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Re: Big Spruce Home Brew Comp 2015 - 3 Styles

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2015 10:03 am
by jacinthebox
Awesome

Re: Big Spruce Home Brew Comp 2015 - 3 Styles

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2015 11:42 am
by Keith
Cheers see you then!

Re: Big Spruce Home Brew Comp 2015 - 3 Styles

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2015 11:45 am
by chalmers
Thanks Jeremy!

Re: Big Spruce Home Brew Comp 2015 - 3 Styles

Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 9:32 pm
by Keith
Mike and I are brewing the Altbier and Dark Czech Lager this weekend. Just finished reviewing the recipes and adjusted based on ingredients we had available. We are both excited to brew this weekend. Going to be interesting to see what we end up with lol.

Any idea on who's all entering the comp? I know the Justin and Eric are entering from Brathair.

Re: Big Spruce Home Brew Comp 2015 - 3 Styles

Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 10:02 pm
by LiverDance
I'll be in again this year. Always a fun comp and now with an after party


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Re: Big Spruce Home Brew Comp 2015 - 3 Styles

Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 10:09 pm
by Lucas
I'm hoping to enter an alt and a RIPA - we'll see if I can get them both brewed in time.

Re: Big Spruce Home Brew Comp 2015 - 3 Styles

Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 10:23 pm
by derek
BigSpruce wrote: I can't tell you how strongly I feel about the fact that more than any other group, home brewers feed the craft passion and growth in NS.
And I'm sure I don't need to tell you that far too many commercial enterprises (like, say, the NSLC) just don't get that...

Thanks, Jeremy

Re: Big Spruce Home Brew Comp 2015 - 3 Styles

Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2015 10:30 pm
by LeafMan66_67
I'm in with at least 2, maybe 3. Like LD says, now with an after party!

Re: Big Spruce Home Brew Comp 2015 - 3 Styles

Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2015 6:01 am
by GuingesRock
BigSpruce wrote:Hey All - sorry I don't monitor this as often as I should. Thank you Chris for clarifying a few things. We're really excited to expand this competition this year. All 3 styles are personal favourites of mine.

I'm really hoping for as many entries as possible this year. I can't tell you how strongly I feel about the fact that more than any other group, home brewers feed the craft passion and growth in NS. I'm hoping to keep growing the competition as a way of promoting beer passion, but also as a way of giving back. That's why this year we will do a little gathering at Wooden Monkey Dartmouth after the judging and announcement of winners. All participants and judges are welcome. We'll provide some food, and if the Monkey will accommodate, I'll try and bring a keg of something special too.

We make a point of running our business without ever advertising or marketing. We turn down dozens of advertising opportunities every year. I'm not sure we'll always be able to be like that, but for now word of mouth and good beer is plenty enough to sell everything we make. I make a purposeful exception about advertising when it comes to supporting home brewing, and always will. This is why we fully sponsored the amazing Brewnoser competition this year. I just strongly feel that helping you all is less about advertising and more about giving back to a group of individuals that support our business and NSCraft more than the average craftie!

So get brewing, and I'll see you at the Wooden Monkey end of November!
:rockin: :cheers2: :cheers3: :cheers: :rockin: :cheers2: :cheers3: :cheers: :rockin:

I'm doing a RIPA and an Alt. It'll be fun. Thanks for putting this on.

Re: Big Spruce Home Brew Comp 2015 - 3 Styles

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2015 8:05 pm
by pet lion
Got my Altbier on the go and will get a Red IPA together as well.

Re: Big Spruce Home Brew Comp 2015 - 3 Styles

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2015 8:34 pm
by LeafMan66_67
Alt is conditioning, Czech Lager on Sunday and the RIPA next weekend.

Re: Big Spruce Home Brew Comp 2015 - 3 Styles

Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2015 12:14 pm
by mcgster
This should be a good competition, i have to sit this one out but i'll be interested to see the results. Good luck!

Re: Big Spruce Home Brew Comp 2015 - 3 Styles

Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2015 9:17 pm
by GuingesRock
It's coming up for time to send these in. I sent mine off to Big Spruce today (RIPA and Altbier). Jeremy said he had lots of cold storage there.

Good luck all!

Re: Big Spruce Home Brew Comp 2015 - 3 Styles

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 12:04 am
by chalmers
As a reminder, I am the HRM drop-point, so please contact me to set up a date/time. Entries accepted until Nov 27th, but don't be afraid to get them to me earlier, to ensure life doesn't get in the way.

Re: Big Spruce Home Brew Comp 2015 - 3 Styles

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 9:38 am
by jacinthebox
Thanks Chris...I'll get ours to you next week...whenever it works best for you

Re: Big Spruce Home Brew Comp 2015 - 3 Styles

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 10:10 am
by GuingesRock
jacinthebox wrote:Thanks Chris...I'll get ours to you next week...whenever it works best for you
Good Luck Justin. Is anyone else sending to this?

Re: Big Spruce Home Brew Comp 2015 - 3 Styles

Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 2:20 pm
by jacinthebox
GuingesRock wrote:
jacinthebox wrote:Thanks Chris...I'll get ours to you next week...whenever it works best for you
Good Luck Justin. Is anyone else sending to this?

3 out of the 4 brathairs are sending in for this...

Good luck to you as well

Re: Big Spruce Home Brew Comp 2015 - 3 Styles

Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2015 10:27 am
by mcgster
I brewed a RIPA for this and thought my entry would be un submittable, a couple pours and my nice red IPA was constantly dark brown in the class.. It goes without saying I hopped the day lights out of it but I didn't think it would turn brown!!

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Turns out I had a poppet problem and way too much sediment from the secondary

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Re: Big Spruce Home Brew Comp 2015 - 3 Styles

Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2015 10:39 am
by mcgster
Those pics ended up WAY larger than normal and i'm not sure why, i posted via tapatalk!

Re: Big Spruce Home Brew Comp 2015 - 3 Styles

Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2015 11:22 am
by mckay75
I had full intention of submitting my Red IPA to this comp...but I drank it all. Saved myself $25! :rockin:

Re: Big Spruce Home Brew Comp 2015 - 3 Styles

Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2015 9:01 pm
by GuingesRock
mckay75 wrote:I had full intention of submitting my Red IPA to this comp...but I drank it all.
:slap:

Was it good?

That nearly happened to mine. When I came to keg there was only 1/4 batch left. I wasn't the only culprit.

Re: Big Spruce Home Brew Comp 2015 - 3 Styles

Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2015 9:13 am
by mckay75
GuingesRock wrote:
mckay75 wrote:I had full intention of submitting my Red IPA to this comp...but I drank it all.
:slap:

Was it good?

That nearly happened to mine. When I came to keg there was only 1/4 batch left. I wasn't the only culprit.

It was very good...I quite enjoyed it! First time using Conan...quite pleased with the result!

Re: Big Spruce Home Brew Comp 2015 - 3 Styles

Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2015 9:21 am
by chalmers
I moved the Brathair Brewng related stuff to: http://www.brewnosers.org/forums/viewto ... f=3&t=9069" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Re: Big Spruce Home Brew Comp 2015 - 3 Styles

Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2015 12:07 pm
by Keith
I'll be muling beers in to Chris from Sackville if anyone wants to drop off their entries to me. Probably will be tomorrow or weds.

Re: Big Spruce Home Brew Comp 2015 - 3 Styles

Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2015 8:19 pm
by jacinthebox
Just dropped our entries off.
Eric and I each entered all 3 categories...and our buddy entered a red ipa.

Is everyone putting in for all 3 categories?