Cedar Rapids Brewing Society

Hey all,

For those that have not seen yet and are interested in entering. The National Hombrewers Compitition is now accepting entries for this year.

Make sure that you get you entries registered fairly early as several of the regions actually filled last year and they closed down accepting beers before the deadline. There is a 750 entry limit for each region.

Go to the below link to register yourself then after that to register your beers. You can register and pay, then brew your beers here in a couple of weeks. They accept entries through sometime in mid March. Information is at the below link:

http://www.brewingcompetition.com/NHC/nhc.php

Jeremy

Also, new this year, you can choose to enter any region. That way if one region near you fills up, you can enter in another region. Closest to us is in Madison, WI.

Matt F wrote:Also, new this year, you can choose to enter any region. That way if one region near you fills up, you can enter in another region. Closest to us is in Madison, WI.

Yep that is correct. One nice things is I checked the numbers yesterday and Madison has the lowest entry count to date. At least according to the site. Which I am assuming the site calcuates and addes the entires up as people submit them since the only way to register is through that site.

Entered my 6 beers on Tuesday night. I've got a black IPA, cider, american amber ale, bock, scottish 60/-, and Maibock. My dark american lager has too much diacytl and just won't do well this year. I'm pretty happy with these 6, though. With AHA membership it's $9 per entry. I ship a box through Vineria and their UPS account so works well.

I'm entering a Sweet Stout, Schwarzbier, Maibock, and possibly a Jalepeno Blond.

I'm thinking about making a road trip up to Madison on the 26th to drop off entries. If anyone wants to go let me know. If I go I can take other people's entries with me. Drop off time is between 1-4pm so we could either go up in the morning and hit a few breweries and have lunch, or go a bit later and have dinner.

Lot's of great brewery stop options along the way and in Madison.

Damn, Randy, now you got me interested in going to bring my beers up there instead of mailing. I'll check with the social planner for that weekend and let you know on Thursday at the meeting.

carrisr wrote:I'm entering a Sweet Stout, Schwarzbier, Maibock, and possibly a Jalepeno Blond.

I'm thinking about making a road trip up to Madison on the 26th to drop off entries. If anyone wants to go let me know. If I go I can take other people's entries with me. Drop off time is between 1-4pm so we could either go up in the morning and hit a few breweries and have lunch, or go a bit later and have dinner.

Lot's of great brewery stop options along the way and in Madison.

Randy, I'm not entering anything but it sounds like a great road-trip. I'll check with my wife to make sure I'm not already committed but I'd like to go.

JimF wrote:

carrisr wrote:I'm entering a Sweet Stout, Schwarzbier, Maibock, and possibly a Jalepeno Blond.

I'm thinking about making a road trip up to Madison on the 26th to drop off entries. If anyone wants to go let me know. If I go I can take other people's entries with me. Drop off time is between 1-4pm so we could either go up in the morning and hit a few breweries and have lunch, or go a bit later and have dinner.

Lot's of great brewery stop options along the way and in Madison.

Randy, I'm not entering anything but it sounds like a great road-trip. I'll check with my wife to make sure I'm not already committed but I'd like to go.

Randy, it turns out that I already had plans for Saturday. Maybe next time...

Thanks,

Randy, I'm in! I was going to call Keith Symonds, the Madison organizer, and see what time we had to have the beer there. I'll be ready to go whenever you are on Saturday. Just tell me when and where.

If my pale ale's I just kegged taste right I may send them in and/or my hefe. I will let you know before Friday. I can't make the trip but would appreciate it if you could deliver them for me.

Matt F wrote:If my pale ale's I just kegged taste right I may send them in and/or my hefe. I will let you know before Friday. I can't make the trip but would appreciate it if you could deliver them for me.

dido, on that, I am waiting on a couple of beers, hopefully I can be ready by this coming weekend.

I can't go, but if you doing a delivery I four ciders I need dropped off in Madison.

Rick

So far it looks like John and I are on for the road trip. Anyone else?

For beer delivery, you can drop them off at my house nearly any reasonable hour as I work from home. I also might be talked into a run to 3B Friday afternoon. I'd probably want to get there by 4pm as it gets busy fast, but I'd likely stay long enough to get something to eat. Please read the entry rules and have your beers properly labeled and packaged.

Randy,

I will buy you a beer at Third Base tomorrow at 4:00 and drop off my entries with you.


Rick

Don't think I will get you any entries this time Randy. Maybe next time. Have fun in Madison.