Blog

Posted on

Fall Party and Peoples Choice Octoberfest Competition

We will be holding our fall party on October 15th this year and our theme will again be Octoberfest. As we did last year we will be holding a peoples choice competition for German / Octoberfest style beers at the party. Everyone will vote for their favorite beers and prizes will be awarded for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place.

Beer Styles for People’s Choice Octoberfest Competition

  • Munich Helles (4A)
  • Festbier (4B)
  • Kolsch (5B)
  • German Pils (5D)
  • Marzen (6A)
  • Altbier (7B)
  • Munich Dunkle (8A)
  • Weissbier (10A)
  • Dunkle Weisse (10B)

We still have a little over 2 months before the party so plenty of time to get something brewed, if you don’t already have something going already. The party will be held at James Smith’s house in Plano, and we will have arrangements for storing and dispensing from kegs. If you don’t keg you can bring a few bottles or a growler of your beer to serve.

Mark your calendar, get brewing your favorite german beer, and good luck!!

Prost!

Posted on

Limbo Judging – Final Weekend

We will finish the Limbo Challenge Judging this weekend and need your help. There are five medal categories remaining and none have more than 16 entries. The remaining categories will need two judge teams but the teams will only have about 8 entries each, Easy Peasy.

Please register in BCOEM if you have not already and/or set your availability for this weekend.

The remaining medal categories are:
55 German & Belgian Wheat
56 British Bitter & Pale
57 British Brown
60 Belgian Ale
62 Wild Sour Smoked & Woody

Judging will be at Mike Grover’s house:
1939 Castille Dr. Carrollton
TX 75007

Sessions are:
08/12a Mike Grover’s House Friday 7pm
08/13a Mike Grover’s House Saturday 9am
08/13b Mike Grover’s House Saturday 1pm
08/14a Mike Grover’s House Sunday 9am if needed
08/14b Mike Grover’s House Sunday 1pm if needed

Lunch will be provided.

Posted on

Club Shirts

Most members have received their shirts, however, we have quite a few folks who have not. Any shirts not picked up by the end of the month will go into the first come first served pile. Club shirts will be available for pick up at the Limbo judging this weekend. They will also be available at the Limbo awards ceremony. If you cannot make it to either of these events, contact Walter at [email protected] and make arrangements to get your shirt.

Posted on

Club Meeting Tonight!

Greetings NTHBA. Tonight starting at 7:00, we have our monthly club meeting. Please feel free to arrive between 6:00 – 6:30 before we kick off the meeting. This month, we are pleased to be hosted by our newest homebrew store, North Dallas Homebrew Supply. Eric Morgan is the proprietor. They are located at 17811 Davenport Rd Suite 11, Dallas, TX 75252. Here is the map link: https://goo.gl/maps/6oBJHm2cfos8yyUUA

This is a BYOB meeting, so bring your favorite homebrew or commercial beer to share and a chair would also be advisable as provided seating will be limited. Food will not be available, so plan accordingly to eat ahead of time or bring something. Also, bring some money for the raffle and if you need to renew your membership, we can process it at that time. See you tonight!

Cheers,
Smitty

Posted on

Limbo Judging Status

From the picture above it looks like a Hack-a-thon. It is the judges entering their comments electronically into the BCOEM system.

We got through 9 of 14 tables this weekend at Mike Grover’s house.

Thanks to all the judges, new and experienced, and Mike. I think we had a great start.

That leaves us with 5 table to judge next weekend. Here are the remaining tables:
55 German & Belgian Wheat
56 British Bitter & Pale
57 British Brown
60 Belgian Ale
62 Wild Sour Smoked & Woody

Please come out next weekend finish out the remaining tables. The entry counts for the remaining tables range from 13 to 16 entries. We need two teams from each table but these are not not large tables.

You will hear more about Limbo at the club meeting on Tuesday.

Posted on

Limbo Judging Starts tonight at Mike’s

This is a reminder that the 2022 Limbo Challenge judging starts tonight at Mike Grover’s house.

This is a request for judges for the Limbo Challenge judging this weekend. Please come out and support our competition. With a good turnout this weekend, we can probably finish in one weekend.

You need no judging experience. We will pair you with a skilled judge. Judging beer will help you brew better beer by teaching you how to evaluate what you brew.
We will have electronic or paper score sheets. We encourage you to use electronic sheets that require you to bring a wifi laptop or tablet. Wifi will be provided. Paper score sheets are available as well.

Please register yourself as a judge on the BCOEM system located here. You will use this userid to access the scoring system. Also please update your availability in BCOEM. Don’t worry if you don’t register in advance, we can add you when you arrive.

Sessions:
08/05a Mike Grover’s House Friday 7pm
08/06a Mike Grover’s House Saturday 9am
08/06b Mike Grover’s House Saturday 1pm
08/07a Mike Grover’s House Sunday 9am
08/07b Mike Grover’s House Sunday 1pm

Mike’s address is:
1939 Castille Dr.
Carrollton, TX 75007

Lunch will be provided.

Thanks for your support!

Eric Morgan, Limbo Director
Jimmy Orkin, Data Guy

Posted on

Labor of Love 2022 edition

The Labor of Love Homebrew Competition sponsored by Craft and Growler is back Labor Day Weekend. The competition is limited to 50 entries at this point. Competition entry is free. The overall winner will get their recipe brewed at C&G.

There will be a Homebrew tasting that requires joining the Craft and Growler club. There will be a homebrew Peoples Choice competition as part of the tasting. All entries in LOL Competition will be available for sampling. More details to come.

The Event is September 3rd from 2p to 7p at Craft and Growler.

If the LOL competition fills, your can still be apart of the Peoples Choice competition.

LOL registration is open now at: https://lolcomp.org

The NTHBA is assisting with this competition.

Posted on

Limbo Challenge Login

The entry period for the Limbo Challenge has closed. We have 246 paid entries.


Login will occur in 2 days, Saturday the 30th, at North Texas Homebrew Supply. We will need help with Login. We will start at 9am. You can bring your entries directly to Login but they must be at NTHBS by 10am. Bring your entries and help with login.
North Texas Homebrew Supply is located at:
17811 Davenport Rd., Suite #11
Dallas, TX 75252

Judging: We start judging on Friday evening, the 6th, at 6:30p. We need all our judges to help out. If you are not experienced, we still need you. We will pair you with an experienced judge who will teach you about beer judging. It is actually a lot of fun. We are using electronic scoresheets so you will need to bring a laptop or a tablet with a keyboard to enter your comments in the scoresheet. If you do not have a wifi capable device, no worries, I can print paper scoresheets for you.

Please go ahead and register yourself as a judge in the BCOEM system (https://limbocomp.org/bcoem). Either register yourself as a judge or update your account to say you are a judge. In that process, please select the sessions that you are available to judge. This will make my job easier when we assign you to a table to be judged.
There will be:

  • One session on Friday the 5th starting about 6:30pm
  • Two sessions on Saturday the 6th, 9am and 1pm
  • Two sessions on Sunday the 7th, 10am and 2pm

We will work on the next weekend depending on how much we get done in the first weekend.Right now all Tables are assigned to Friday the 5th. The tables will get assigned to other sessions when we see judge availability.
If you do not register as a judge beforehand, we can always assign you to a table when you arrive.

Please let me know if you have any issues or questions. You can email me at [email protected]
Thanks for your support,Jimmy Orkin and Eric Morgan