Club competition two — 2011

By Mark Bilbrough, Competition Secretary

With 45 beers, 10 judges, three stewards, one-and-a-half days and a great venue, we judged a fantastic selection of beers for the Canberra Brewers Club Comp 2 on July 2 and 3. Over the course of the weekend, Canberra Brewers finest Scottish and American Ales, Lagers and a couple of RISs were on show.  Club Comp 2 covered: American Pale Ale, American India Pale Ale and Imperial India Pale Ale; Premium American Lager, Munich Helles, Dortmunder Export, German Pilsner, Bohemian Pilsener, Classic American Pilsner; Vienna Lager, Oktoberfest, Munich Dunkel, Schwarzbier, Maibock/Helles Bock, Traditional Bock, Doppelbock; Scottish Light 60/- and Scottish Heavy 70/-; and, last but definitely not least, Russian Imperial Stout.

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Ben (aka Mashhead) works his way through a pale lager.
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The Stagger Inn was the venue and special thanks go out to Stagger for hosting, to the judges for judging: Craig Webber, Stephen Neilsen, Matt Stephenson, Sam Highley, Tom Dixon, Jamie Harwood, Craig Stokes, Megan Watson, Chris Duffy, Ben Harmer; and the stewards for stewarding: John and Matt.
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Jamie (aka pome), sitting at the back, judges Schwarzbier alongside
Craig (aka Stagger, left) and Craig (aka Brewtus, right)
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As a BJCP sanctioned competition, we followed the BJCP rules and guidelines.  The quality of beers was very high – all up we had seven golds, 23 silver and nine bronze awards.  The top two beers (an IPA and Munich Dunkel) tied on 130 points (from a possible 150) – both were excellent beers.
Enough of my rambling here are the award winners:

Flight One: American Pale, India Pale and Imperial India Pale Ale

1. Patrick Baggoley - American IPA - 130 -   Gold 
2. Ben Harmer - American Pale Ale - 117 -   Gold 
3. Mark Overton - American IPA - 113 -   Silver 

• Patrick Baggoley - American Pale Ale - 111 -   Silver 
• Mark Overton - American Pale Ale - 110 -   Silver 
• Mark Overton - American Pale Ale - 86 -   Bronze 
• Chris De La Rue - American Pale Ale - 83 -   Bronze 
• Nigel Leach - American Pale Ale - 82 -   Bronze 
• Adrian Stiffle - American IPA - 82 -   Bronze 
• Chris De La Rue - Imperial IPA - 82 -   Bronze 
• Stewart Wardrop - American Pale Ale - 79 -   Bronze 

Flight Two: Light Lagers and Pilsners

1. Evan Roeterdink - Premium American Lager - 127 -   Gold 
2. Nigel Leach - German Pilsner - 113.5 -   Silver 
3. Matt Hogan - Munich Helles - 107.5 -   Silver 

• Michael O’Rourke - Premium American Lager - 99 -   Silver 
• Patrick Baggoley - Bohemian Pilsener - 98.5 -   Silver 
• Luke Falconer - Classic American Pilsner - 98.5 -   Silver 
• Steve Norrie - Classic American Pilsner - 97.5 -   Silver 
• Keenan Fahy - German Pilsner - 95 -   Silver 
• Steve Norrie - Dortmunder Export - 92.5 -   Silver 

Flight Three: European Amber Lager, Dark Lager and Bock

1. Ben Solly – Munich Dunkel – 130 –   Gold 
2. Luke Falconer – Traditional Bock – 117 –   Gold 
3. Chris De La Rue – Maibock/Helles Bock – 116 –   Gold 

• Chris De La Rue – Oktoberfest – 109 –   Silver 
• Daniel Searson – Vienna Lager – 108 –   Silver 
• Luke Falconer – Schwarzbier (Black Beer) – 107 –   Silver 
• Evan Roeterdink – Schwarzbier (Black Beer) – 106 –   Silver 
• Luke Falconer – Doppelbock – 106 –   Silver 
• Ben Harmer – Munich Dunkel – 105 –   Silver 
• Keenan Fahy – Vienna Lager – 103 –   Silver 
• Megan Watson – Munich Dunkel – 102 –   Silver 

Flight Four: Scottish Ale and Russian Imperial Stout

1. Mike McDonald – Scottish Heavy 70/ - 121 –   Gold 
2. Ben Harmer – Russian Imperial Stout – 109 –   Silver 
3. Nigel Leach – Scottish 60/ - 108 –   Silver 

• Luke Falconer – Russian Imperial Stout – 98 –   Silver 
• Patrick Baggoley – Scottish Heavy 70/ - 92 –   Silver 
• Craig Stokes – Scottish Heavy 70/ - 87 –   Bronze 
• Steve Norrie – Scottish Heavy 70/ - 85 –   Bronze 
• Chris De La Rue – Scottish Heavy 70/ - 84 -   Bronze 

Club Competition 3 will be held late in August, with the ACT Championships planned for the weekend of 23 Sep 11, brought forward one week from that originally announce,  so as to not clash with the long weekend (and to minimise the impact on those people who have a life).

Club Competition 3 will showcase Dark Ales [Scottish 80/, Irish Red Ale, Strong Scotch Ale, American Brown Ale, Northern English Brown Ale], Porters, Wheat Beers, Belgian Strong Ale, Strong Ale, and Others [Fruit Beer, Spiced Beer, Smoke/Wood Aged Beer] … so get brewing.

Medal certificates and feedback sheets will be available at the July club meeting coming up this week.

Cheers and beers,
Billy (Canberra Brewers Competition Secretary)

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Comments

[Bro Comms]

Good stuff.