2009 Kitsap County Fair Homebrew Competition Results

Here are the results of the 2009 Kitsap County Fair Homebrew Competition. Congratulations to all the winners. Award ceremonies will be scheduled soon and entrants will be notified by email of the dates.

Special congratulations to: Best of Show: Sean Reichle for his Spotted Horse Smokey Lager (22A. Classic Rauchbier) 1st Runner Up: Paul J. Mackanos III for his J's Triple-Berry Melomel (25C. Other Fruit Melomel) 2nd Runner Up: J. Mark Hood for his Bionator (5C. Doppelbock) The quality of the entries was very high as usual. Four beers, one mead, and one cider advanced to the Best of Show round, and the judges found it extremely difficult to select the award winners.

Big thanks to Matt Riggs and Brad Ginn for all their hard work organizing the competition. Thanks also go to all the judges for helping out and to people who hosted judging sessions, as well as everyone else who helped make this year's competition a success.

Special thanks to our sponsors, including Olympic Brewing Supplies, Hood Canal Brewery, Silver City Brewery, and Wyeast.

For the first time, this year we organized the entries into Ribbon Categories in order to increase the competition for ribbons. The top three entries in each category (top two for mead & cider since we only had two entries in each) are listed below.