This year I entered my first beer competition – the London And South East Craft Brewing Competition 2015. I don’t think I’d have normally entered a beer if I wasn’t organising the Brighton Homebrew group, but as it was, I’m very glad I did.
The comp was held in early April. £10 to enter 1 entry and £4 every entry after that. For this you get a glass, to go up on the day, and a BJCP feedback sheet on your beer.
Considering the amount of beer you can sample – over 250 beers were available on the day – this represents excellent value. You get some feedback – which for me wasn’t so important – but interesting nonetheless. I’d highly recommend any homebrewer to go up for the day, even if you’re not sure about your beer!
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- The comp was held near to the Millennium Dome
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- At the new Trumans Brewery
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- Sharing out a beer
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- Seats outside, very civilised
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- Lee the comp organiser
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- Stack o kegs. Truman’s not ours!
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- Saison/Belgian table
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- One of the category tables
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- Eagerly listening in
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- Announcing the winner
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- Sampling some Truman’s beer
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- Head brewer from Trumans talking about his beer
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- The first and not the last casualty of the day
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- Big bag of hops left over for us
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- Clean up time
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- Later casualty
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- sour beer entry scoresheet #1
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- sour beer entry scoresheet #2
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- saison beer entry scoresheet #1
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- saison beer entry scoresheet #2
