Competitions

The American Homebrewers Association (AHA) National Homebrew Competion (NHC) is just 2 1/2 months away! Yes, thats a mere 84 days. Take a look at your calendar and choose your brew session now. With the NHC awards ceremony being held in Bellevue (a.k.a The National Homebrew Conference), it would be really great to have a bunch of WSB brewers do well in the competition this year. We'll post more information about drop-off locations as details become available. 

Complete info here, important dates below:

Online Registration: Available mid-February 2012

Entry Shipping: March 19-28, 2012

First Round Competitions: March 30-April 22, 2012

First Round Results: May 4, 2012

The results of the Kitsap County Fair Home Brew Competition are available HERE. Congratulations to Kenny Davis, winner of the Robert Allen Award for Excellence in Homebrewing with his Oak Aged Bourbon/Vanilla Porter. There will be an awards ceremony for the participants at Silvercity Brewery in Bremerton, Friday September 2nd at 6:30pm.

The drop-off window is now closed for the 2011 WSB/KCF Homebrew Competition.  See this post for complete info.

**Update** 2 bottles per beer.  The rules say 3, but we only need 2 bottles. Sorry about the confustion.

West Sound Brewers will be putting on the 2011 Kitsap County Fair Homebrew Competition. This is our 6th year organizing the comp. There is still time to brew some beer specifically for the competition. Entries will be accepted July 16-23 at our usual drop-off locations: Olympic Brewing Supplies in Bremerton, Sound Brewery in Poulsbo, and Hood Canal Brewery in Kingston. The full entry rules can be found at the Fair website.

When preparing your entries, we strongly encourage you to use our Online Label Generator to print out your competition labels.  In addition to saving you time, it will help keep us organized. Blank labels will be available at the drop off locations in the near future.

Here are the top winners in each ribbon category for the 2010 Kitsap County Fair Homebrew Competition. The awards ceremoney will be Monday, August 30, 6:30 pm and Silver City's new brewery in Bremerton. I will try to post full results within the next day or so:

Best of Show-Pure Pils-2A-German Pilsner-Mike Wood

Best of Class (Lager/Hybrid)-Pure Pils-2A-German Pilsner-Mike Wood
2. Klassic Kolsch-6C-Kolsch-Sean C. Brooks
3. Jagerbrau-3A-Vienna Lager-Dan Kranenburg

Best of Class (Mead/Cider)-Harvest Moon Cyser-26C-Open Category Mead-Paul J. Mackanos III

Best of Class (Ale)-Insanity Imperial-13F-Russian Imperial Stout-Steve Moga

Best Belgian Ale-Saint Erasmus-18E-Belgian Dark Strong Ale-Paul J. Mackanos III
2. Amber Hall-16B-Belgian Pale Ale-Noal Hall

Best British Ale-BIG Mild-11A-Mild-Kevin Hovater
t2. McKay Clan's Best-9C-Scottish Export 80/--Donald Beckett
t2. Chesterton's Special Bitter-8C-Extra Special/Strong Bitter-Dan Kranenburg
t2. Potsies Porter-12A-Brown Porter-Mike Montoney

Best American Pale/Amber Ale-Hop Kitty Pale Ale-10A-American Pale Ale-Dave Frombach
2. Double Barrel Red-10B-American Amber Ale-Mike Montoney
3. Fair Daze Pale Ale-10A-American Pale Ale-Sean Reichle

Best American IPA-Broken Wing IPA-14B-American IPA-Mike Montoney
2. Mystic Brew IPA-14B-American IPA-Dave Frombach
3. Pliny the Elder Clone-14B-American IPA-Richard Mueller

Best Wheat Beer-CarlyWeizen-15A-Weizen/Weissbier-Bruce and Joel "Joe" Michelson

Best Special/Other Beer Categories-Old 44 (Black IPA)-23-Specialty Beer-Mike Montoney

Judges' Award-Weirdest Wonderful Brew-Banana Cream Ale-Steven Adams

Just a quick post to let you know there has been a slight change to our competition procedures. Fair passes will not be available until after the entry window closes, so we will mail the passes to all entrants who have paid the entry fee when they become available. When you enter, whether by using the online label generator (highly recommend) or by filling out a label form, please include your mailing address so we can mail you the passes when we receive them.

Again this year the club is organizing the Kitsap County Fair Homebrew Competition. This year, select entries will be chosen to be brewed by professional breweries, with participation from Silver City, Hale's Ales, and possibly Der Blokken.

The dropoff window will be July 17-24. Once again, we will use the online entry/label maker system we used last year. It's live, so go ahead and make your labels if you are ready.

If you have your beers ready, and you come to the July Meeting at the Riggs' home, you can give them to Brad Ginn and save yourself a trip to drop them off.

Click Here for a lot more info about the competition.