Brewing Network Homebrew Competion

[beer_bear]

I know that I could lose or take last place, but it's my first go at a comp. So if I do, the world will still spin, I will still have air in my lungs, I won't lose my family, lose my home or never be able to brew again. So that means that it just doesn't matter at this point. I will be fine if I don't win. I know that I'm entering a popular category and it's a tight one. So I'm taking that into consideration. If I come in behind you Lars, all I can say is congrats .
So I'll see you in the competition. Good luck everyone.

[Lars]

I know that I could lose or take last place, but it's my first go at a comp. So if I do, the world will still spin, I will still have air in my lungs, I won't lose my family, lose my home or never be able to brew again. So that means that it just doesn't matter at this point. I will be fine if I don't win. I know that I'm entering a popular category and it's a tight one. So I'm taking that into consideration. If I come in behind you Lars, all I can say is congrats .
So I'll see you in the competition. Good luck everyone.

Uh... I was actually just talking trash. In last years comp there were only 3 entries in the English Brown category. So maybe not as popular as you may think. I'm really throwing my hat in the ring this year by entering an American Brown. American Brown is in the same category as American Pale. Last year this was a very popular category. I think there were 30+ entries. We'll see how I do this year!

[Junket]

I've never entered a competition before, but TBN has me feeling cocky... uh... I mean confident. So here's a newbie question, and excuse me if I'm missing the whole point of competitions: do I need to use my own recipe, or can I use a recipe that I've found? One of my best beers so far is a Poor Richard's Ale that I took a stab at after hearing one of the brewers on the Sunday Show talk about. I got the recipe from the internet and stayed pretty faithful to it.

[bub]

Use whatever reicpe you want...
For the most part recipe means nothing.. our club all had the exact same kit from the exact same store and every beer was different... it is the brewer that makes the wort and the environment for the yeast to make the beer...
You said cocky ... heh heh heh
BUB

[Push Eject]

I second Bub's post.

This is also why I wanna slap pro brewers who flat out refuse to give a recipe for their beers.

C'MON, BITCHES! Process is everything... The BN teaches us that time and time again. Hell... LIFE teaches us that.

Process, temperature control, yeast health, repeatability; none of these things are related to the recipe. So BREW ON, brother, regardless of where it came from. I took bronze with a smoked porter from a club recipe that had been around for at least 10 years!

Rock on and
Push Eject

[Junket]

OK, then I'm gonna send it in to the next competition in my area. Thanks to all of you for this community... a few months ago I never would have guessed that I'd be all-grain brewing and entering competitions. Justin, another one of your listeners is all growed up thanks to this thing you started. Look at me making a thank you speech and I haven't even won yet. YET.

Now I just have to figure out what category to enter this thing in.

[Kaiser]

This is also why I wanna slap pro brewers who flat out refuse to give a recipe for their beers.

If the recipe is not so important, why do you want to have it

But I hear you PE, I'd like to know the recipe for many commercial beers as well. Mostly to get an idea of how simple or complex they actually are and how much they are taking from the recipe and how much they are taking from the process. It would also shorten my learning curve in underanding how to get certain tastes into your beer.

But unfortunately there often is way to much money involved.

Kai

[Sven]

I've had this competition on my list of comps to enter but I was going to do it under my clubs name. However, I guess I can be bought for a buck so... I'll enter under TBN. That and my club left me hanging when I needed their help last week.