Blue Ridge Open Competition. Blue ribbon bitches!

Mon Sep 11, 2006 12:11 pm

WHOOO-HOOOO!!! 1rst place in category 15a for my weizen. This is my 3rd competition. I've not seen my scoresheets yet, but I'll post the results when I get them.

Check out flight 12 here.

After listening to the Pope show on hefes I dropped the ferm temp of my weizens down to 62 degrees like our hero does, and well, what do ya know. Thank again Jamil.

Here's the recipe:

5 lbs wheat malt
5 lbs. Pilsen malt
153 degree single infusion mash, batch sparged
1/2 oz hallertau (60 min)

WLP300 hefewezein 30 hour 1000ml starter on stir plate
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Mon Sep 11, 2006 4:42 pm

I think I tasted a sample of that, rich. Congrats on a fine brew! :) There were lots of entries in that category this year, you beat out quite a few brewers!

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Wed Sep 13, 2006 4:01 am

Fine, just fine..

Great result Rich!
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Wed Sep 13, 2006 9:05 am

Great job Rich!

And thanks for the recipe! Finally some award winning simplicity. I may have to try this as my first weizen...
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Wed Sep 13, 2006 11:41 am

Ecellent work Rich! Congrats brotha.

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Thu Sep 14, 2006 2:12 pm

Final score was 36.
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