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Piedmont Cup 2011 Results

Oct 22

Posted by Craft Beer Collective in American Brewmaster, Beer News, Big Boss, home brew, Homebrew, NC Beer News, raleigh | Comments off

The Piedmont Cup Homebrew competition was organized by John Federal and American Brewmasters Homebrew shop. The judging and award ceremonies for 2011 were held at Big Boss Brewing Company in Raleigh on Saturday, October 22nd. There were 266 entries and 175 registered participants, judges, and stewards.

Piedmont Cup

Here are the results from that competition:

Best Of Show – The Piedmont Brewer’s Cup

Place Brewer(s) Entry Name Club
1st Matt Everngam Fontaine’s Pale Ale  
2nd James Lafferty Treffal Dark Beer Alchemists Of Coastal Carolina (bac2)
3rd Mark Caron, Michael McAdoo Altbier Method Brewery

Results – The Piedmont Brewer’s Cup

Table 1: Ipa (23 entries)

Place Brewer(s) Entry Name Club
1st Ben Murdock High N’ Dry Ipa  
2nd Bryan Fisher Citrocity Seminar Brewing
3rd Doug Griner Thunder Lizard Ipa Grabass

Table 2: Fruit Beer (10 entries)

Place Brewer(s) Entry Name Club
1st Paul Auclair Double Don’s Watermelon Lager  
2nd James Lafferty Rango Wheat Beer Alchemists Of Coastal Carolina (bac2)
3rd Thomas Kahl Summer Apricot Ale Beer Alchemists Of Coastal Carolina

Table 3: Spice/herb/vegatable (13 entries)

Place Brewer(s) Entry Name Club
1st Zach Woodward Panama Red  
2nd Edward Brown Lemon Sunrise  
3rd Justin McConkey Santa’s Stash 2011  

Table 4: Specialty (20 entries)

Place Brewer(s) Entry Name Club
1st Philip Tomkinson P/bipa  
2nd Eric Darnell American Wheat Wine  
3rd Mark Pavlik India Brown Ale  
4th Erica Mcadoo Old Towne Brown  

Table 5: German Wheat And Rye Beer (10 entries)

Place Brewer(s) Entry Name Club
1st Eric Darnell Weizen Up  
2nd John Rybicki Fraulin Olga Low Country Malts
3rd Jonathan Kissinger German Vaction Coastside

Table 6: Saison (15 entries)

Place Brewer(s) Entry Name Club
1st Philip Tomkinson Mariah  
2nd Mitch Woodward Saison  
3rd James McHugh Cowboy Saison CARBOY – Cary Apex Raleigh Brewers of Yore

Table 7: Witbier, Belgian Pale, Biere De Garde (9 entries)

Place Brewer(s) Entry Name Club
1st Troy Sacquety Jackknife Troubadour Special Operations Brewers (s.o.b.)
2nd Justin McConkey Normandie  
3rd Eric Moritz Witbier N/a

Table 8: American Pale Ale (13 entries)

Place Brewer(s) Entry Name Club
1st Matt Everngam Fontaine’s Pale Ale  
2nd Michael Gloden Timberline Rye Ale  
3rd John Szymankiewicz Tasty’s APA The Brewing Network

Table 9: Foreign Export, American Stout, Imperial Stout (11 entries)

Place Brewer(s) Entry Name Club
1st Patrick Tierney Sputnik  
2nd Clint Lawrence Turkey Curse  
3rd Bryan Williams Chocolate Stout  

Table 10: Dry, Sweet, Oatmeal Stout (7 entries)

Place Brewer(s) Entry Name Club
1st Bryan Fisher Das Oat Seminar Brewing
2nd Darrell Luster Stout  
3rd Eric Himburg Aule’s Water None

Table 11: Porter (16 entries)

Place Brewer(s) Entry Name Club
1st Zachary Coleman Hey Porter! The Brewing Network
2nd Peter Reed Runners Advance Balktic Porter  
3rd Brian Weightman Dad’s A Wanker Porter  

Table 12: American Amber & Brown Ale (16 entries)

Place Brewer(s) Entry Name Club
1st Jim Looney Pecan Brown  
2nd Paul Goodell American Amber  
3rd John Federal Face-blaster Ale American Brewmaster

Table 13: Scottish/irish Ale & English Pale Ale (13 entries)

Place Brewer(s) Entry Name Club
1st Eric Darnell For Peat’s Sake  
2nd Loren Standley Stan’s Esb Beer Alchemists of Coastal Carolina
3rd George Forte Death Or Glory CARBOY

Table 14: Dark Lager & Bock (12 entries)

Place Brewer(s) Entry Name Club
1st Scott Satterthwaite Bock It To Me Worts Of Wisdom
2nd Jarrad Wilkinson Dorkel Helm CARBOY
3rd John Szymankiewicz Schwarzbier The Brewing Network
4th Eric Allain Mad Scientist’s Maibock Malt

Table 15: European Amber Lager & Amber Hybrid (8 entries)

Place Brewer(s) Entry Name Club
1st Mark Caron Altbier Method Brewery
2nd John Pickens Flintlock  
3rd Eric Moritz Oktoberfest N/a

Table 16: Light Lager, Pilsner, Cream & Blonde Ale (12 entries)

Place Brewer(s) Entry Name Club
2nd Chris Bible Blonde Ambition  
3rd Tony Stiller Brewhouse Blonde  

Table 17: Kolsch & American Wheat Or Rye Beer (13 entries)

Place Brewer(s) Entry Name Club
1st Paul Goodell The Panty Dropper  
2nd Steve Bruns Earthquake Kolsch  
3rd John Mattheis Rookie Rye Seminar Brewing

Table 18: English Brown Ale (10 entries)

Place Brewer(s) Entry Name Club
1st Troy Dailey Yeliad  
2nd Jason Austin English Brown Ale  
3rd Brian Reasor Bluff Mtn Brown Ale  

Table 19: Belgian Strong Ale (14 entries)

Place Brewer(s) Entry Name Club
1st James Lafferty Treffal Dark Beer Alchemists Of Coastal Carolina (bac2)
2nd Eric Allain Mad Scientist’s Belgian Blonde Malt
3rd Clay Plummer Dubbel Trouble Bacc

Table 20: Strong Ale & Smoke-flavored And Wood-aged Beer (14 entries)

Place Brewer(s) Entry Name Club
1st Mitch Woodward Wood Aged Robust Porter  
2nd John Rybicki Ol’ P Low Country Malts
3rd Clay Plummer Old English Bacc

Table 21: Belgian Specialty Ale (7 entries)

Place Brewer(s) Entry Name Club
1st Eric Himburg Iluvatar Rested None
2nd Justin McConkey Smoky Mountain Saison  
3rd Keil Jansen Belgian Black Ale Trub

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AUGUST NC BEER NEWS

Aug 31

Posted by Craft Beer Collective in Beer News, beer store, Bull City Burger & Brewery, Craggie, Durham, fullsteam, home brew, Mother Earth, Nantahala, NC Beer News, triangle, Video | Comments off

Here are some of the better stories to make their way around the North Carolina beer world. Asheville Scene in WSJ Asheville, a Blue Ridge Mountain town of 75,000, has 10 breweries, with two on the way. That can’t compare with the 40 in Portland, Ore., but it stacks up to other beer havens like Milwaukee and Boulder, Colo., which both have fewer than a dozen. “Asheville is definitely on the map and well recognized in the craft-brewing industry,” says Paul Gatza, director of the Brewers Association in Boulder. Full story on: online.wsj.com Nantahala Brewing Company Nantahala brewer Chris Collier explains his story and why North Carolina is a great place for beer in the south: “Basically, the reason I went to North Carolina is threefold: You can self-distribute, we can have a taproom and sell off-premise, and as you grow your business, you can write your contract anyway you want,” Collier said. Collier estimates North Carolina has more breweries and brewpubs than the rest of its Southern neighbors combined. “That is not coincidence,” he said. Brewers pay expensive excise taxes — about $25 per keg — on their beer, but it is a price that allows them to operate their businesses with relative freedom READ THE WHOLE STORY HERE Nantahala Brewing CONGRATS TO Jason McCammon The Hendersonville, N.C., resident, who will turn 30 in a couple of weeks, now has something else to celebrate besides the milestone birthday. His award-winning home-brew — a German-style dark lager called Monkey’s Uncle Munich Dunkel — has been released commercially by Olde Hickory Brewery and is available at a few Asheville-area bars and restaurants. In late April, McCammon’s beer won a Best of Show gold medal at the Olde Hickory Pro-Am home-brew competition, beating out 130 other entries from the Southeast. COMPLETE STORY FOOTHILLS EXPANSION Video from WXII shows Foothills staffers at brewpub and new production facility in Winston Salem. http://www.wxii12.com/r-video/28781866/detail.html Brewmaster Jamie Bartholomaus said the brewery has purchased a building off Stratford Road to start bottling its beer. The expansion allows production to move from a 7,000-square-foot space to a 48,000 square-foot-space. The current facility can produce two 22 ounce bottles each minute. The new facility, which will be operational within the next six weeks, will boost production to about 100 bottles per minutes, owners said. MOTHER EARTH TOUR Micro Beer Reviews posted this video of the Mother Earth Brewery: BELT LINE BREW TOURS Crossdrinker.com posted this video of Beltline Brew tour outside the beltline tour of Durham, featuring Bull City Burger, Fullsteam & Triangle brewing. TASTY BEVERAGE OPENS Sean Pratt of Cary, graduated from Cary High School in 2002 and then went to NCSU, graduating in 2007. While studying in Sweden he fell in love with craft and specialty beers. He partnered up with Johnny Belflower (Rocky Mount Senior High School and Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida). After years of planning they have opened a new shop called Tasty Beverage Company at 327 W. Davie St. Suite 106, in Raleigh in the historic Warehouse District of Downtown Raleigh. carycitizen.com © 2011 Craft Beer Collective / Away Team Media Bringing you the craft and culture of beer in North Carolina --> Raleigh, Durham, Asheville, Winston-Salem, Greensboro, Wilmington, NC and beyond Contact us at dave (at) away (dash) team (dot) com
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Gambrinus Cup Winners

Jun 10

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Two N.C. home brewers won top honors last week at the 21st annual US Open Homebrew Competition, an amateur craft beer brewing competition held at Olde Mecklenburg Brewery in Charlotte.

Tom Nolan of Louisville, N.C., won Best of Show for his Wood Aged Beer, and Todd Fisher of Greensboro won the Gambrinus Cup for his entry in the Dry & Sweet Stout category. As Gambrinus Cup winner, Fisher will have his recipe brewed commercially by Foothills Brewing Company of Winston-Salem and offered to the public at 2011 Carolina Renaissance Festival this fall.

The competition featured more than 400 entries from across the United States, including entries from California, Minnesota and Utah

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The Piedmont Brewer’s Cup

Sep 30

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American Brew Master in Raleigh

American Brew Master in Raleigh

American Brewmaster has announced details of the The Piedmont Brewer’s Cup homebrew competition.

Here is the email that went out earlier today:

Greetings Fellow Homebrewers,

It has been a long time coming but American Brewmaster is proud to officially announce our first annual homebrew competition: The Piedmont Brewer’s Cup! The competition is an AHA/BJCP-sanctioned competition and will cover all beer styles with the exception of fruit and sour beers. Awards will be given to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place winners of each category and there will be special prizes for the Best of Show winners.

The 1st Place Best of Show winner will have their recipe recreated into an extract and all-grain kit to be sold at the shop. They will also receive a portion of the profit made from each kit for 1 full year along with their name engraved on the Brewer’s Cup, and a free entry coupon to enter into the 2011 National Homebrew Competition. A portion of the kit sales will also be donated to Pints for Prostates as well.

The competition is open to 5 states: NC, SC, GA, VA, & TN. All brewers will receive feedback from qualified beer judges so this competition is a good way to get good, honest feedback on your recipes and brewing skill.

Register your entries here.

There will be a $6 entry fee along with a 6 entry limit. However, if you have purchased at least $20 or more for your recipe from American Brewmaster the fee will be waived. You will need to present a receipt with your entry as proof of purchase. Please make note on your receipt of what you used in your beer for ease of processing your entry.

Online registration will be open from October 1st to November 5th and all physical entries must be received no later than 5pm on Saturday, November 6th. American Brewmaster is the only drop-off location at this time. Please visit our website for updates on drop-off locations. If shipping your entries please ship them to this address:

American Brewmaster
Attn: PBC Competition
3021-5 Stony Brook Dr.
Raleigh, NC 27604

You can find more information about the competition here.

BJCP judges are also currently being recruited and you can register for that opportunity here.

We look forward to tasting your well-crafted beers. Good luck to you all! If you have any questions please contact abrew@americanbrewmaster.com and say Attn: PBC question.

John Federal
Competition Organizer

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Oktoberfest and Beer Festivals that Cover the State

Sep 8

Posted by ncbeer in beer, Beer of the month, Big Boss, Brewgrass, Carolina Beer & Bevearge, Carolina Brewery, Charlotte, Eastern NC, Events, festival, Festivals, home brew, The Triangle | No Comments

It’s fall – and that means two things: Oktoberfest and Beer Festivals.

In the next few weeks look for Oktoberfest beer releases from The Carolina Brewery (already out!), Rock Bottom, and Liberty as well as the Cottonwood Pumpkin Ale release from Carolina Beer and Harvest Time from Big Boss. It’s a great month to enjoy good North Carolina Beer!

What’s more? In the next month, no matter where you are in North Carolina, you’ve got a beer festival nearby.

First up, on September 18th, is Brewgrass in Asheville. In their words: Each year in the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina, we gather over 40 American breweries to showcase more than 120 different beers. We add a great lineup of national and regional bluegrass musicians that, in the past, has included such notables as Cadillac Sky, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Dry Branch Fire Squad, J.D. Crowe, The Osborne Brothers, Norman Blake, Tony Trischka, Jim Lauderdale, Valerie Smith, Tony Furtado, Yonder Mountain String Band, and Sons Of Ralph. We also feature a variety of area food vendors and plenty of water. Hope you got your tickets on the weekend that they went on sale, though, because that’s when they sold out.

Next, on September 25th, is the 12th Annual Charlotte Oktoberfest which promises

  • Live entertainment on the big stage at the North end of the stadium.
  • The chance to put your skills to the test on games like table tennis, foosball, corn hole and many others in the Creative Loafing Beerlympic Village at the South end of the stadium.
  • Food vendors serving some of the tastiest brats, hot dogs, pretzels, and more.

    • As well as a collectible 5-oz. Charlotte Oktoberfest Tasting Glass, and of samples from over 350 of the finest craft brewed beers in the Southeast and from around the world.

    Tickets are still available.

    Next up, on October 9th in Durham, is the All About Beer World Beer Festival: Durham which is being held, this year, at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park. The World Beer Festival is one of the best festivals in the Southeast – don’t miss it. The beer lineup should be posted soon, keep an eye out for it!

    Tickets are on sale through the Durham Bulls Box Office.

    Finally, the coup de grace, on October 16th at the Greenfield Lake Amphitheater in Wilmington, is the Lighthouse Beer Festival.

    The Lighthouse Beer Festival, in its ninth year, brings over 70 craft breweries from around the world to Wilmington, NC. This year, the festival will be held at Greenfield Lake Amphitheater to accommodate the growing enthusiasm from local (and national) beer lovers. Admission is $30/adv $40/day of which includes a collectible festival glass for tasting from the over 300 different beers available from 1pm-5pm on Saturday October 16th. Live performances from Acoustic Syndicate and local Wilmington bands will occupy the amphitheater’s stage during the festival. Proceeds from the event go to The Carousel Center; a 501c charity that aids abused and neglected youth. A free shuttle service is provided to help festival-goers get home safely.

    Get your tickets here.

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