After submitting six beers to the New England Regional Homebrew Competition, I was thinking we had a good chance to place in one of the categories. We didn’t place in any of the categories.
The competition was pretty tough this year. There were over 400 entries to the competition this year and it has been growing in size year over year.
At this point, there’s nothing left to do but to wait for the score sheets and hopefully glean some helpful information from the notes.
Next competition is the Boston Homebrew Competition which should be held in late February or early March.
Señor Brew™
Better luck next time!
Lauren
contests really really aggravate me. They have two judges for the Sam Adams contests (those are the only contests that i’ve ever entered), and the Judges will contradict each other. FOR STYLE TO SWEET/FOR STYLE TO DRY, things like that. A beer that you thought was just ok, scores a 42, and doesn’t even place, and another beer that you thought was flat out awsome scores a 32, and takes second in catagory.
After 2 years of this, I take it with a grain of salt, some people dig what your throwing down, some don’t, what the hell are you gonna do? Don’t let it stress you out.