Congratulations to all winners!

2009 Cascade Brewers Cup Winner Results ~ 193 Entries/18 Flights/4 States

Best of Show
1 Will Fredin & Matt Moser Blackout Lager Schwartzbier Granite Falls, Wa
2 James Brischke Bauerntrampl Hefeweizen Weizen/Weissbier Lake Stevens, Wa
3 Mike & Steve Brown Red Rocket Irish Red Ale Lynnwood, Wa

Flight Name Place Brewers Name Beer Name Category (sub-style) City/State

Pilsner and Light Lager
1 Dan Hansen Hill Billy Pils Bohemian Pilsner Granite Falls, Wa
2 James Golovich Leelas Lager Munich Helles Richland, Wa
3 Mark Tanner Dortmunder Dortmunder Export Stanwood, Wa

Euro Lager
1 Will Fredin & Matt Moser Blackout Lager Schwartzbier Granite Falls, Wa
2 Greg Fleehart No Control Dunkle Munich Dunkel Seattle, Wa
3 Mike Hausenfluck La Negra Schwartzbier Covington, Wa

Bock
1 Jeff Rea Be Right Bock Traditional Bock Bellevue, Wa
2 Ted Hausotter Helles Bock Maibock/Helles Bock Baker City, Oregon
3 Randy Scorby The Dobienator Doppelbock Baker City, Oregon

Light/Amber Hybrid
1 Joel Engel Kosmic Kolsch Kolsch Woodinville, Wa
Tie 2 James Brischke Fairly common California Common Beer Lake Stevens, Wa
Tie 2 Greg Fleehart Brotherly Love California Common Beer Seattle, Wa
Honorable Mention H Dean Priebe All-Star Cream Ale Cream Ale Leavenworth, Wa
Honorable Mention H James Golovich Shes not really a blonde, Ale Blond Ale Richland, Wa

German/Wheat and Rye
1 James Brischke Bauerntrampl Hefeweizen Weizen/Weissbier Lake Stevens, Wa
2 Darron Tavish Sullivan Roggenbier Roggenbier (German Rye Beer) Bothell, Wa
3 Mark Tanner Bavarian Weizen Weizen/Weissbier Stanwood, Wa

Porter
1 David Argento Blood of the Barley Baltic Porter Seattle, Wa
2 Mike & Steve Brown Night and Day Robust Porter Lynnwood, Wa
3 Tim Hayner Robustier Robust Porter Bellevue, Wa

Amber and Brown Ale
1 Brian Thatcher Amber American Amber Ale Kingston, Wa
2 Ted Hausotter Mostly Good American Brown Ale Baker City, Oregon
3 Scot Oliver Dusty Brown Mild Mild Bothell, Wa

English Pale Ale
1 Craig Seeger Demons Extra Special Biter Extra Special/Strong Bitter Seattle, Wa
2 Randy Scorby She didnt like beer, so I bitter…… Extra Special/Strong Bitter Baker City, Oregon
3 Howard Allegan Bayview ESB Extra Special/Strong Bitter Manhatten Beach, Ca

Mead and Cider
1 David Spratt Brownhall Brewing Orange Blossom Honey Wheat Braggot Fall City, Wa
2 Geoffrey Wan Cold Steel Sunshine Strong Cider New England Cider Othello, Wa
Tie 3 Tim Hayner Braggot Braggot Bellevue, Wa
Tie 3 Dean Priebe Chelan County Cider Fruit Cider Leavenworth, Wa
Honorable Mention H Dean Priebe Wenatchee River Cider Other Specialty Cider or Perry Leavenworth, Wa

Scottish and Irish Ale
1 Mike & Steve Brown Red Rocket Irish Red Ale Lynnwood, Wa
2 Geoffrey Wan Cold Steel Sunshine Strong Scotch Ale Strong Scotch Ale Othello, Wa
3 Jeff Rea Hop Scotch Strong Scotch Ale Bellevue, Wa

Stout
1 Joel Engel Double Black Stout Foreign Extra Stout Woodinville, Wa
2 Jesse Thomsen Anorak Stout Dry Stout Seattle, Wa
3 Jody Chinn Voltaire Russian Imperial Stout Redmond, Wa

American Pale Ale
1 Jeb Sorom Penguin Pale Ale American Pale Ale Wenatchee, Wa
2 Will Fredin Pastoral Pale Ale American Pale Ale Granite Falls, Wa
3 Joel Engel NW Pale-Face Ale American Pale Ale Woodinville, Wa

Belgian/French/Sour
1 David Hayes High Maintenance BPA Belgian Pale Ale Mercer Island, Wa
2 Mike Hausenfluck Saison Extreme Belgian Specialty Ale Covington, Wa
3 Darron Tavish Sullivan Belgian Pale Ale Belgian Pale Ale Bothell, Wa

SHV/Specialty
1 Mike & Steve Brown Full Nelson Specialty Beer Lynnwood, Wa
2 Randy Scorby Curts Winter Warmer Christmas/Winter Specialty Spiced Beer Baker City, Oregon
3 Jeremy Sharp Lucile Specialty Beer Seattle, Wa

Strong/Smoked/Wood-Aged
1 Will Fredin & Matt Moser Brook Smoked Weizenbock Other Smoked Beer Granite Falls, Wa
2 Jeremy Sharp Independence Ale American Barleywine Seattle, Wa
3 James McDermet Jacked Stout Wood-Aged Beer Seattle, Wa

Belgian Blonde/Golden/Tripel
1 Craig Myer Belgian Tripel Lundy Belgian Tripel Olympia, Wa
2 Mark Tanner Tripel Belgian Tripel Stanwood, Wa
3 Craig Seeger Ashs Tripel Belgian Tripel Seattle, Wa

Belgian Dubbel/Dark Strong
1 Craig Seeger Kats Dark Strong Belgian Dark Strong Ale Seattle, Wa
2 Dean Priebe Mussels in Brussels Belgian Dark Strong Ale Leavenworth, Wa
3 Patrick Middledorf Brother Patrick strong ale Belgian Dark Strong Ale Everett, Wa

India Pale Ale
1 Jeff Rea Chinook IPA American IPA Bellevue, Wa
2 Mike Hatten Summit IPA American IPA Naches, Wa
3 Bob Zormeir Piney the Middle American IPA Kirkland,Wa

I’m 2008’s Washington Homebrewer of the Year.  Congratulations to everyone else in the running and the other awards that were announced that day. I didn’t take any pictures at the event, but I know others did so if I can find some of them I’ll get them posted here at some point.

Here is the official WAHA article about it

I can’t get many of these beers at home, so if you have one you want me to check the dregs for bugs, I’ll gladly send along my address so you can send one to me

Non Filtered/Pasteurized Sour Beers

• Cantillon - Spontaneous fermentation.  So probably anything you can think of
• New Belgium La Folie - Saccharomyces, Brettanomyces, Lactobacillus, Pediococcus
• Orval - S. cerevisiae, Brettanoymces
• Russian River Beatification - “Saccharomyces, Brettanomyces, Lactobacillus, Pediococcus & other wild yeast & bacteria”
• Russian River Consecration - Saccharomyces, Brettanomyces, Lactobacillus, Pediococcus
• Russian River Temptation - Saccharomyces, Brettanomyces
• Russian River Sanctification - 100% Brettanomyces
• Russian River Supplication - “three strains of Brettanomyces, Lactobacillus, Pediococcus”

Filtered/Pasteurized Sour Beers

• Deschutes The Dissident
• Duchess de Bourgogne

http://www.mousetrap.net/mouse/brewing/dwyeast.html
http://brewery.org/brewery/library/SterileDW1096.html

Right now I just have some Bells Two Hearted yeast and some WLP410 in this form, but I’ll eventually get more and more of my yeast in this form so I don’t have to keep culturing on slants. I made a few extra tubes of the Bells yeast that I’ll use to check viability over time. In a few weeks I’ll try to plate out some just to see.

I’ll probably keep strains that are tough to get on slants for a while until I’m sure that this is working out for me, but other strains that I can get easily I’ll probably stop putting on slants.
Update: I was too excited to leave it alone so a few days ago I dipped my loop into one of the tubes and streaked it out on a plate.  Two days later I was happy to see growth.  Sounds like this is going to be a handy technique.

I sent over 9 beers to be judged.  Amazingly all of them but 1 (2 entries, I entered my fresh hop IPA twice) placed.  My Helles took BOS and also took 3rd in BOS entered as a Blonde ale.  Can’t wait to see the scoresheets on the blonde to see how the judges thought it matched the style.

I really need to rebrew the Helles to see if I’m able to reproduce such an awesome beer.  In total it’s won 3 BOS and 2 3rd place in BOS round.

The complete results are here

This should qualify me for 3 entries into MCAB . If I’m reading the rules correctly I’ll be able to enter something in Light Lager, Light Hybrid, and Smoke and Wood Aged.

Thanks to Tim Hayner and The Impaling Alers for organizing the event, and also to all the judges.

Congrats to the GABF Pro-Am winners!

I did get 2 silver medals from the Keg Ran Out Club’s World Brewers Forum

2nd Annual KROC World Brewers Forum Homebrew Competition
IPA Challenge Results

Best of Show
Mike Bordick, English IPA, “Axe EIPA”

Honorable Mention
Remi Bonnart, American IPA, “Hoppinator IPA”

Specialy/Regional (6)
1st- Scott Jackson, “Menestheus”, Imperial Rye IPA
2nd- James Golovich, “Fresh Hop”, American IPA with fresh hops
3rd- Remi Bonnart, “Amarillo Saison IPA”, Belgian IPA

Imperial IPA (5)
1st- Eric & Kate Carpenter, “Grand Slam”, Imperial IPA
2nd- Michael Bade, “Kneewalker”, Imperial IPA
3rd- Sandy & Stuart West, “Old Hoppy”, Imperial IPA

American IPA (12)
1st- Remi Bonnart, “Hoppinator IPA”, American IPA
2nd- James Golovich, “Eris IPA”, American IPA
3rd- Mike Bordick, “Axe AIPA”, American IPA

English IPA (3)
1st- Mike Bordick, “Axe EIPA”, English IPA
2nd- Tom Gardner, “English IPA”, English IPA
3rd- Bill Briggs, “#8 IPA”, English IIPA

I’m happy to announce that my Munich Helles took BOS. Jim Brischke’s California Common took 1st runner up and Mark Emiley’s Belgian Blond took 2nd runner up

There were 122 entries in the beer competition this year, which I hear is almost double what there was last year.

Congratulations to all the winners and as always thanks to the organizers and judges. If the full results don’t get posted somewhere online and I’m able to get them I’ll post them up here.

Update: The full winners list is posted at the WAHA ESF page

My reply from Wyeast was:

You can count on this strain making a return appearance. If we get
enough of a call for it, it may even be available year round, so spread
the word!

So everyone needs to contact them to request its return. I’d love to see it available year round.

This was a Pale ale challenge where 5 homebrewed pale ales and 5 commercial examples were judged by everyone present.

The commercial examples were:

• Oskar Blues’ Dale’s Pale Ale
• Elysian’s Loser Pale Ale
• Powerhouse’s Pale Ale
• Bear Republic’s XP Pale Ale
• Hale’s Pale Ale

The homebrewers were:

• James Golovich (me)
• Darron Sullivan
• Jim Brischke
• Carey Peltz
• Jim Trimble

I’m excited to say that my entry was picked as the winner, a close tie for 2nd place was Jim Brischke and Carey Peltz, and fourth was a pale ale from Elysian, Loser Pale.

I was able to take home a very nice etched growler as the award, but the best reward was meeting and talking with Tim Patty the brewer from Powerhouse, Jake the manager of Powerhouse, Mick from Click Distributing, and all the other homebrewers that were present.

I finally made it out to Diamond Knot to brew my Munich Helles recipe that won at the Puget Sound Pro-Am. I tried to help as much as possible but Pat Ringe of Diamond Knot did most of the real work, it is his system after all.

I’ve uploaded some photos I took to this Photo Gallery

We brewed up 15bbl of this batch. Before that day the biggest one of my recipes was 12 gal, so this was quite a step up for me.

As of Monday it was chugging along nicely, so hopefully everything works out good and we bring home the gold at the Pro-Am comp at GABF this year.

I’ll post an update when the release date is known.

Props to Pat and the rest of the Diamond Knot crew on such a sweet setup.