Well it looks like I will be mailing 4 beers to Austin for NHC. Now to decide which beers to send or if I have to brew some beer on Saturday. I am hoping that I have the small bottles and/or enough left in kegs of the beers that I want to send. Here is what I am thinking:

28A Brett Beer - Tripel with Brett in secondary. I really like this beer. Concerned that the new sour categories will have a ton of entries though.

26C Trappist Tripel - I have a ton of large format bottles, I think I bottled some in small bottles that I have cellared away. If not I may look into a process of moving beer from big bottles to small bottles. No idea how to do that though.

13A Brittish Dark Mild - On tap, not sure how much I have left.

20B American Stout - I have an American Stout that I accidentally used some new German hop variety in (I confused two new hop packs I had). I really like the stout but I am not sure if it is fits the guidelines enough to do well.

20A American Porter - This one is a stretch. I have a BIPA that is more dark malt heavy than IPA-y. After reading the new guidelines I am inclined to call it an American Porter. The beer is good but once again I am not sold on it matching the porter category.

I am bringing the last two beers to our club meeting tonight and I am going to call them a stout and a porter and have some people judge them against the new guidelines and see what they say.

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Posted by LSUGrad00

Member since Dec 2003

2428 posts

Posted on 2/10/16 at 11:58 am to Fratastic423

I ended up with the St Paul, MN region. I'm sending three entries; an IPA, a DIPA, and a Barleywine.

It's 3 days ground shipping to St Paul which isn't horrible, but what does kind of suck is that region isn't judging until over a month after the entries are received (March 9th to April 15th).

I find my IPAs take a week or so to hit their peak. Maybe the delay in judging will work in my favor.