MCAB Qualifying Events and Styles
By Mark Tumarkin
Well, since we've been getting more entries and generating more excitement with our in-club BOTY contest, and our brewers' entries did so well at the BBBO, I thought I'd pass along the following information about MCAB V. The basic idea (in case your not familiar with MCAB- see website for more info) is that you enter in a qualifying event, if you win you can send your brew on to the finals, or brew a new batch of the same style. The judges are the best in the nation. This is THE brewing competition.
The Masters Championship of Amateur Brewing (MCAB) is pleased to announce the 2002 Qualifying Events for MCAB V:
1. Boston Homebrew Competition, hosted by the Boston Wort Processors
(www.wort.org)
2. Kansas City Bier Meisters Competition, hosted
by the Kansas City Bier Meisters (www.kcbiermeisters.org).
3. Reggale and Dredhop, hosted by Hop Barley and the
Alers (Boulder, Colorado) (http://hopbarley.org/dredhop/ )
4. World Cup of Beer (www.bayareamashers.org), hosted by the Bay Area
Mashers (California)
5. Bluebonnet Brew Off (http://welcome.to/bluebonnet) -- hosted by
the Knights of the Brown Bottle (Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas).
6. Drunk Monk Challenge, hosted by the Urban Knaves of Grain
http://www.sgu.net/ukg/dmc/ (Chicago area).
7. Sunshine Challenge, hosted by the Central Florida Home Brewers
(www.cfhb.org) (Orlando, Florida)
8. Spirit of Free Beer, hosted by BURP
(http://burp.org/index.html) (Virginia/Maryland area)
9. BUZZ-Off, hosted by BUZZ (http://hbd.org/buzz/) Philadelphia area).
10. Edmonton Homebrew Competition, hosted by the Edmonton
Homebrewers Guild (http://www.ehg.ca/) (Canada).
11. Dixie Cup, hosted by the Foam Rangers
(www.foamrangers.com) (Houston, Texas).
12. Novembeerfest, hosted by the Brews Brothers (Seattle, WA),
http://www.brewsbrothers.org/nbf/nbf_top.htm
13. Happy Holiday Homebrew Competition, hosted by the St.
Louis Brews (www.stlbrews.org) (St. Louis area).
As before, the MCAB Qualifying Styles will be BJCP Styles 1-20:
1. American Lager
2. European Pale Lager
3. Light Ale
4. Bitter & English Pale Ale
5. Scottish Ales
6. American Pale Ales
7. IPA
8. Koelsch & Altbier
9. German Amber Lager
10. Brown Ale
11. English and Scottish Strong Ale
12. Barleywine and Imperial Stout
13. European Dark lager
14. Bock
15. Porter
16. Stout
17. Wheat Beer
18. Strong Belgian Ale
19. Belgian and French Ale
20. Lambic and Belgian Sour Ale
All substyles within these categories will be eligible. In cases where a Qualifying Events offers ribbon categories for individual BJCP substyles within a Qualifying Style (e.g., APA and California Common), the Qualifying Event will select between the winners of those substyles to determine the MCAB Qualifier.
And, of course, keep watching the MCAB website (hbd.org/mcab) for details on MCAB IV, which will be held in Cleveland, April 12-13, 2002.
All the best -- Louis K. Bonham lkbonham@hbd.org
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