We need locations for Bluebonnet judging. We will have sessions on Friday evenings, Saturday mornings and Saturday afternoons starting on 2/10 through 3/4. If you can host one or more sessions, please email Mike and Walter at: [email protected]; [email protected]
Please let us know your name, address, dates and sessions you are able to host. Also, please include beer styles that you are unable to judge because you entered them in the Bluebonnet or just outright hate them.
Registration for the Bluebonnet Brew-Off is open. At this moment there are 424 entries in the system. Some of the Medal categories are 2/3 full, but all have room for additional entries.
Get your entries registered so you don’t lose out due to a medal category being full. You can register your entries at: https://bcoem.bluebonnetbrewoff.org/
The club will pay for shipping, for our current club members, to the Operation Fermentation. We will ship from Eric Morgan’s new homebrew store, NTHBS. Eric will ship via UPS on Wednesday December 28. That means you need to have your entries boxed, prepared for shipping to Eric’s store by Tuesday December 27 at 5pm.
North Texas Homebrew Supply is located at: 17811 Davenport Rd. Suite 11 Dallas, TX 75252 (214) 449-0243
NTHBS will be closed this Saturday the 24th. That means you can drop off you packed entries today, Thursday the 22nd, Friday the 23rd or next Tuesday the 27th.
The deadline for Operation Fermentation shipping is Wednesday January 4 so we are shipping the week before to leave time to deal with problems in shipping and hopefully not have your entries sit in UPS over the weekend.
Good luck with your entries in Operation Fermentation!
We judged the final 2022 Club Only Competition last night. Thanks to John Sutton and Eric Morgan for judging. Special thanks to Eric for letting us judge at North Texas Homebrew Supply (17811 Davenport Rd Suite 11, Dallas, TX 75252).
We had a terrific year with the COC this year. The six competitions all had good turnout. The entries last night had outstanding quality.
Thanks to all that entered and judged this year.
The November COC winners were:
Name
Place
Style
Beer Name
Douglas Hicks
1st
Belgian Blond Ale
Blond Without the E
Jimmy Orkin
2nd
Weissbier
Mouth Breather
Terry Olinger
3rd
Doppelbock
Saboteur
November 2022 COC Winners
Now to the 2022 Brewer Royale winners. The Brewer Royale rewards club members for judging and winner in the COC, winning 1st place in competitions in the Lone Star Circuit and winning in the National Homebrew Competition.
Brewer Royale winners receive a gift certificate to North Texas Homebrew Supply (17811 Davenport Rd Suite 11, Dallas, TX 75252). The first place winner also wins a travelling and keeper trophies presented at the club’s winter party.
Our 2022 Brewer Royale winners are:
Name
Place
Points
Mark Rendon
1st
19
Douglas Hicks
2nd
18
Terry Olinger
3rd
11
2022 Brewer Royale Winners
All the points and styles reset for 2023. The next COC will be in January, due at the January club meeting.
The next external competitions are:
Operation Fermentation, entry closes December 16.
Bluebonnet Brew-off, entry closes January 30.
As always, I look forward to your feedback. If there is anything you want to change in the Brewer Royale for 2023, let the officers know.
Greetings, club members. We have a couple of events this week I wanted to remind you of.
We have a club meeting on Tuesday at Odd Muse in Farmers Branch. They are located at 4488 Spring Valley Rd, Farmers Branch, TX 75244. We will arrive starting at 6:30 and get the meeting going sometime after 7:00. Food is not available at Odd Muse, so please plan accordingly. There is a BBQ place across the parking lot.
Saturday, October 15 at 6:30PM is the Fall/Oktoberfest Party, hosted by yours truly and his frau, Julie. The address is 4100 Camino Dr, Plano, TX 75074. We will be serving bratwurst two ways: smoked and beer boiled w/onions, along with pretzels, German mustard, and beer cheese. Please bring a side, appetizer, or dessert. There will also be a Oktoberfest people’s choice beer competition. Details HERE, along with sign-up.
Coming up on the 15th, we have the NTHBA Fall/Oktoberfest Party. Same as 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 with North Texas Homebrew Supply gift certificate awards of $50, $30, and $20 respectively.
Styles allowed:
Munich Helles (4A)
Festbier (4B)
Kolsch (5B)
German Pils (5D)
Marzen (6A)
Altbier (7B)
Munich Dunkle (8A)
Weissbier (10A)
Dunkle Weisse (10B)
If you are entering a beer for the Oktoberfest/Fall Party, please fill out the form at the link below so we can add it to the taplist. If you have any questions, please contact [email protected]. Good luck!
The September COC was judged last night by John Sutton and Terry Olinger. Special thanks to our judges as they make the COC work. The Winners are:
Place
Name
Beer Name
Style
1st
Marcio Fazzani
New Talent
English Brown Ale
2nd
Douglas Hicks
Keep On Keepin’ On
Biere de Garde
3rd
Mark Rendon
Marktoberfest
Marzen
September COC Winners
The Brewer Royale Spreadsheet has been updated and the overall standings can be viewed here: Overall Standings.
Website Comments Policy Change
We decided to open up the club website to allow comments to Blog posts. Blog posts will be open for comments for 2 weeks after a post is made. If the post generates significant comments, we suggest taking the topic to the club’s forums so we have the discussion in the system that makes searching and commenting better.
The September COC closed registration closes on Monday. Entries are due at the club meeting at the Londoner in Addison. Use the bottle labels from the registration system.
The BCOEM system opens for registration on September 1. The entry window closed on September 13 at the club meeting. 2 bottles are required. Bring your entries to the Club Meeting.
