First Competition Results

After eagerly checking my physical mailbox like a little kid waiting for something fun for the past two weeks, the score sheets from the first competition Jeremy and I entered our beer into showed up in my gmail inbox Monday night.

Original on Flickr here

I was bummed that we didn't place in any of the categories we entered, but after reading through the sheets I was pretty pleased with the feedback we received. We definitely need to dial in the carbonation process when using the BeerGun and to pay even more attention to getting proper attenuation on our beers.

The Beer Judge Certification Program (www.bjcp.org) uses the following scoring guidelines:
Outstanding : 45 - 50
Excellent : 38 - 44
Very Good : 30 - 37
Good : 21 - 29
Fair : 14 - 20
Flawed : 0 - 13

Here are the scores we ended up with:

Octoberfest (03B) : 27
Russian Imperial Stout #1 (13F) : 24
Russian Imperial Stout #2 (13F) : 26
Citra IPA (14B) : 37 (Booyah!)
Extract Double IPA : 25
Extract Mexican Hot Chocolate Stout : 21

All in all, I think we did reasonably well for a first competition. We're going to sit down with each beer and the score sheet to review the feedback with the actual beers over the next couple of weeks. (More posts to follow...)