Lancaster Iron Brewer 2016
Out of 178 Entries:
BJCP Best of Show
1st Mark Witzel: Uptown Funk (Fruit Lambic)
2nd Ryan Foltz & Sam Son: Penny Pinchin’ Ale (American Pale Ale)
3rd Keith Hartman & Mike Frederick: Megalodon (English Barleywine)
Brewers Choice Award – Columbia Kettle Works
Chris Harvey: Mango IPA
Brewers Choice Award – Spring House Brewery
Mike & Amber Degrace: Lichtenhainer (sour, smoked German wheat beer)
Brewers Choice Award – Mad Chef Craft Brewery
Rob Knighton: Head Stash (Schwarzbier)
Flight Winners
Lighten Up! – Light Lagers & Ales
1st Michael Bossert: Kolsch
2nd Brooks Hemauer: Wasser de Rheins (Kolsch)
3rd Paul Futer: Anchors Aweigh! (California Common)
Dark European Lagers
1st Rob Knighton: Head Stash (Schwarzbier)
2nd Mark Garber: Bock to the Future (Bock)
3rd Mark Witzel: Doppelganger (Doppelbock)
Mash It Up!
(Weissbier, weizenbock, brown, english porter, irish red, amber)
1st Rob Knighton: Hosen Sauce (Weissbier)
2nd Jim Miller: Just Amber (amber ale)
3rd Chris Stolz: Professor John’s Brown Ale (American Brown ale)
Irish Stout/Sweet Stout
1st Brooks & Ellie Edman: Lucy’s Irish Stout
2nd Glenn Fehnel: Oatmeal Stout
3rd Harold Ford & Mike Reaser: Fluffy Unicorns (sweet stout with marshmellow)
Strong Ales – (old ale, scottish wee heavy, barleywine)
1st Keith Hartman & Mike Frederick: Megalodon (english barleywine)
2nd Mike & Amber Degrace: Weight (wee heavy)
Pale Ales
1st Ryan Foltz & Sam Son: Penny Pinchin’ Ale
2nd Derek Markel: Tropical Implants (blonde ale)
3rd Brooks Hemauer: Pale Ale
American Porters & Stouts
1st Tim Paul: Black Lab Porter (american porter)
2nd Craig Fahnestock & Mike Baer: RIS-6 (imperial stout)
3rd Karl Larson: Catherine (american stout)
American IPA
1st Michael Domin: Brick’s Folly
2nd Derek Wolf: SoOoOo Juicy
3rd Ryan Foltz & Sam Son: Going Broke IPA
Specialty IPA
1st Craig Fahnestock & Mike Baer: Session IPA
2nd Dean Pierce: Mosaic Rage (Red IPA)
3rd Keith Hartman & Isaiah Hegedus: Blackened is the End (Session Black IPA)
Double IPA
1st Chris Harvey: Citra Mosaic DIPA
2nd Matt Topper: Moral Dilemma
3rd Tim Gundlach: Scratch #84
Sours & Wild Ales
1st Mark Witzel: Uptown Funk (Raspberry Lambic)
2nd Rob Knighton: Higher Standard (Berliner Weisse)
3rd Tim Ranck: Saison Brett (saison with brett)
Belgian Ales – (pale, witbier, saison)
1st Dean Pierce: Super [Honey] Saison
2nd Glenn Fehnel: Saison
3rd Jim Daugherty: Belgian Pale Ale
Strong Belgians – (golden, dubbel, trippel, quad)
1st Jacob Hornick: Oculus Diaboli (golden strong)
2nd Mike Szafran: Loopy Prayers (trippel)
3rd Matt Byrd: Fist of Dissent (trippel)
Fruit Beers
1st Chris Harvey: Mango IPA
2nd Brooks & Ellie Edman: Cranberry Sauce berliner weisse, cranberry, raspberry, cinnamon
3rd Harold Ford & Mike Reaser: Helen
Breakfast & Dessert – (Veg. – vanilla, cacao nibs, coffee)
1st Nick Shadel: Peanut Butter Porter
2nd Michael Domin: Midnight Express
3rd Andy Good: Birthday Stout
Spice/Vegetable Beer – (Pumpkin, spices)
1st Brooks Hemauer: Dilled
2nd Kristen Richards: Identity Crisis Pumpkin Nut Brown Ale
3rd Emily Landis: Holy Mole
Wood Beers
1st Joe Fleischman: Oaked Belgian Strong Ale
2nd Jeff Thompson: Repeat Offender
3rd Ben Peters: Imperial Che
Experimental/Mixed Style – (alternate grain & fermentable, mixed style)
1st Mike & Amber Degrace: Lichtenhainer (sour, smoked German wheat beer)
2nd Derrick Bransby: Honey Kolsch
3rd Kyle Farkas: Chocolate Rye Porter
Three Brewers Choice Awards this year!
$200 Gift Cards to Lancaster Homebrew
Get ready for our fourth annual Lancaster Iron Brewer Homebrew Competition hosted by Lancaster Homebrew! This is a BJCP certified event and entries will be due by March 1, 2016. There will be BJCP Best of Show Ribbons and Three Brewers Choice Awards which will chosen by the head brewer of each of our sponsor breweries.
***** Brewers Choice will be chosen from Best of Show finalists. Each brewery will choose a beer based on creativity, marketability and if it can be reasonably reproduced at the brewery. If your beer is chosen, you will get to brew your beer with the brewery that chose it and it will be placed on tap at that brewery on a date chosen by the brewery. Please note that each brewery will make a reasonable representation of the winner chosen with the brewing ingredients they have available ( in some cases ingredient substitutions must be made). Also note that the BJCP Best of Show Winners may or may not be the same beers chosen for Brewers Choice. So get brewing and be a part of the fun!
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PRIZES:
Brewers Choice Winners:
Chosen by COLUMBIA KETTLE WORKS
*Your beer brewed and on tap at Columbia Kettle Works; a $200 Gift Card to Lancaster Homebrew; five gallons of your beer (fill your sixtel or five growler refills)
Chosen by SPRING HOUSE BREWING COMPANY
*Your beer brewed and on tap at Spring House Brewing Company; a $200 Gift Card to Lancaster Homebrew; five gallons of your beer (fill your sixtel or five growler refills)
Chosen by MAD CHEF CRAFT BREWING
*Your beer brewed and on tap at Mad Chef Craft Brewing; a $200 Gift Card to Lancaster Homebrew; five gallons of your beer (fill your sixtel or five growler refills)
BJCP Awards:
Best of Show (First, Second and Third place ribbons)
Flight Winners (First, Second and Third place ribbons)
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RULES:
- Entries are due at Lancaster Homebrew by March 1, 2016. (1920Lincoln Hwy E, Lancaster, PA 17602)
- Entry Fee: $7.00 cash payment per entry. You must submit two plain 12oz amber bottles with no labels on them except for a BJCP bottle label rubber banded to it. NO tape. NO flip top bottles
- Download pdf: BJCP_BottleID
- You may enter more than one entry.
- You must fill out and submit an Entry Form for each beer you enter! You must have beer categories listed!
- Download pdf: Lancaster Iron Brewer Entry Form
- We will be using the NEW 2015 BJCP Guidelines
- 2015_BJCP Guidelines_Beer
- This is a beer event only, sorry, no meads or ciders
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JUDGING:
Judging will take place on Saturday, March 5, 2016 at Spring House Brewing Company at 209 Hazel St, Lancaster. There will be a morning and afternoon session. We will be asking judges to be there at 8:30am. Morning session will start at 9am. Lunch break will be from noon to 1pm. We will provide lunch, along with snacks and water. For judges who would also like to enter a few beers into the competition, we ask that you get the entry forms in by March 1st and then you can bring your beers and money with you the morning of the competition.
If you are a BJCP judge or a provisional judge and would like to participate, please fill out a judges registration form and email it to info@lancasterhomebrew.com. We will also need some judges who are non BJCP to help fill in a few gaps. If you would like to be a helping hand (steward) for the event, please fill out a judges form and make note that you would like to be a steward.
We encourage people to come out and watch the judging and enjoy some Spring House brews! The judging will take place back behind the bar, so you will not be able to mingle with the judges and we ask that you refrain from any other contact so we can keep the winners a surprise until the Announcement Party!
Download judges form: SCP_JudgeRegistration_Waiver.pdf
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ANNOUNCEMENT PARTY:
Come out on Tuesday, March 8th to Columbia Kettle Works (40N 3rd Street, Columbia, Pa) where we will announce the winners! We will start announcing winners sometime around 7pm. We encourage folks to come out early and have dinner! Plus there will be live music starting at 6pm- Two Pints Shy of course!!
Time: 6 to 9pm
BJCP Flight Winners:
First, second and third place winners will be announced and awarded ribbons
BJCP Best of Show:
First Place Ribbon
Second Place Ribbon
Third Place Ribbon
Brewers Choice Winners:
Chosen by Columbia Kettle Works plus $200 Gift Card to Lancaster Homebrew
Chosen by Spring House Brewing Company plus $200 Gift Card to Lancaster Homebrew
Chosen by Mad Chef Craft Brewing plus $200 Gift Card to Lancaster Homebrew