NHC Results.

banana, huh?

 

Welp. The American IPA is expected to have a relatively neutral yeast character. Just sayin.

 

I haven't gotten mine yet. I didn't place on any of my 4 though.

 

Amen brother . . . I got screwed without getting kissed: Submitted a Rauchbier that had gold'ed the month before in a Miami comp and went very far in the BoS. Then NHC mislabelled my entry . . . the judges drank an IPA instead of a killer Rauchy. I did not submit an IPA and when I bottled from the keg there is no mistaking an IPA from a Rauchbier. Some equally screwed IPA-submitter got his entry graded as a Rauchbier.

What can you do? But by the time you get the scoresheet the evidence is poured down the drain. My score: 21 (and only because they thought it was a really good IPA)

 

What about the phenols? They both ticked it off in aroma. It shouldn't have any. Never used the yeast, is that where it's coming from?

 

What was your recipe?

I have only submitted/participated in one contest, but it looks like your judges were confused. For Overall impression, the 1st gives you "4s" across the board and then scores a 6. The 2nd gives you "2s" across the board and then gives you a 6. They both think it was "hoppy" and then the first wants "more bitterness".

It would be interesting to drink the beer that the two of them liked/voted 1st

 

I'll be kegging/dryhopping my Troispical pale ale this weekend. I have to say, it is more saison-like than pale ale like. I'm not surprised that an IPA brewed with Trois got judged not to style.

 

You prompted me to retaste it and I'm not sure what I was thinking. It seems much more neutral to me now than it seemed a few days ago.

 

Give me just over 2 years to open, and a few more to redefine IPAs using 100% Brett, then enter it again (w/ a real Brett Strain) and watch the medals roll in.

 

Got a 2nd with a blackberry sour, no score sheet yet, though one of the judges "thinks" he remembers giving it a 40.

 

Hard to imagine that this did not taste like an IPA given the grains and hops. The biggest knock seems to be "esters" and that could have been the the hops used vs actual esters. My guess is they were both looking for something more like Stone's Ruination for an IPA.

 

Maybe just the bad luck of being at the end of a tasting flight or whatever you call it? Maybe their taste buds were blown and they were picking up subtleties that aren't there unless you've been drinking a ton of random IPAs.

 

Sometimes, being at the end of a flight can be an advantage...but usually not for an IPA

 

This plus must have Simcoe and a little malt for color. SRM 7-8.