AL Brewer's Cup 2024

 

Scott Joines and the Carboy Junkies of Hoover, AL run one smooth well attentive to detail comp. I can see now why there's such a concerted effort for comps of this size and larger to get judges (that's an entry in and of itself). They had 3 tasting sessions over 2 days and results were posted that night. Unfortunately, Wallaby Water (pronounced Wa-duh) and No Taters didn't fair very well. A whopping 28 for both. There were 3 judges on the IRA flight, which was appreciated since there were 12 or so in it.  They wanted it to be sweeter and a little darker. For my 12B, the pear and apple esters were picked up but they wanted more effervescence. It's only the 2^nd year for this comp and it was already up to 200 (from 111 last year), I'll keep trying.