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I entered my first homebrew competition today under "The Brewing Network." It wasn't an official BJCP competition. It was a "people's choice" competition in which brewers entered a five gallon keg or bottle equivalent at the Lee's Summit, MO Oktoberfest. There were about 100 people that paid $15 to sample about 50 homebrews in the biergarten. I had a lot of good feedback but in a popularity contest its hard to tell whether people liked the beer or were just trying to be nice or were just happy to be drinking beer. I brewed an Oktoberfest recipe based on one from an old Can You Brew It episode (*Edit* Jamil Show episode from 2006) in which Doc stepped in for Jamil. I used Wyeast 2112 California Lager yeast even though most of the information online said it was too fruity of a profile to use on an Oktoberfest. In fact, the only favorable post for this yeast was from Klickitat Jim on the AHA forum and that was enough to persuade me to use the Cal lager strain. The beer had no fruitiness that I could detect and I had many repeat customers. There are prizes for the top three beers which will be announced Monday. I'd like to insert a goofy photo here on the forum but I'm not sure how to do it.

I built the jockey box last week and was able to serve to festival goers at 10 psi through 50' of SS coil and a Perlick. The hop grenade was the finishing touch. The "people's choice competition was pretty fun. Got lots of feedback but not as useful as I would probably have got from a BJCP event. Anyway, cheers!





http://s1374.photobucket.com/user/rbs90 ... o.jpg.html

Could you make that picture a little bigger? It's hard to make out the detail...

Yeah, I know. I've never posted a pic here on the BN forum and opened a Photo Bucket account just to post so I'm open to any tips. It's fine on Tapatalk app but ridiculous on the PC.

*Edit* cropped it but now I have the feeling it's just as big but with more of my goofy ass in focus.

I won 1st place overall as The Brewing Network! I won a $100 gift card to the LHBS and represented the well!

There are probably better/easier ways, but I'll open it in Powerpoint, resize it, save as picture before uploading.