTED THE CATEGORY OF THE BASE STYLE. If you refuse to do this for categories such as this or Belgian Specialty, Fruit Beer, S/H/V, etc., you will never score well at a BJCP-sanctioned competition. Judges don't like to play "guess the base beer" for categories like this and tend to award points accordingly. You have been warned.
Don't short-change yourself after spending all that time crafting what could be a high-scoring beer.
"Angel's Share" Wood-Aged Beer Competition (May 14, 2011)
Award Brewer Club Affiliation Beer First Place Kelly & Jason Kruegel
Parker, CORock Hoppers "Scotchy, Scotchy, Scotch,"
Strong Scotch Ale base beer,
category 9E baseSecond Place Steve Oven
Brooklyn, NYNew Yoprk City
Homebrewers GuildBourbon Barrel Oak-Aged Porter
base beer, category 12 baseThird Place Brian Hoesing
Lincoln, NELincoln Lagers Imperial Stout base beer aged with
Jack Daniels Oak Chips, category 13F base
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Comment by Ken Saxe on May 11, 2011 at 1:19am
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Results from Tulsa, OK: My Helles Bock scored a 43 against the other clubs bocks but did not place...
Club-Only Competition Results for 2010-2011
Bock Competition (April 23, 2011)
The AHA thanks Desiree Knott and the Fellowship of Oklahome Ale Makers (FOAM) of Tulsa, OK for hosting the Bock Club-Only Competition held April 23, 2011. This competition covered category 5 of the 2008 BJCP style guidelines. This was the fifth of six competitions in the August to May 2010-2011 cycle, with points going toward the Homebrew Club of the Year trophy. Points are awarded on a twelve-eight-four basis for first, second, and third place in the Club-Only Competitions. First, second, and third places in both the First and Final Round of the AHA National Homebrew Competition earn points on a six-four-two basis.
Of the 64 entries submitted by AHA homebrew clubs in 32 States, the following winners were chosen.
Award Brewer Club Affiliation Beer First Place Chris & Nick Orton
Longmont, COIndian Peaks Alers "Bock Minor," Traditional Bock,
category 5BSecond Place Michael Isley
Fargo, NDPrairie Homebrewing
CompanionsEisbock, category 5D Third Place Timothy Collins
Grand Island, NYNiagara Association
of Homebrewers"Tripelbock," Doppelbock,
category 5C
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Competition Committee Comment by Barry Weeg on March 24, 2011 at 9:40am -
The bocks have been judged! Out of 6 entries, Ken Saxe won with his Helles Bock. We will be mailing this off to the AHA in the next couple weeks. Good luck, Ken!
We filled out score sheets for these and they will be available for pickup at the next general meeting.
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Comment by Ken "Triple Hopped" Forrey on January 31, 2011 at 7:27pm -
If you haven't started working on your Wood Aged beer yet, get going soon. April will be coming up quick.
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