Averagely Restricted Homebrew Competition - Official Rules

This competition is open to all BAs.

Deadline and Information Required
Entries must be received by 30 November, 2017. Judging date is TBD, but soon after 30 November.
Send two completely unmarked bottles of your beer along with the following information:

Real Name (let me know if it's okay to use it when announcing the winner, if you win)
Beer Advocate Screen Name
Declared Style
List of All Ingredients Used (actual recipe (amounts/process) optional, but will be required if you win)

Styles
Any BJCP 2015 Beer Style is acceptable, except for the following styles:
American IPA
American Stout
Specialty IPA (which is where NEIPAs go, according to Gordon S.)
Saison
Strong Bitter (aka ESB)

Ingredients Allowed
Entries must be brewed only with any/all of the following ingredients (from the first 5 Averagely Perfect projects), plus one Optional Additional Ingredient at the discretion of the brewer:

Fermentables
Belgian Pilsner Malt
Carapils
Chocolate Malt
Crystal 40
Crystal 80
English Crystal Malt (~55L)
English Dark Crystal (~80L)
Flaked Oats
Flaked Wheat
Honey Malt
Invert Sugar #2
Maris Otter
Munich Malt
Roasted Barley
Toasted Oatmeal
Two-Row Brewer's Malt
Vienna Malt
Wheat Malt
Extra Light DME
Golden Light DME
Pilsen Light DME
Maris Otter LME

Hops
Cascade
Centennial
Chinook
Citra
EKG
Galaxy
Hallertau
Magnum
Mosaic
Northdown
Saaz
Simcoe
Target
Willamette

Yeast
US-05
WLP001
WLP004
WLP565
WLP650
Wyeast 1056
Wyeast 1084
Wyeast 1318
Wyeast 1469
Wyeast 3724

Water (with any natural or built mineral profile)
Acids for pH adjustment

Location
Entries should be sent to me, VikeMan. Send me a BA private message for the address.

Judging
I will organize and steward, and will therefore not judge. Judging will be done similarly to a BJCP Best of Show Round. The criteria for choosing a winner will be which beer is subjectively "the best" by panel consensus. But because there is no preliminary round or scoring, judges will be advised to disqualify any entry that (by consensus) is grossly not to style. Any judging notes (remember, this is BoS-like judging...no score sheets per se) will be transcribed and provided (upon request) to entrants via BA private message.

Glory
The winner will be announced on the forum and the recipe will be posted on the Homebrew Recipes sub-forum. (Names of non-winners will not be announced, though participants can of course choose to talk about their own entries if they want.)

The prize will be bragging rights.

Disclaimer: This competition is by and for home brewers who are BA members, but is not an official Beer Advocate event and is not necessarily endorsed by Beer Advocate.

 

I'll have no problems finding 3 willing and available craft beer lovers/homebrewers in my area to judge, but I'd prefer to have BJCP judges if I can get them, since the "BoS round" style judging will loosely use BJCP style guidelines. But bottom line: I'll go with what I can get.

If you are a BJCP judge and can support an early December date in the Harrisburg/West Shore area, please let me know via private message.

 

To clarify... the competition is open to all BAs, except VikeMan and any judges who volunteer.

 

It can be anything at all. But only one.

Either way. You can use as few or as many ingredients as you want from the list. Plus one not from the list.

 

My thought is that two out of the 5 recipes were IPAs, so it's less of a challenge to make an IPA from the ingredient list. But if enough have a different opinion (and soon!), I'll consider opening it up to non-NEIPA specialty IPAs.

 

Another thought...please don't declare your actual style here on the board before the judging happens. I don't want any potential judges being influenced by what they might read here.

 

I would consider that one ingredient, as long as it comes that way commercially. Same for something like Falconer's Flight hops. But no "self blended" ingredients.

 

Well, yes. Or more likely, I will post the recipe (in standard BA recipe sub-forum format), along with some details of how the competition worked, a link to these original rules, etc. But yes, the winner would have to at least send the recipe details to me so that could happen.

Much of the point of this exercise is the recipe (choices) from among the allowed ingredients. And others will, understandably, want to brew up the winner.

Any particular reason you wouldn't want to share the recipe?