We had company in town this weekend, so I didn’t get to attend the entire BURP meeting this month, but I did manage to get my entry in for the “Extract” competition. One year ago I entered my first brewing competition, the BURP Extract competition of 2006, and I took home the blue ribbon for my Hop Dog IPA. Since then, I’ve moved on to all grain brewing, but I still make a few extract beers here and there. I’m still a firm believer that you can make great beer either way. Maybe in a future post I’ll do a writeup on brewing extract beer tips. Anyway, when I found out the extract competition would again be held in April, I decided to brew another Fat Boy special IPA. The recipe I designed called for a lot of hops, 7.5 ounces and three varieties to be exact. It’s a hophead’s dream, except it also has a really nice balance, which I contribute to the use of some honey malt. Anyway, back to the meeting. I received the ribbon for my 3rd place Scottish 80 from the Feb. Scottish ales competition and to my surprise, won the Best of Show (BOS) for this year’s extract competition. Go me! So if you like a good IPA, this is one you probably don’t want to miss. It might be gone before we are!
DT
well done fatstuff. i wanna try that IPA.
So proud of the big winner
and the beer IS awesome!
Very cool man, now that I have a basement/workspace I want to try and do some brewing myself. Congrats on the big win’s on your stuff, hopefully I’ll get a chance to meet ya IRl and try some in the far future!
Not sure if/what you use to do your labeling but I ran across this today.
http://beerbuilder.brewtopia.com.au/
Cheers!
rob