I posted this over in the homebrewing section as well, but if any of you have Canadian brewery contacts, please pass this along to them. Cheers, Dave. The Winnipeg Brew Bombers and Half Pints Brewing Company are pleased to present Manitoba’s first, BJCP/AHA sanctioned, Annual Pro/Am beer competition. This event is a friendly competition between professional and amateur brewers in the name of craft beer. Amateur and Professional Brewers are invited to send their finest crafted beer to the competition to be judged by professional, certified BJCP judges. Along with first, second and third professional winners, and gold, silver and bronze amateur winners, a Professional or Amateur will be named winner for each category. At the end of the competition, Best of Show winners will be announced and an overall winner will be named. Will the Professional brewers triumph over the Amateurs? Can the home brewers pull off an upset? The Best of Show Winner gets to brew 1,000 litres of the winning batch at the Half Pints Brewery. This special release will be available at the brewery and on tap at select pubs in Winnipeg. (Travel costs are not included.) - See more at: http://winnipegbrewbombers.ca/half-pints-proam-challenge/
Actually, that's a major misconception... The snowbank actually acts as an insulator with all the trapped air around the kettle (like an igloo!) and doesn't let it cool as quickly. When I use the great outdoors to cool the kettle, I just leave it outside in a breeze at -20F and it takes a few hours. That said our water is like ice, so my CFC creates a wicked cold break!
The results are up at : http://winnipegbrewbombers.ca/2013-half-pints-pro-am-brew-challenge-results/ We had a great time this week judging the over 410+ beers, the organizers received national press coverage on CTV Newsnet: http://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg...pits-amateurs-against-professionals-1.1566095 stories in the local paper: http://metronews.ca/news/winnipeg/8...-homebrew-in-first-time-winnipeg-beer-battle/ And the comments sheets will be mailed back to the brewers by the end of this week. The Best Of Show winning American Pale Ale with Spruce Tips will be brewed by Dean Kelly of Saskatoon at Half Pints sometime after his tree gives shoots in the spring. We're going to try to be co-ordinated enough so a few pubs across Canada get at least one key keg of the beer for everyone to try.
