There is a new homebrewer community and a new type of brewing competition gaining momentum. If you haven’t heard of it, its the BrewUnited Challenge!

Formerly BrewDad.com, BrewUnited.Com has been relaunched with an enriched home brewing community slant. There’s recipes, forums and articles/blog style posts. As part of the relaunch, there is a very nifty competition with a format twist lined up for this fall.

This competition restricts the brewer to approximately 12 different styles of beer. Dived into three subcategories: Malty, Balanced and Bitter. You can chose only one from each category if you want to do multiple entries.

Brewing each beer is pretty easier with the exception of one hitch. They have also restricted the ingredient choices. Only four malts and six hop varieties are available. Your are free to go crazy with the yeast choice. You must use only two of the hops available, and you must use ALL the malts provided to at least 1% of the grist. You can however modify the malts through roasting, toasting, bleaching or nuclear fusion (maybe).

Its a pretty interesting idea. It certainly will stretch your abilities as a brewer to make it all work. Some of the styles pose interesting challenges. Like a brewing a Kolsch with some crystal 60L in it. Or brewing an English Brown Ale with no chocolate or dark malt. (or EKG, my favorite English hop).

We chat it up in the video about the unique challenges, due dates and the nifty prizes they have lined up. Space is limited so get on board soon if you want give it a try.

Check them out and let us know what you think.

BREW ON!
BREW UNTIED!!!