Author: John Sutton

We had 9 excellent entries for the last COC of the year and when I say excellent I mean excellent with a majority of the scores in the 40’s. But the judges were able to sort out the medal winners with the gold going to David Bierschenk with a English Mild, the silver went to Doug Hicks with his Scottish Heavy and the bronze went to Marcio Fazzani with a Imperial Stout.

Thanks to Harry Anderson, Amanda Garland, James “Smitty” Smith and Terry Olinger for judging these excellent beers.

Thanks to North Texas Homebrew Supply for allowing us to use their store for few hours and Terry Olinger for staying late.

Reminder you collect Brewer Royale points for being a COC judge.

Thanks again to all who entered, the first COC of 2024 will be in January, registration will open January 1st and close the day of the January club meeting (COC takes place on the odd numbered months).

Cheers John,

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Reminder, the November Club Only Competition (COC) registration closes this Tuesday, November 14th at 5pm and your entries of 2 bottles need to be turned in at the club meeting at North Texas Home Brew Supply this Tuesday evening. If you can’t make the meeting, please reach out to me and we can make other arrangements.

You can register your entry and print off labels at coc.nthba.org

Full Brewer Royale / COC rules can be found at nthba.org/brewer-royale

And for anyone who did not enter, please consider being a judge, no experience needed, and best of all you get to drink free beer (you can register on the COC site)

Any questions, ping me at [email protected]

The Houston area Mashtronauts club is hosting a heads up, bracket style inter-club competition next month.

The rules are straight forward, each club can enter 3 beers (and an optional 4th if one bottle ends up broken) . Each beer will be labeled as Round 1, Round 2, Round 3 and judged against another club’s Round 1, Round 2, Round 3 bottles. You can think of it as mini-best of show judging.

The winning beer from each round will move forward.

Since this is a mini-best of show style judging no score sheets are given, But since the event will be live stream you can hear the judge’s comments in real time !

Anyone interested in submitting a beer, ping me and if possible bring your entry to the club meeting at ODD MUSE on Tuesday October 10th (don;t bring the beer into the tap room though). You will need to include the style as well.

If we get more then 3 entries we will need to figure out a way to choose just three; coin toss, arm wrestling, pistol duel, I’m open to suggestions. If someone has two entries they would like to enter just bring them both and will decide which one (or both) to enter.

Remember you are representing the club so lets find those 40+ point entries that I know everyone can brew and enter those.

Any questions, ping me at [email protected]

For the penultimate COC of ’23 the competition was close with 10 entries in 10 different styles. After much discussion the judges, Amanda Garland, James “Smitty” Smith, David Jones and the esteemed Bill Lawrence, selected Heath Garth and his Marzen for the Bronze, Steve Littel picked up the Silver for his Wesissbier, and Marcio Fazzani took home the Gold with his Catharina Sour.

You can see the results over at coc.nthba.org and download your score sheet.

Thanks to North Texas Homebrew Supply for allowing us to use their store for few hours and Terry Olinger for staying late.

Reminder you collect Brewer Royale points for being a COC judge.

Thanks again to all who entered, the last COC of the year will be in November, registration will open November 1st and close the day of the November club meeting (COC takes place on the odd numbered months).

Cheers John,

[email protected]

Reminder, the September Club Only Competition (COC) registration closes this Tuesday, September 12th at 5pm and your entries of 2 bottles need to be turned in at the club meeting at North Texas Home Brew Supply this Tuesday evening. If you can’t make the meeting, please reach out to me and we can make other arrangements.

You can register your entry and print off labels at coc.nthba.org

Full Brewer Royale / COC rules can be found at nthba.org/brewer-royale

And for anyone who did not enter, please consider being a judge, no experience needed, and best of all you get to drink free beer (you can register on the COC site)

Any questions, ping me at [email protected]

This is a friendly reminder that the registration period for the September COC is open now. You can register at https://coc.nthba.org.

Registration closes at 5:00pm on Sept 12th, the day of the club meeting at North Texas Homebrew Supply. Entries are due at the club meeting unless prior arrangements are made.

Any questions ping me at [email protected]

Cheers and good luck!

Last night Harry Anderson, Jason Garland, David Bierschenk and Terry Olinger judged nine very good beers that spanned nine different styles and after spirted discussions the gold went to Doug Hicks with his Berliner Weisse, the sliver went to Rob Edger with his Red IPA, and a bronze was awarded to Mark Rendon for his American Lager.

You can see the results over at coc.nthba.org and download your score sheet.

Thanks to North Texas Homebrew Supply for allowing us their store for few hours.

Reminder you collect Brewer Royale points for being a COC judge.

Thanks again to all who entered, the next COC will be in September, registration will open September 1st and close the day of the September club meeting (COC takes place on the odd numbered months).

Cheers !

Reminder, the July Club Only Competition (COC) registration closes this Tuesday, July 11th at 5pm and your entries of 2 bottles need to be turned in at the club meeting at North Texas Home Brew Supply this Tuesday evening. If you can’t make the meeting, please reach out to me and we can make other arrangements.

You can register your entry and print off labels at coc.nthba.org

Full Brewer Royale / COC rules can be found at nthba.org/brewer-royale

And for anyone who did not enter, please consider being a judge, no experience needed, and best of all you get to drink free beer (you can register on the COC site)

Any questions, ping me at [email protected]

Are Jimmy Orkin in first place with a Kellerbier appropriately name Mark Rendon as second place goes to the real Mark Rendon with his Pre-Prohibition Porter and third place was awarded to James “Smitty” Smith with this Pale Ale.

Thanks again to Jason Garland, Matt Parulis Mike Grover, and Walter Hodges for judging and North Texas Homebrew Supply for allowing us their store for few hours.

Reminder you collect Brewer Royale points for being a COC judge.

You can see the results over at coc.nthba.org and download your score sheet.

Thanks again to all who entered, the next COC will be in July, registration will open July 1st and close the day of the July club meeting (COC takes place on the odd numbered months)

Cheers !

Before heading out to a National Homebrew event at North Texas Home Brew Supply or 3 Nations Brewing this Saturday, as a reminder, the May Club Only Competition (COC) registration closes this Tuesday, May 9th at 5pm and your entries of 2 bottles need to be turned in at the club meeting at North Texas Home Brew Supply Tuesday evening. If you can’t make the meeting, please reach out to me and we can make other arrangements.

You can register your entry and print off labels at coc.nthba.org

Full Brewer Royale / COC rules can be found at nthba.org/brewer-royale

And for anyone who did not enter, please consider being a judge, no experience needed, and best of all you get to drink free beer (you can register on the COC site)

Any questions, ping me at [email protected]