The Labor of Love entry period is open now and closes on October 10th. If you enter, be prepared to pour 2 gallons of each entry beer. You are welcome to bring any other beers you might want to pour for folks. There will be a People’s Choice competition for the beers poured at the event.
We will organize the NTHBA folks together at the Awards/People’s Choice event.
The Labor of Love events in the past have been really fun. Talk to any of the officers if you have questions or ideas.
Just a quick note to let you know that someone left behind a 903 brewers beer glass. If it’s yours, please let me know so we can arrange to get it back to you
This is your last opportunity to buy your raffle tickets online. Online sales will close at 5PM today, and after that, tickets will only be sold at the Oktoberfest party on Saturday!!
Electric boil kettle and controller. There will be 3 opportunities to buy tickets.
The drawing will be held on September 28th at the NTHBA Oktoberfest party where the system will be available to take home. If you cannot make the party, the system will be available at North Texas Homebrew Supply and must be picked up by October 12.
Guten tag, NTHBA! This Saturday, 28 September, Marcio and Carine Fazzani, our esteemed club president and his wife, will be hosting the club Oktoberfest Party at their home in Wylie. Please come out for a great time anytime after 6PM.
Marcio and Carine will be serving bratwurst and pork ribs with sauerkraut. Please bring a side dish, appetizer, or dessert, along with your favorite beverage. Ideally, that includes your homebrew to share.
The Fazzani’s home is located at 1539 Stellar Truth Wy, Wylie, TX 75098. Link to map HERE.
As always, you can reach out to our socials director at [email protected] for more information.
This month’s COC had a good turn out with 9 entries, representing 8 different styles, the quality of all beers showcased the skill of the club members.
After lining up the mini-BOS, the judges, Jason Garland, Walter Hodges, Terry Olinger and the esteemed Bill Lawrence selected Jimmy Orkin’s Belgian Dubbel for the Bronze, Steve Littel’s Märzen for the Silver and this month’s Gold goes to James “Smitty” Smith for his German Pils.
You can see the results over at coc.nthba.org and download your score sheet.
Thanks to North Texas Homebrew Supply (now open on Mondays) for allowing us to use their store for few hours and Steve Littel for staying late.
Reminder you collect Brewer Royale points and a $10 gift card for being a COC judge.
Thanks again to all who entered, the next COC will be in September, registration will open November 1st and close the day of the November club meeting (COC takes place on the odd numbered months).
Come one, came all to the September brewday, this Saturday September 21! We will get started around 9AM. Lunch will be provided. The brewday is being hosted at Smitty’s house in Plano. Address HERE. I am brewing a Trappist Single and there will be another brewer brewing a Cream Ale.
If you are coming, please bring some of your homebrew to share. Looking forward to seeing you on Saturday. If you have any questions, please reach out to [email protected].
Let’s talk about Labor of Love. I’ll discuss the history below but to get started I will discuss this year’s (actually next month’s) Labor of Love.
There will be a Labor of Love Homebrew Competition and Festival in October this year. Labor of Love will be hosted at Autonomous Society (Dean Weaver’s place) in the Cedars this year.
Labor of Love’s website is at: https://lolcomp.org/ Look at the site for Competition and Festival information.
What’s Happening
Date
Entrant Registration
September 15 – October 10
Entry Registration
September 22 – October 10
Event Festival and Awards
October 19
Limits of the Competition
Limit
Count
Max Entries in the Competition
72
Max Entries per Individual or Team
2
Max Individuals or Teams in the Competition
36
Spaces for 10×10 pop up canopies A space will be shared by two teams, find a friend
18
The competition is judged Best of Show style. There will be five Medal categories. The styles in the medal categories will be determined by the styles entered. There will be a Best of Show entry chosen from the Medal Category winners.
The Festival will run from Noon to 5pm on October 19. There will be an Eventbrite event to buy your tickets to the festival. Entering the competition, having your entries judged and pouring at least 2 gallons of your entries gets you free access to the festival.
The key in the above paragraph is to enter the competition, you must pour at least 2 gallons of each of your entries at the Festival. Its a celebration of your homebrew. You are welcome to pour more beers than you entered, in fact you are encouraged to pour more. There will be a peoples choice from all the beers poured at the festival.
I suggest the NTHBA members share pop up canopy space or adjacent spaces. We are the hosting Homebrew Club.
If you have any questions, contact Jimmy or one of the officers.
Now a bit of history about Labor of Love. LoL started back in 2012 or so as a Homebrew Exhibition at Deep Ellum Brewing Co. with NTHBA only beer. There was no contest initially.
The second year started the contest and all homebrew clubs, individuals and teams were invited. Melinda Beyer has one of the First place awards from the first contest. Is was a spray painted cardboard case box.
The last year was 2019. It had become a huge event with music. Sadly Covid ended LoL. But we are bringing it back!
The Cap & Hare Homebrew Club, our friends on the west side of the Metroplex, have invited the NTHBA to their Big Brew and Hog Roast event. Cap & Hare has the components to make a very large brew. They have these big brew events where they make wort in a huge mash tun and multiple kettles. It is similar to Wayne’s Big Rig system except bigger.
They are having a Big Brew on Saturday October 26th. The event will be at Mark McCurdy’s house in Grapevine, MAP. It is only 20 minutes from Carrollton. The Wort will be for a Kölsch. You can purchase shares of wort. You will just need to bring a container to take your wort home in.
To reserve your share of the Kölsch wort, use this google spreadsheet: Reserve Share.
Wait, that is not all! C&H is also doing a hog roast that Saturday as well. The NTHBA is picking up the cost for our members share of the pig roast. You still need to bring a side of some sort. To track the side dishes of what folks are bringing, please update this spreadsheet: Side Dishes.
This will be a great event for hanging out with the Cap & Hare folks, talking about and sharing some homebrew. If you are coming out, please email Jimmy at [email protected] so I can keep a list of folks that are going.
You will see several posts from me today but they are separate topics.
The Denton County Homebrewers Guild is hosting their own homebrew competition called The Texas Redcoat Challenge. The DCHG is asking for help in judging the competition. Their members have helped us with Limbo, we should help them with Redcoat. The Redcoat is British beers with a couple of Cider and Mead categories.
Our judging sessions will be at North Texas Homebrew Supply on Saturday, October 5 with morning and afternoon sessions. Please sign up on their BCOEM system at this link: https://entries.texasredcoat.com/ and indicate your availability. Medal Categories will be assigned when the judges are known and what they can judge. This is the same as Limbo and Bluebonnet. Remember to bring a laptop as this will be electronic scoresheets.
The NTHBA has become an impressive Beer Judging organization, let’s give the Redcoat a big push!
