North Texas Homebrewers Association
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Post from our Competition Coordinator
It looks like the Foam Rangers are having some issues. Their websites for their club and the Dixie Cup are way out of date. BCOEM for the Dixie Cup is scheduled to be up on August 19.
Here are the details for the 2022 Dixie Cup Competition.
There will be a 4 bottle requirement for entries.
800 total entry cap
16 entries per person max
All BJCP categories included
Entries due Sept. 8th,
8th Wonder login in Sept. 10th
Event Oct 22-23
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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:
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
The Brewer Royale statistics have been updated in the Google spreadsheet. You can view the latest standing on the Brewer Royale page in this site: Click me
Medals for the July COC will be handed out at the August club meeting.
The Brewer Royale Rules document was updated to clarify the difference between the Brewer Royale and the COC. You can view the rules document on the same page as the current standings.
Thanks for Nupe Singhal and Mike Grover for judging the July COC tonight. We have winners.
| Place | Brewer | Entry Name | Style | Club |
| 1st | Marcio Fazzani | Ball Rolling 2022 | American IPA | North Texas Homebrewers… |
| 2nd | Terry Olinger | Bell Haus Cider | New World Cider | North Texas Homebrewers… |
| 3rd | Garry Beckham | Golden Pils | German Pils | North Texas Homebrewers… |
Scoresheets can be downloaded from the coc.nthba.org site.
Congratulations to the winners.
The 2022 Limbo Challenge is open for registration. It opened at midnight and already has 109 paid entries. The limit will be 300 paid entries.
So you should reserve your spot in the Limbo today. Go ahead and enter before the competition fills up.
Jimmy