Cedar Rapids Brewing Society

The manhunt begins NOW.

The rules are:

1) You must craft an extraordinary brew using at least one multi-serving box of a breakfast cereal of your choice per 5 gallons of finished product
(i.e. if you do not want to make only 1 gallon and you have a 15 oz box of cereal, you would need to use at least 3 oz of cereal in your recipe).
2) At the designated turn-in you must submit three 12-ounce bottles according to the Club's quarterly competition rules. You must claim the style category and subcategory of your beer upon submission.
3) Along with your sample submission, you must submit your grist and hop schedule, specifying grain and cereal in pounds and hops in ounces; along with a brief explanation of your beer.
4) There will be at least two events associated with this competition: 1) A Turn-in and Judging event; and 2) Pour event at the Beer Nuts Happy Hour.
5) Your brew must participate in both events to qualify for any award.
6) You must register by December 10th (the annual Beer Nuts Party). All we need to know: 1) Your intent to participate; and 2) How many beers you plan to submit; if you submit one and your plan was more than 1, no problem.

PLEASE DO NOT REGISTER NOW - once we have kicked this concept around a bit, I will open a separate registration posting - should be able to do that by or before Oct 1.

Turn in will be at or before the February Club Meeting; judging will occur soon after submission and prior to the pour event.

There will be at least two awards; one for best brew, and a second will be "the people's" favorite. The merits of your beer will be judged against the style/category you select (flavors induced by the cereal is not a negative). Additional points will be added according to metrics that are yet to be determined.

On February 26th, the Cereal Killers pour event will be held in conjunction with the CR Beer Nut Happy Hour, the general public will be allowed to vote for their favorite brew. To support that event, you must bring or provide at least a half gallon of your brew to share with the public.

We still have details to work out, but this is what we know at this time.....post with your thoughts and recommendations.

Sounds like it could be a lot of fun - if nothing else, getting to try what folks come up with!

Question - is there a working definition of what constitutes "breakfast cereal?" Example, does oatmeal count? Grits? Granola? Kashi? Or, are we restricted to classic dry breakfast cereals like Corn Flakes, Rice Crispies, Cheerios, Frosted Flakes, etc.?

wheat chex weiss? Coco-puffs oatmeal stout? fruit loops IPA? hmmm...

The big issue here is going to be preservatives in the breakfast cereal. I imagine the heavily-processed cereals are going to have preservatives in them. We're going to have to search out "organic" versions of cereal.

Great question Tony.

At this point in time, we do not have such a restriction...I will be going through some of the criteria used by other clubs to see if they have already defined those parameters.

However, if a brewer only used oatmeal, cream of wheat, or corn grits as their only augmentation, given that those augmentations are used already in beer (in the form of oatmeal, wheat, flaked corn, etc); I would expect the judges would give very low scores on creativity or originality. The flavor that would come through would not be very unique as say, compared to a Fruiti Peebles Saison.

I am sure the criteria will evolve as a result of these discussions.

tony b wrote:Sounds like it could be a lot of fun - if nothing else, getting to try what folks come up with!

Question - is there a working definition of what constitutes "breakfast cereal?" Example, does oatmeal count? Grits? Granola? Kashi? Or, are we restricted to classic dry breakfast cereals like Corn Flakes, Rice Crispies, Cheerios, Frosted Flakes, etc.?

tony b wrote:Sounds like it could be a lot of fun - if nothing else, getting to try what folks come up with!

Question - is there a working definition of what constitutes "breakfast cereal?" Example, does oatmeal count? Grits? Granola? Kashi? Or, are we restricted to classic dry breakfast cereals like Corn Flakes, Rice Crispies, Cheerios, Frosted Flakes, etc.?

Come on bro. Don't just put quick oats in your beer.

I'm sorry, but anyone who successfully mashes in "Quisp" Cereal wins by deafult, IHMO...

Fred

If you can find any, I bet Quisp would make a good Miller Lite!

I would think the cereal you use needs to be detected in the flavor if not a predominant flavor. If it tastes like a regular beer with nothing from the cereal, I don't think you will do well in this comp. Oatmeal and similar products are probably not going to seem any different than any regular beer. I use Quaker Oats in a lot of my beers including IPAs and Pale Ales to body them up when I go really dry. No cereal taste though.

Yeah but dry hopping with Captain Crunch is too easy.. Grape Nuts is basically just roasted malted barley. This is going to be a hard one to do correctly.

Is this a legal adjunct?

Calling pop tarts cereal would be a stretch.

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carrisr wrote:Calling pop tarts cereal would be a stretch.

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Man, is this a tough crowd to please...

And, the rule is one must use at least one multi-serving box of breakfast cereal.

daryl wrote:And, the rule is one must use at least one multi-serving box of breakfast cereal.

At least 10 oz? Need a non-arbitrary number.