Stone AHA Rally March 10th

Have a link or is that just from memory?

 

a stout is NOT a fruit beer... it just has some cherries added in. i think theyre saying they dont want you to submit a lambic

 

i had a link when i posted that. i'm on a diff computer now. just google for it. i was there last year, with a couple friends who entered into the rally last year. they didn't win, but they kind of cried foul when a beer with cherries won it. if we didn't have such a vivid memory of pointing it out directly to greg, i wouldn't have remembered it. greg shrugged his shoulders and said "oh well, no big deal" if you're curious.

 

a lambic would be a bacterially soured beer. nothing to do with fruit. it was most likely a cya rule so they didn't end up having to somehow secure say, like a ton of passionfruit during an offseason.

 

I did search for it. All I could find was this years rules.

FYI with the fruit taken out of the rules completely this year......there was only one entry

 

Heard you took 4th place, my man! Nice work Scottie-boy! I hope you brewed some extra for your homies

 

I was smart enough to brew 10 gallons of it just so I could still have a full keg after the comp

 

Thanks man

 

I liked your beer! What hops were in that?

 

Congrats Star. Didn't get a chance to taste yours.....but good job on 4th!

 

You're welcome. You finished one ahead of me; jerk ... I finished 5th.

 

Pacific Hallertau, Nelson, Galaxy (Boil, 1st Dry hop), Amarillo, Citra (2nd Dry hop in Keg)

 

Nice! I knew there had to be some hops from down under in that beer.

 

The rules did state no fruit beers and separately no beers with wild yeast. Last year, someone on BA pointed out that the cherries in the stout was in violation of the rules. Greg responded to some effect of "oops".

With that said I do not think they were too worried about the fruit as mush as wild bugs in the beer. Plus what Johndoe said about trying to get expensive/rare/out of season fruit.


P.S. what beer won? I did not see it mentioned above

 

Ken Schmidt won again, with a mint imperial stout.

 

All I know about him is A) he brews great beer and B) he loves using ingredients I don't like (coconut and mint). If he wins again with mustard or olives I am calling it a conspiracy

 

he was also walking around with a small flip-top growler of a killer peanut-chocolate beer that tasted like dry-roast peanuts and chocolate.

 

Hey, if anyone is interested in the recipe for my beer here it is

 

Damn.....wish I wouldn't have grabbed a seat up at the bar to grab a bite to eat!

 

Yeah, I got a sample of that. He was calling it "Snickers In A Bottle". I liked it better than the beer he won with but both are great (same base beer for both).