Tooting of horns

[mellymell]

Our Christmas Ale won 2nd place in category 21b (Christmas/Winter Specialty Spiced Beer) at Peach State Brew Off a couple of weeks ago. The results were finally posted today. Rocket City Brewers swept that category, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. It's the first time we've won anything. RCB came in second overall in the competition (a little less than 20 points behind Chicken City Ale Raisers from Gainesville, GA). Also, one of our members won best in show with a Belgian Specialty Ale (I'm not sure what exactly).

Comments

[turbopunk.livejournal.com]

wow, congrats.

[mellymell.livejournal.com]

thanks :]

[baka-san.livejournal.com]

cool. is that the same stuff you had a couple of years ago?

[mellymell.livejournal.com]

Nope, that would be the stuff from this year, which you haven't gotten yet. Christmas in April is still Christmas right? At this point we might as well just hang onto it until you're down here for the wedding.

[baka-san.livejournal.com]

mmmm. sounds good.

[rubenonrye.livejournal.com]

It's actually close to the same recipe, with some cloves added and a slightly different malt bill.

PSBO info is here if you care. And no, that's not what you think it is under the guy's coat...

[beenabutterfly.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Good job!

[mellymell.livejournal.com]

thanks :]

although, to be fair, and I meant to include this in the post. . . we've all figured out that what you win is directly proportional to what you enter. We sent in three entries and won with one of them. Most of the guys that really clean house send in 8-15 entries and win with about a 1/4 of them, maybe more if they're just exceptional brews. That's kind of the "strategy", flood it with entries and you're bound to get a few ribbons, unless your beer is just gross. Heh, one guy in RCB even won a ribbon with an infected hefeweizen (entered it as an unblended lambic, lol). He was pissed because his infected beer beat his really awesome saison (they combined categories for some stupid reason). Another thing they do is if a beer is just not very good, they'll add some fruit puree and enter it as a fruit beer. RCB won two of three of the ribbons in the fruit/herb beer category, heh.