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Big Spruce home brew competition 2018

Post by ackes » Wed Sep 19, 2018 8:36 am

Just saw details on the Facebook page.

Time to get brewin!


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Post by PMackie » Wed Sep 19, 2018 9:20 am

Nice, sent an email to Jeremy. Missed the post on Facebook so thanks for putting this here.
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Post by jacinthebox » Wed Sep 19, 2018 12:03 pm

Awesome...will brew up this weekend...just in case I need to rebrew
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Post by jacinthebox » Thu Oct 25, 2018 2:20 pm

Just kegged my 2 entries...tasting pretty good...don't think a rebrew is required
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Post by jacinthebox » Thu Nov 22, 2018 10:30 am

beer will be dropped off tomorrow...see everyone on Sunday
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Post by PMackie » Thu Nov 22, 2018 5:03 pm

Dropping mine off tomorrow as well, not sure I love the beer and its not a bad beer by any means, was never a huge fan of the style anyway. I am looking forward to seeing how its scored though, as that is why I enter.
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Post by jacinthebox » Fri Nov 23, 2018 10:29 pm

My wit is not a winner...the hefe isnt bad.
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Post by mckay75 » Mon Nov 26, 2018 9:13 am

Congrats to everyone who entered. Big congrats to Ian Wheatley for best of show! Always a fun event. Thanks to all the judges and the Big Spruce crew!

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Post by oceanic_brew » Mon Nov 26, 2018 12:51 pm

mckay75 wrote:Congrats to everyone who entered. Big congrats to Ian Wheatley for best of show! Always a fun event. Thanks to all the judges and the Big Spruce crew!
Yeah good job everyone. I didn’t place but scored a 32 and 36 with the judges. Had a great time. I’ve never made a Wit before and I absolutely love it. One of my most favorite brews I’ve done for some time now.

The judges seem to have picked up on the chamomile I used but not in a direct way. I think it threw them off a little whereas if they knew they were drinking a chamomile wit it may have made more sense. I purposely didn’t have any of the “secondary” flavorings too present as it seems that is often a mistake many make and Belgians are meant to be balanced.

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Post by jacinthebox » Mon Nov 26, 2018 5:32 pm

My beer wasnt good...confirmed by judges lol. Great seeing and talking with everyone
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Post by Naboo » Mon Nov 26, 2018 5:59 pm

Congrats to all who placed and thanks to Big Spruce for putting on a great event. Also thanks to Chris MacDonald for collecting the Truro brewnosers entries and saving us an extra drive to the city.

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Post by Brewnoser » Wed Nov 28, 2018 5:55 pm

Taylor and Chris did a great job! And there was a clear winner. That weizen was commercial quality.


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Re: Big Spruce home brew competition 2018

Post by chalmers » Thu Nov 29, 2018 11:58 am

Congrats to Ian and the other winners! Good showing this year, and Taylor did great to step in near the end to take over the beer coordination and judging, so that I could sit and judge this one.

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Re: Big Spruce home brew competition 2018

Post by GCR » Thu Nov 29, 2018 1:14 pm

Thanks again for picking up our entries in Moncton, Chris. Greatly appreciated!

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Re: Big Spruce home brew competition 2018

Post by GCR » Tue Dec 18, 2018 2:11 pm

Any news on the T-shirts?

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