Post here if you would be interested in participating/contributing....meaning, you would be willing to brew a stock recipe using your system and style of brewing. And would be willing to share your results with a group.Postby Eric B » Fri Jan 22, 2016 10:05 pm
I have a proposal that we can use for a club competition or tech meeting. My idea is that we all get the same recipe (Broken down by percentages so you can adjust to your system) and we all brew that exact same beer. The competition side is that the judges critique the beer on how well it was brewed versus the others. So kind of a brew off, if you will... Orrrr we can use it for a tech meeting so that we can discuss why there is certain differences in each beer that was brewed. Help us all maybe learn more on changes we can make to better ourselves. My thoughts is that we use a fairly simple style such as an American Pale Ale for this experiment/competition.
I think the Tech Meeting would involve:
1) Participants submit two 12 oz bottles of their brew.
2) Judging the entries, in the blind, very similar to how we execute our club competitions....but everyone would judge.
3) After the judging, we could have a roundtable discussion, beginning with each brewer discussing briefly, their system and technique....share their brewing notes.
4) Followed by an open discussion on the judging results versus the techniques applied.
I would open this to Extract, Partial-Mash, and All-Grain techniques. We would just have to come up with three recipes.
Thoughts?
When would you like to do this?
If this were a January or February Tech meeting, it might help support our emerging winter pour events. We will have the Bunged Competition in early Fall....not that would factor much into scheduling this.
Let's kick around a few ideas.
