Registration for the July COC is underway. Go to https://coc.nthba.org to register your July COC entry. The entry deadline is the club meeting next Tuesday the 12th. Don’t miss your chance to entry this month’s COC.
July COC (Club only Competition)
Alamo City Cerveza Fest Shipping
The club will pay for shipping, for our current club members, to the ACCF. We will ship from Eric Morgans new homebrew store, NTHBS. Eric will ship via UPS on Wednesday July 19. That means you need to have your entries boxed, prepared for shipping to Eric’s store by Tuesday July 18 at 5pm.
North Texas Homebrew Supply is located at:
17811 Davenport Rd.
Suite 11
Dallas, TX 75252
(214) 449-0243
NTHBS will be open Tuesdays through Saturdays starting July 16th. That means you can drop off ACCF entries on Saturday July 16 or Tuesday July 19.
The deadline for ACCF shipping is July 29 so we are shipping the week before to leave time to deal with problems in shipping.
Good luck with your entries in the ACCF!
Jimmy
July 2022 Competitions Newsletter Contribution
An update on the Club Shirts
On the T-Shirts, I have the shirts at my house. We are short one Men’s medium T and have an extra Ladies Large. Good news is we have the right sizes for all surveyed shirts.
On the Button shirts, the shirts where made with Black shirts instead of the Charcoal Gray we had negotiated. Not to worry, Inman Promotional is remaking the shirts in the correct Charcoal Gray. I am not sure when they will be ready.
My current plan is to start distribution of shirts at the July club meeting and Walter’s Brewday on July 9. You need to be current with your membership to get a free shirt. If you ordered additional T-Shirts or a Button shirt, you can pay us with: Cash, Check or PayPal.
I doubt the button shirts will ready for the club meeting.
Additional T-Shirts are $13 each and the Button Shirts are $35 each.
The Brewer Royale Program
I cannot find results for the KGB’s BBBB competition. If any knows who won, please let me know.
We have a rules change for the COC. Since we are having very good turnout for the Club only Competitions this year, I changed the bottle count per entry to 2. This will allow me to schedule two teams of judges and reduce the load from a single team of judges. So 2 BOTTLES per entry going forward.
I have a manual Google Spreadsheet to track all points. That spreadsheet can be viewed at this link: Spreadsheet Link. When I get past the Club Website work, I want to write a program to track the Brewer Royale points.
The Brewer Royale Rules are located at this link: Rules Link.
Here are the Brewer Royale standings which include the May COC and the Lunar Rendezbrew.
| Name | Total Points |
| Mark Rendon | 14 |
| Douglas Hicks | 9 |
| Jimmy Orkin | 6 |
| Terry Olinger | 5 |
| Garry Beckham | 3 |
| Matt Parulis | 3 |
| James Smith | 3 |
| Walter Hodges | 3 |
| Bill Lawrence | 2 |
| BRBC | 1 |
| Fred David | 1 |
| Richard Harris | 1 |
| Eric Morgan | 1 |
The July entry period for the COC in July will be from July 1 until July 12 at the Club Meeting! Use this site to register your entries: https://coc.nthba.org
Get your July entries registered and print the bottle labels and Entry Sheet from the system. The drop off location will be the club meeting at Bitter Sisters Brewery at our Club meeting there. Find me. Remember we need 2 bottles going forward.
I will put out a call for judges after the club meeting so be ready to respond if you want to judge and get your Brewer Royale points.
The Limbo Challenge
We have a Director for the 2022 Limbo Challenge. Eric Morgan will be our Director. Eric can be reached with this forwarding email address: [email protected]. Look for email from Eric about meetings to plan this year’s competition.
Judging will be at Eric Morgan’s new store.
There is time for 1 or 2 more brews for the Limbo so get brewing.
Dates for the Limbo:
Registration: July 11-28
Login: July 30
Judging: August 5-7, (12-14 if needed)
Awards: August 27
New NTHBA Website
The new website is up. I still need to find a Gallery Plugin to display the great picture we have been collecting.
I am also working on PHPBB for the forums. I have been distracted lately with Homebrew Con and my daughter moving into her own place. I hope to have PHPBB ready by the time you read this article.
My plan is to give all current and new members a login ID that will work with both WordPress and PHPBB. You will then be able to subscribe to notifications of new WordPress posts and be able to make posts in the PHPBB system.
I still need to provide training to the Officers on WordPress and PHPBB.
Give me Feedback
I want your feedback. Please take some time at any and all club event to talk to me about what you want from me as your Competition Coordinator. You can also write to me at: [email protected].
Brew Strong!
Jimmy
Sir William’s – Bursting Beer Can
I bought some local commercial beer today since I have not brewed in awhile. One of the brews was Hop and Sting Brewing Co. Sir William. This was a beer brewed by the previous owners of their building, Grapevine Brewery. I guess H&S has rights to the name and recipe.
I bought a six pack from Total Wine in Lewisville. Got it home and before I could get it in my refrigerator, a can burst. I am guessing the beer was not completely fermented. Another option is Hop Creep but don’t think an English Brown would be dry hopped.
Forum Discussion here: https://nthba.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3.
Thoughts from Homebrew Con (NHC) 2022
Homebrew Con was in Pittsburgh this year. I am writing this on Sunday morning after the event. Mike Grover and I came up on Sunday before the event. Matt Parulis came up on Wednesday.
The seminars were ok but did not have the normal advanced topics I would attend in the past. I heard the attendee count was about 1500. The Vendor area was about 25% the size as normal.
It seems that we are getting past Covid-19. Perhaps more people will attend in 2023 when Homebrew Con is in San Diego. San Diego is a great beer town and easy to spend a week visiting breweries and brewpubs.
We visited about 15 different breweries, brewpubs and bars. Always in search of good Craft Beer. We found lots of it.
Talk to Mike, Matt or me about Homebrew Con. You might be interested on going to a future event.
The picture on this post is from the top of the Duquesne Incline.
2022 Lunar Redezbrew Winners
Congratulations to our members who won awards at the Lunar Redezbrew.
Walter Hodges – 2nd for Hutton Branch Ordinary Bitter
Mark Rendon – HM for Scottish Export
Mark Rendon – 2nd for American Brown Ale
Walter Hodges – 1st for Hutton Branch Wheatwine
Doug Hicks – 1st for The Keeper (Beir de Garde)
Discussion coming soon in our new Forum!