Cedar Rapids Brewing Society

Posted: **Sat Oct 08, 2011 2:43 pm**

Hats off to Tim Sines for his 3rd place finish with his Coffee Porter

and to

TOM BURNS

who brought home the gilded hop trophy with a 1st Place finish for his Dunkelweisse!!

Good Day overall for the Beer Nuts. We got a lot of leads on potential new members and actually sold a shirt or two.

Posted: **Sat Oct 08, 2011 3:32 pm**

Congrats to Tim and Tom!

Here are the links to my scores:

http://db.tt/DEszHTjr
http://db.tt/snCa475u
http://db.tt/eDZL7Sh9

Posted: **Sat Oct 08, 2011 4:09 pm**

Way to go Beer Nuts! All the BN beers were great in my opinion. Which beer took second then?

Posted: **Sat Oct 08, 2011 5:28 pm**

carrisr wrote:Way to go Beer Nuts! All the BN beers were great in my opinion. Which beer took second then?

It was the oaked scottish ale.

Posted: **Sat Oct 08, 2011 9:26 pm**

First off, I’d like to thank Randy, and Tony for helping me work the beer nuts table today, it was a great way to represent the club since this was a home brew tasting ONLY. From my knowledge this is the only home brew tasting event I’ve seen since the one we did at Millstream where we allured Randy into the arms of Beer Nuts. Now my email box has an extra 1K emails…haha. From the people I spoke to there was a lot of enthusiasm to participate in future club meetings and/or activities such as tastings.

Of course congratulations to all of the Nuts that represented, not only did we place 1st and 3rd from our own club members, but think in general the whole lineup of brewers that were there did a decent job (whew) So I think home brewers still have a good name in our fair town CR.

I spent some time talking to Wayne after the event, and he mentioned for those who are not aware another event, not home brewing per say in January and he hopes to do something quarterly so I suspect another event similar to this one will crop back up in the next year.

From: carrisr [mailto:brew-events@crbeernuts.org]
Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2011 5:10 PM
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Way to go Beer Nuts! All the BN beers were great in my opinion. Which beer took second then?

Randy Carris
Trouble Brewing

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Posted: **Mon Oct 10, 2011 3:17 pm**

A friend of the guy that took second contacted me. The guy that took second, Alex, was told by the folks at Zepplin's they would like to buy his beer if he can make it happen legally. He asked my friend, who then put Alex in contact with me. I explained some of the issues with that (basically you will need to open a brewery) and invited him to the next meeting. I also asked what his beer was for Randy. I will let you know when I hear back.

Posted: **Mon Oct 10, 2011 3:32 pm**

Matt F wrote:A friend of the guy that took second contacted me. The guy that took second, Alex, was told by the folks at Zepplin's they would like to buy his beer if he can make it happen legally. He asked my friend, who then put Alex in contact with me. I explained some of the issues with that (basically you will need to open a brewery) and invited him to the next meeting. I also asked what his beer was for Randy. I will let you know when I hear back.

2nd was a Smoked Scotch Ale. Zepplins has a house beer. If they could get the same people to make his recipe then they could put his beer on tap.

If they want a Smoked Scotch Ale I think we can get them a better recipe though.

Posted: **Mon Oct 10, 2011 3:41 pm**

After the 2010 NHC I felt like a scotch ale expert. I think I had 20 there and at least 10 of them were barrel aged. That reminds me, I should brew mine soon for next fall.

Posted: **Mon Oct 10, 2011 3:51 pm**

tompb wrote:
Matt F wrote:A friend of the guy that took second contacted me. The guy that took second, Alex, was told by the folks at Zepplin's they would like to buy his beer if he can make it happen legally. He asked my friend, who then put Alex in contact with me. I explained some of the issues with that (basically you will need to open a brewery) and invited him to the next meeting. I also asked what his beer was for Randy. I will let you know when I hear back.
2nd was a Smoked Scotch Ale. Zepplins has a house beer. If they could get the same people to make his recipe then they could put his beer on tap.

If they want a Smoked Scotch Ale I think we can get them a better recipe though.

It was an oak aged scotch ale, not smoked. I thought it was really good. In fact, I thought it would win. I thought the berliner weisse was the best beer there.

Posted: **Mon Oct 10, 2011 4:52 pm**

brownbeard wrote:
tompb wrote:
Matt F wrote:A friend of the guy that took second contacted me. The guy that took second, Alex, was told by the folks at Zepplin's they would like to buy his beer if he can make it happen legally. He asked my friend, who then put Alex in contact with me. I explained some of the issues with that (basically you will need to open a brewery) and invited him to the next meeting. I also asked what his beer was for Randy. I will let you know when I hear back.
2nd was a Smoked Scotch Ale. Zepplins has a house beer. If they could get the same people to make his recipe then they could put his beer on tap.

If they want a Smoked Scotch Ale I think we can get them a better recipe though.
It was an oak aged scotch ale, not smoked. I thought it was really good. In fact, I thought it would win. I thought the berliner weisse was the best beer there.

I thought the saison was going to win.

Posted: **Mon Oct 10, 2011 5:24 pm**

tompb wrote:I thought the saison was going to win.

I thought the saison was really good too. He probably didn't have a clever enough name for the judges.

Posted: **Tue Oct 11, 2011 12:48 am**

The Saison was very good, everything was very good. The guy that brewed the saison just started brewing this year...I believe less than 6 months. As far as the name goes, we set the scoring on that category to not be able to burn anyone over a name. The only scores used for that category were 8(not great) 9(good) 10(great). That was it couldn't kill the chances of a great beer with a bland name. I agree the Berlinerweisse was great...I was too busy to try everything, but everything I tried was thumbs up. Thanks again to everyone who made it!

From: daveR <brew-events@crbeernuts.org>
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tompb wrote: I thought the saison was going to win.

I thought the saison was really good too. He probably didn't have a clever enough name for the judges.

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Posted: **Tue Oct 11, 2011 9:33 am**

I thought the event was a success. I will definitely enter again next year.

Posted: **Tue Oct 11, 2011 4:28 pm**

A big thanks to Wayne for all your hard work putting this together as well. I'm glad we made past a bit of a rough start. The event was well thought out and put on with a hitch. The atmosphere was nice with good public participation. I'm looking forward to doing this again next year as well.