Cedar Rapids Brewing Society

Just a reminder to the new board: Competition styles for July and October need to be determined.

Munich Helles is an April turn in, not March. Sorry for the error.

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.

Thoughts/Ideas?

I like that idea a lot!

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I am down with this.

Would it be any benefit for entries to disclose what their system is? Fly, batch or no sparge? Etc. I personally don't sparge when I do beers under 1.050 most of the time. Actual OG/FG vs recipe target OG/FG

Items that need to be constants:
Grain bill %
Hops additions in IBUs?
Mash temp
Yeast strain

The biggest liberty will be fermentation temps that I can see. Sounds like a lot of fun.

Or give them a strict list and quantity of ingredients that the beer must only contain.
Leave technique TBD.

This would be best as a tech meeting I think. It might be useful to help people figure out what they could improve or what they are doing well. I suspect that would be more valuable for most than who or what system is "best".

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2017 Competition Styles
January: 11A Ordinary Bitter (1st Tony B, 2nd Chris Z, 3rd Randy C)
April: 24A Belgian Wit
July: 20C Imperial Stout
October: 6A Marzen

2019 Club Competition Styles
This year we will be adding another turn-in for points: Mead!
Now, on to the styles:

January: 20b American Stout
April: 18b American Pale Ale
May: M2c Berry Mead
July: 29a Fruit Beer
October: 6c Dukels Bock

Beer styles are linked to the 2015 Style Guideline, click to go to the description for each.

jjpeanasky wrote:2019 Club Competition Styles
This year we will be adding another turn-in for points: Mead!
Now, on to the styles:

January: 20b American Stout
April: 18b American Pale Ale
May: M2c Berry Mead
July: 29a Fruit Beer
October: 6c Dukels Bock

Beer styles are linked to the 2015 Style Guideline, click to go to the description for each.

I might actually have something to enter this year.