Puget Sound Pro-Am Accepting Entries & Judges: GABF Pro-Am!

[homebrewbaron]

Got three bottles of a great tasting homebrew around? The Puget Sound Pro-Am is accepting entries (three 10-12 oz bottles, $6/entry) at the mail-in/drop location (Larry’s Brewing Supply) from now until May 26th so start sending in your entries (entries can be registered in advance through a link on the competition website at http://www.bewbc.org/pro-am). The other entry points (Diamond Knot Brewery, Bob’s Homebrew Supply, Cellar Homebrew Supply, Fish Brewery, Olympic Brewing Supply, Snipes Mountain Brewery, and the Beer Essentials) are accepting entries from May 11th through May 26th. PLEASE MAKE SURE TO USE THE SPECIAL RECIPE ENTRY FORM AVAILABLE ON THE WEBSITE!

The Puget Sound Pro-Am is an AHA/BJCP sanctioned competition aimed at providing award winning homebrew recipes to be brewed by Puget Sound breweries with the goal of capturing a medal from the Great American Beer Festival’s Pro-Am Competition. As many as THIRTEEN breweries will be selecting their favorite homebrew beers from the best of show round to scale up and brew on their systems. Winning beers of AHA members may be sent on to the GABF for a shot at national glory! Non-AHA members can still enter the competition and win other awards and prizes and the breweries not submitting to the GABF will not be constrained to picking an AHA member! Out of state entries are more than welcome (last year’s GABF gold medal winning beer came from the PSPA from an out of state entrant)!

Judging will be held on May 30th at Larry’s Brewing Supply in Kent, Washington (if you are interested in judging, stewarding, or helping with event execution, contact Mark Emiley at markemiley@earthlink.net or register online at the website). Check the website for updates on contest details. To have the best shot of having your beer brewed, you need to be an AHA member by the time of the competition, so join today! If you had a beer that didn’t make it to the second round of the NHC, send them on in for a second opinion and a chance for an awesome opportunity! Invite your friends to join the AHA and submit beers as well (all beers will be judged and ranked regardless of AHA membership). Good luck!

Mark Emiley
PSPA Competition Organizer

[tavish2]

Just got an email from Mark. Looks like this comp has 300 entries!! WooHoo! And my entries account for 2.33% of the total .

Judging is tomorrow morning and pro breweries (11 total breweries are participating) start picking what they want to brew in a week's time.

[BDawg]

I went down tonight with about 6 others and we prejudged a few flights to get a start on things. I was pretty impressed with the quality tonight.

(Oh, and Tav- Mark has us paired up to judge a flight together tomorrow, btw)

[ColdBraue]

That was cool to meet you two and to do my first judging! You have to get those pics posted soon!
Cheers
Greg

[BDawg]

Great meeting you too, ColdBrau!
What a great event. Always good to see HomebrewBaron and MBrown again too! Great job, Mark!



(Tav, that one that was our favorite held all the way and took 1st place BOS, so its great to know we got it right

[Bokonon]

(Tav, that one that was our favorite held all the way and took 1st place BOS, so its great to know we got it right

So you like my beer then?

Kidding, I have no idea how I did. Can't wait to see the results posted today

[BDawg]

Check your email for your brewer's number-

The results are up here:
http://www.bewbc.org/images/Beer_Relate ... reened.pdf

[tavish2]

Well, its nice to know how I did, but I cant wait till the "Public" version is out so I know who all won awards and for what. I do have some suspisions though