Cowtown Cup (aka. AHA Big Brew contest) Results

1. KC Dunstan, American IPA, Columbexley IPA
2. Carey Hall, American IPA, Midwest IPA
3. Gautam Bagchi, American IPA, Udderly Hoppy

   Most Creative: Will Shiel, DIPA, Creativity

Did you brew the Big Brew Pale ale recipe at Columbus Brewing Company? Did you brew it on your own or add some darker grains and make it into a Porter or perhaps it got infected and is a Brett forward dry hopped pale ale or some other mystery beer ?? Are you a love-hungry drifter with the drive it takes to be America’s next sweetheart? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you need to enter the Cowtown Cup!

This is a competition open to anyone who started with the Big Brew wort or made your own, SODZ or non-SODZ member. There is no entry fee, and a prize will be awarded to the winning brewer (Best of Show) as well as hardware for second, third and the most creative brew. Entrants will need to bring 2 bottles to Lineage Brewing Company by June 14th.

Please contact me if you have further questions at membership@sodz.org and look for further details on this soon.

Judging

At June Meeting, June 15th 7pm

Drop Off

Lineage Brewing
2971 N. High St.
Columbus, OH 43202

If you didn’t win I would be udderly disappointed.

Hopyard 62 is throwing out the challenge to the mad scientists of the home-brew world. Brew your best IPA and bring it to HY62 on Friday, June 26th at 7:00 PM and we will have a panel of esteemed beer aficionados judge them and crown the winner of the “Holy Hop” trophy. You can bottle it, can it, keg, or growler it. Just bring it!

We will have Cheryl Harrison from Drink Up Columbus, Mike Ford from Grandpop’s Hops, Craig O’Herron from Sideswipe Brewing, and the infamous Tony Tanner giving their ratings on your beer.

Register at http://www.hopyard62.com. If you do not brew please still join us for the festivities as we will be releasing a new Pale Ale done in collaboration with Sideswipe Brewing.

Here is A recipe for Southern English Brown which you can use for the Lucci Cup Challenge. This is not a required recipe just an option. For those unfamiliar with the Lucci Cup, it was started many years ago by our club’s very own Susan Lucci (AKA Frank Barickman) to give him a chance to win… or something like that… anyways, now a days it’s a challange/call to flex your brewing muscle where everyone can compete head to head in a predetermined style. You can brew whatever recipe you want, if you think you have one better, or you can brew the one listed here. Time to step up and brew!

1. Brew any Southern English Brown (here on refereed to as SEB) recipe you like and enter it into the 2015 SODZ BBF as a Southern English Brown.
2. Talk smack about how great your brewing is.
3. Winner will be the beer which wins the stand alone SEB category.

Ok so there it is. Who thinks they have skills?

And here is the promised recipe:
OG 1.041 ABV 3.8% IBU: 17
Yeast: WLP002, Wyeast 1968, or Safale S-04, fermented at 68F

for 6 gal
Hops
60 min: .85 oz East Kent Goldings 5% AA
Grain (all-grain version, mashed at 153F)
6.9 lbs Marris Otter
1 lb crystal 80
10 oz crystal 120
8 oz special roast
6 oz pale chocolate
4 oz carafa special II

Extract option; replace the 6.9 lbs of Marris Otter with 5 lbs English Pale LME or Marris Otter LME

Slainte!
Will Shiel
Vice President
BBF Competition Organizer

The 2015 SODZ British Beerfest is coming up fast, Saturday February 21st, at Seventh Son Brewery, so mark you Calender’s!  We’ll need judges, stewards, and other helpers, its a fun event so please come out and help!  Also don’t forget to brew early enough to enter you British style beers, meads, and ciders.  You can start registering your entries and to volunteer on the competition site http://bbf.sodz.org.

This years Lucci Cup will be SOUTHERN English Brown.  This is the last year it will be in the BJCP guidelines so it’s time to brew it.  I will post the brewing classic styles recipe later for those looking for a reference, as well as more information on the Lucci Cup Challenge for those unfamiliar with it.  Short info, brew the best Southern English Brown you can with any recipe or ingredients you want and enter it into the BBF, good luck.

Congratulations to April Club Only competition winner AJ Zanyk for his “Fizzy Yellow Lager Type Substance” beer. AJ received a $25 gift card from Buckeye Brewcraft His recipe will be in May’s newsletter. The winners are as follows:

1. AJ Zanyk – Bohemian Pilsner – Fizzy Yellow Lager Type Substance
2. Jeff Lewis – German Pilsner – 12 Platos of Suck it!
3. Carey Hall – Munich Helles – Go to Helles

The BBF Competition page is up to date, and the registration site is up and running. You have until February 17th to register, but you probably shouldn’t wait that long to start brewing.