The annual Upstate New York Homebrewers Association is hosting their annual home brewing competition next week (March 27th), and Rock Your World Brewing is fully represented.  After the competition results are in, this post will be updated with scores.  This is what we’ve entered:

Joel entered

• Pumpkin Ale (cat. 21a, base recipe was an American Amber)

Tony entered

• Oatmeal Porter (cat 12b, Robust Porter)
• Cream Ale (cat 6a, Cream Ale)
• Pale Ale  (Cat 10a, American Pale Ale)
• Wedding Stout  (Cat 13c, Oatmeal Stout)
• Java Porter (made with Finger Lakes Coffee Roasters coffee)  (Cat 12b, Robust Porter)
• Dampfbier (California Common) (Cat 7b, California Common Beer)

Jeremy entered:

• Gentlemen Prefer a Blonde (Cat 6b, American Blonde Ale) Score was 33.5 out of 50.  Placed 1st in category out of 16 entries
• Failte (cat 13a, Dry Stout)…see prior post for brewday writeup  Score was 38 / 50.  Placed 2nd in category out of  17 entries
• Romanoff Family Portrait (Cat 13f, Russian Imperial Stout)  Score was 26.5 / 50 with 10 entries in category
• Potato Famine Ale (Cat 9d, Irish Red Ale)  Scored a 32.5 / 50 with 17 entries in category
• Perle-y Gates (Cat 14b, American IPA)..see prior post for brewday writeup  Scored a basement burning 21.6 / 50 with 21 entries in category
• Dandelion Mead (Cat 26c, Open category mead, Mead with dandelion must added) Scored a 27.5 / 50 with 12 entries in category
• Gruit (Cat 23, Specialty beer, scotch ale brewed with yarrow, mugwort, thistle, nettle, lavender and wormwood) Scored a 28.67 / 50 with 12 entries in category
• Olde Saggy Ass 2008 (Cat 19b, English Barleywine)  Scored a 30 / 50 with 12 entries in category
• Olde Sour Puss 2009 (Cat 19a, Old Ale… old ale with Bret C. yeast added)  Scored a 31.5 / 50 with 12 entries in category
• And entered for a visiting brewer friend, Al Drozdowski:
• The Big Brown Buzz (Cat 13f, Russian Imperial Stout)

What we will most likely do, is any of these beers that were entered in the same style as another RYWBC brewer will become, or be tweaked to become a standard recipe in the future. Depending on what, if any place or win, we might decide to collaborate and enter the State Fair competition.  I know that the UNYHA competition is the only one I planned to submit to this year (which is why I went the “go big or go home approach with 9 entries), however, if I/we have a good showing it will not take much persuading to get me to enter the State Fair.