I have been brewing my own beer for two years. Next month with be the first time I have entered it in to a contest.
I was hoping to gather some insite to homebrew contest.
Thanks Cooty

Yo-ho, Cooty. jjl and I both homebrew. He's really hardcore, while I am an extract man. If I ever go to Scotland, I'm going to mooch off him and also a friend who works at a distillery.

Oregon, huh. Grow your own hops?

Botnst
Not yet with the hops. I dont have time to invest in. There is a small hop farm north of Eugene. The two beer stores intown buy from them. I also enjoy making hard cider and mead.
I would like to try wine someday when I get more of a taste for it.
There is a microbrew fest next month that I am gonna enter. They have a homebrew contest.
I have two enters a pumpkin ale and a cider. I try to use the freshest ingredents I can. The cider I press myself its really easy as far a brewing goes no heating or boiling wort. The hardest part for me is trying to make it sweeter.
The pumpkin ale turned out really well but I dont like pumpkin so I didnt like it.
I had some honest friends try it and they all liked it. Amazing since there is usually someone that doesnt like what I brewed. Must be the brewmasters disapproval with it. I used a fresh pumpkin 12lbs half roasted half freshly cubed.
I love brewing. It is a great hobby.
So do you bottle or have a draft system. I still bottle. I am slowly parting together a corny keg system. I am waiting for a fridge.
Anyway I need to get back to the 106 bottles I need to fill and crown.
Thanks
Cooty

I was a home brewer and also made some wine. Wine making made me hyper critical of commercial wines. I rarely drink anymore and lost interest in making my own. I still have crates of Grolsh flip tops and will probably resume the craft at some time in the future.

Never entered a brewing contest but entered a few other contests. They are mostly social gatherings, don't get too hung-up on the judging.

me too.

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I started back my homebrew. I use the John Bull beer. I really don't care too much for the ale.

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I used to bottle but I had a chance to by six soda kegs for $20 so now I have kegs. I sold three of the kegs for, you guessed it, $20. My goal is to have a stout or porter and two ales because that's about the ratio I drink them. Right now I have a scotch ale that is the second best beer I've brewed according to my critic (Mrs Botnst). The best was a German Alt that really was delicious.

I haven't been to Oregon in thirty years but my freinds tell me the microbreweries turn-out the best beer in North America--except for my sister-in-law, who's Canadian and cliams that title for some beers from her region: Edmonton. When I'm around her, you can bet that I agree with her. I may not be too bright when it comes to women, but I know how to suck-up to a sister-in-law.