Cedar Rapids Brewing Society

Posted: **Sat Mar 06, 2010 6:39 pm**

I'm sure most of you have already head about this, but in case you haven't, Granite City is having a homebrew competion from April 11-25th. Details can be found at http://www.gcfb.net/mugclub/news_homebrewcontest.html.

Randy

Posted: **Mon May 17, 2010 10:32 am**

Holy Shit -- I won something!

My Munich Helles took 1st place in the Light Lagers category. Looks like I'll be drinking a lot of Granite City beer in the next year...

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Granite-C ... 2347471856

Posted: **Mon May 17, 2010 10:40 am**

That’s awesome. Congrats. You will have to bring some of the winning beer to the brew club meeting for sampling if you have any left.

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Posted: **Mon May 17, 2010 10:52 am**

Very nice! Congratulations!

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:46 AM, bkanderson <brew-events@crbeernuts.org (brew-events@crbeernuts.org)> wrote:

That’s awesome. Congrats. You will have to bring some of the winning beer to the brew club meeting for sampling if you have any left.

Brian Anderson

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Posted: **Mon May 17, 2010 11:01 am**

Lee,
Awesome!!! See I told you that was some kick ass beer! Now the question is, if they brew it will they be able to come close to yours? If so, it will be far and away the best beer they've ever had on tap.
Randy

Posted: **Mon May 17, 2010 11:03 am**

DrPaulsen wrote:Holy Shit -- I won something!

My Munich Helles took 1st place in the Light Lagers category. Looks like I'll be drinking a lot of Granite City beer in the next year...

Awesome! Congrats!

Posted: **Mon May 17, 2010 11:16 am**

carrisr wrote:Lee,
Awesome!!! See I told you that was some kick ass beer! Now the question is, if they brew it will they be able to come close to yours? If so, it will be far and away the best beer they've ever had on tap.
Randy

They won't be brewing my beer. I won one of their "subcategories", but did not take Best In Show. They're going to be making an American Barley Wine as their Summer Seasonal, although their brewmaster admitted he didn't think it could be done in time so it might become a Winter Seasonal.

I'll bring a bottle of it to the meeting this week. If it weren't such a pain in the ass to brew (gigantic yeast starter), I would have made 5 gallons for the Beerfest last weekend.

Posted: **Mon May 17, 2010 11:32 am**

Thats awesome, I was invited out to judge for that comp and really wanted to attend that one since they were close by, and I do love the DM area for great beer. Plus they paid for you travel..which is rare.

Congrats again, I was keeping up with the judging and they have I believe almost 400 entries so you were up against a decent size force.

Looking forward to that barleywine they will be brewing

From: DrPaulsen [mailto:brew-events@crbeernuts.org]
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 11:32 AM
To: brew-events@crbeernuts.org
Subject: Re: Granite City Homebrew competition

Holy Shit -- I won something!

My Munich Helles took 1st place in the Light Lagers category. Looks like I'll be drinking a lot of Granite City beer in the next year...

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Granite-City-Food-Brewery/86552939404?v=app_2347471856

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Posted: **Mon May 17, 2010 3:54 pm**

Looks like your sore loser took a 3rd as well Lee! Great job!

Posted: **Mon May 17, 2010 6:33 pm**

Are these results posted somewhere? The Granite City page hasn't been updated yet.

Posted: **Mon May 17, 2010 6:52 pm**

The link in the 2nd post by Lee has the results.

Posted: **Mon May 17, 2010 7:52 pm**

Sorry, I saw it was facebook and I'm not on there. Most stuff I get links to it won't let me see unless I sign up. That one worked though.

It looks like it ended up being an interesting comp. I can't believe GC is going to brew a barley wine. That should be interesting to say the least.

Posted: **Tue May 18, 2010 11:42 am**

tompb wrote:Looks like your sore loser took a 3rd as well Lee! Great job!

Thanks, but this fact has me doubting the competition a bit. I find the beer nearly undrinkable due to an astringent bitterness in the aftertaste. Maybe that only docked it a couple of points in the judges eyes. Too bad feedback won't be available. I'll bring a bottle of the Sore Loser to this week's meeting, in addition to the Helles, and let you guys decide.

Posted: **Tue May 18, 2010 12:02 pm**

I don’t mean to ruin the mood of your entry but if your in doubt I often have to remind confused contestants that you can win with a rather weak beer assuming its better than the rest. You don’t have to have a great beer to win, just hope for lots of bad beer your up against .. haha.

Either way you usually just get a medal.. at least you get lots of free beer.

From: DrPaulsen [mailto:brew-events@crbeernuts.org]
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 12:42 PM
To: brew-events@crbeernuts.org
Subject: Re: Granite City Homebrew competition

tompb wrote:
Looks like your sore loser took a 3rd as well Lee! Great job!

Thanks, but this fact has me doubting the competition a bit. I find the beer nearly undrinkable due to an astringent bitterness in the aftertaste. Maybe that only docked it a couple of points in the judges eyes. Too bad feedback won't be available. I'll bring a bottle of the Sore Loser to this week's meeting, in addition to the Helles, and let you guys decide.

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