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2011 ALEiens "IRON" Brewer Competition

CONGRATULATIONS to MATT MYERS!

2011 IRON Brewer champion!

His American Style Black India Ale

scored 168 points and took the honors

by only 1 point.

Thanks judges for your time and donations!

Thanks to everyone who participated

and who lent a hand during the year long competition.

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Permalink Reply by Dave Covey on April 23, 2011 at 11:41pm

Thanks.

Permalink Reply by Jeff Louella on April 23, 2011 at 9:35pm

Ed and I just brewed our Iron Irish Red. Matt, Gianpiero, Mike, & Johnny. It's ON! :) Felt good. Was my first beer since the twins were born 7 months ago. Felt good.

Permalink Reply by Jeff Louella on April 25, 2011 at 9:15pm

Brewed my Irish Red on Saturday afternoon today the fermentation stopped. I thought something was wrong so I took a reading. I am at final gravity literally 48 hours after I pitched the yeast. I know I grow up healthy yeast, but now I wonder if I grew it up too well. :) I guess we will see.

Permalink Reply by johnny b on April 25, 2011 at 10:02pm

Hey Jeff - you were supposed to use the Irish Ale yeast - not the buggy stuff on steroids!

Permalink Reply by Jeff Louella on April 25, 2011 at 10:56pm

I guess I got the Fighting Irish Strain.

Permalink Reply by Michael Ryan Lawrence on April 25, 2011 at 11:06pm

Well played ;)

Permalink Reply by Eivind Sandstrand on April 26, 2011 at 3:01am

Please, no ND references here! :)

Permalink Reply by Jeff Louella on July 27, 2011 at 10:33am

Iron Brewer 2011 Update

We had some last minute shifting of how we were going to Judge happen this month. I apologize for any inconvenience that this caused any of the brewers. This was my fault. I promise next round will be a hell of a lot smoother.

I wanted to thank John Yeomans for stepping up and helping organize the last minute details. It helped a ton.

For everyone who wasn’t there last night, here were the results.

Moving on were:

Tom & Frank
Blaise & Tom
Matt Myers
John Yeomans

The next round are two styles. Irish Dry Stout (Tom, Frank vs Blaise, Tom) and Brown Porter (Matt M vs John Y). The yeasts you can use are:

White Labs / Wyeast Irish Ale (or Dry Equivalent)
White Labs California V Ale / Wyeast American Ale II (or Dry Equivalent)

Congrats everyone.

Permalink Reply by Jeff Louella on July 28, 2011 at 7:56am

Johnny,

I will look into the email issues. I know you need to be "Friends" on the site to be able to send emails back and forth. I will look into the other issues.

Jeff

Permalink Reply by Matt Myers on September 20, 2011 at 8:26pm