Coming This Week....

Our first home brew competition.  It turns out there's plenty I didn't know surrounding the festivities next weekend.  I first read about the competition on DCBeer.com and immediately thought about how great it'd be to enter a contest.  We had been talking two days prior about entering some sort of competition and see how our beers fared against other, more experienced brewers.  So this Sam Adams sponsored DC homebrew event pops up in my Google Reader and I immediately enter.  The only drawback? We only brew 5 gallons at a time, so going to the final round means sacrificing almost all of our beer.  We decided that a 3 bottle sacrifice for judging was worth the price of admission and, if we were to make it to the finals, the honor would be worth the rest of the beer.

As the competition date has crept up, I found out that it's co-sponsored by DC101 and they are promoting it on air!  They mention VIP passes, so I don't know if people have to buy tickets to gain access to the event at Old Glory next Saturday afternoon.  I also don't know what would happen if only one of us made the finals (I entered Brains Explosion and Dan entered Honey Brains).  I hope that all three of us would be able to represent our beer. 

Apparently there are about 40 entries into the competition...I wish I could try out a bunch of them!  I'm dying to know how we compare and what else is out there right now.  Hopefully we'll have an update sometime in the middle of the week regarding the competition.