A reminder to all of you brewers -The Treehouse brew club within-club competitions will occur at the club meetings in April, August, and December.
That means that if you think you'll want to enter a beer in the August competition you should be looking at your brewing calendar to make sure your beer is carbonated, appropriately aged, and fully prepared to be ready for tasting/judging by your fellow attendees on August 5th, which will be our regular first-Monday-of-the-month meeting time.
The style parameters for that competition are that we be tasting summertime appropriate beers - - brews that are refreshing and enjoyable in summer weather, so keep that in mind when thinking about your potential submissions. That leaves things a bit open-ended and suggests that it could be inclusive of BJCP styles 1, 2, 3A, 6, 7B, 8, 10A, 14, 15, 16, and 17A, which are light lagers, pilsners, Vienna-style lager, light hybrids (cream ale, Kolsch), California common ale, English pale ales, American pale ale, IPA, German wheat & rye, lighter and/or less alcoholic Belgian & French ales, and Berliner weisse.
As the time approaches for the competition I will be asking people to notify me if they are planning to enter a brew just so I can have a feel for number of entries and the breadth of styles that will be represented.
The December competition will be for holiday ales, spiced ales, winter warmers and such, which are season appropriate at that time of year. The style theme for next April's competition is yet to be determined.
- best regards,
Shawn Crawford, club competition coordinator
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