We want to test your creativity and brewing skills – and have some fun while doing it.

Here’s what the competition is:
Each brewer who participates creates an original recipe for any style of beer, wine or cider (any volume & OG). You can use as much or as little of any malt/ adjunct/ ingredient as you choose – but you MUST use the White Labs WLP500 Trappist Ale Yeast supplied by the ALE Club as the ”secret ingredient” in your recipe. Each brewer is to supply their own ingredients for their brew (except for the yeast of course). 

Brewing starts February 1st. No beers, wines or ciders created before that date can be entered in the Iron Brewer Competition, nor can you use any other yeast than those supplied by the ALE Club. The ALE Club will announce at a later date (soon) when we will distribute the yeast (distribution will probably be at the Annual Meeting in mid-January).  The ALE Club will charge $10.00 for an entry fee for each Brewer that enters the Iron Brewer III competition (sorry for the price increase – yeast prices have gone nuts!).  You will receive TWO tubes of the WLP500 Trappist Ale Yeast for your use.  You may use one or both in your batch – that is up to you.

Complete competition rules can be found here: 2010 Iron Brewer Comp Rules

The entry & bottle ID forms can be found here: 2010 Iron Brewer Entry Form & Bottle ID

Awards/ Tasting & Party

Iron Brewers, ALE Club members and Guests are welcome for the Awards & Tasting Party for the Iron Brews.  Everyone is asked to bring a side dish or appetizer to share for the tasting & party.

The Awards & Tasting will be held Saturday, October 2nd at the Old Bavarian Restaurant Banquet Hall, 3025 College Ave, Appleton. The Awards & Tasting will start after Judging at approximately 3:00 PM. 

Out of town visitors are encouraged to spend Saturday night at the Best Western – Fox River Inn which is adjacent to the Restaurant. The phone number to make reservations at the hotel is: 920-731-4141.

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Congratulations to the 2009 Iron Brewer Best of Show and People’s Choice Winner Steve Olson for his “Raspberry Imperial Stout”.

Please see the complete list of entries & scores here: 2009 Iron Brewer Comp Results

Here are some pictures from the 2009 compitition and tasting:

Congratulations to Ken Stuber for his Best of Show winning American IPA “Hopfather II”.

Complete 2010 All-American Competition Results

Group A – Light/ Pilsner/ Hybrid Beer
1A. Lite American Lager
1B. Standard American Lager
1C. Premium American Lager
2C. Classic American Pilsner
6A. Cream Ale
6B. Blonde Ale
6D. American Wheat or Rye Beer
7B. California Common

Beer Group B – Ale/ Stout/ Strong Beer
10A. American Pale Ale
10B. American Amber Ale
10C. American Brown Ale
13E. American Stout
14B. American IPA
19C. American Barleywine

Group C – Fruit/ Spiced/ Smoked/ Wood-Aged/ Specialty Beer
20. (Fruit Beer)
21A. (Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer)
21B. (Christmas/Winter Specialty Spiced Beer)
22B. (Other Smoked Beer)
22C. (Wood-Aged Beer)
23. (Specialty Beer)

2009 Fall N’ Down Fermentation Festival Results
October 24th, 2009
Titletown Brewing Company, Green Bay, WI

Fruit Wines
1st Place-Julie Lawson, Fond du Lac, WI SOB
“Very Cherry Wine” Fruit Wine-Semi-Sweet; Sour Cherries
2nd Place- Stephanie Riley, Clintonville, WI
“Blueberry” Berry Wine-Sweet; Blueberries
3rd Place- Frank Faubel, Menasha, WI ALE
“Apple Wine” Fruit Wine-Semi-Sweet; Gala, McIntosh, & Macoun Apples

Other Meads & Ciders
1st Place- Byron Burrier, Steve Olson, & Steve Mattheeussen
Neenah, WI ALE
“English Cider” 27B English Cider
2nd Place- Diana & Jeff Kane, Thiensville, WI Barons
“Cranberry Ginger” 26C Open Category Mead with Cranberries,
Wildflower Honey, & Ginger
3rd Place- Byron Burrier, Steve Olson, & Steve Mattheeussen
Neenah, WI ALE
“Griffin Cider” 27B English Cider

Melomels
1st Place- Julie Lawson, Fond du Lace, WI SOB
“Apple Cyser” 25A Cyser with Wildflower Honey
2nd Place- Jason Walters, Madison, WI MHTG
“Ski-Hi Sweet Cyser” 25A Cyser
3rd Place- Edward Mathis, Beecher, WI TCF
“Cemetery Grapes” 25B Pyment with Killer Bee Honey &
Cabernet Sauvignon Grapes

Vinifera
1st Place- Edward Mathis, Beecher, WI TCF
“Kyan Gump’s Sicilian Nero D’Avola Shiraz” Red Vinifera- Shiraz
2nd Place- Paul Chambers, Green Bay, WI Rackers
“Ralph’s Zinfandel” Red Vinifera- Zinfandel with Oak
3rd Place- Edward Mathis, Beecher, WI TCF
“The Czarina’s Chocolate Raspberry Port”
Specialty Wine- Chocolate Raspberry Port

BEST OF SHOW- MEADS AND CIDERS
Byron Burrier, Steve Olson, & Steve Mattheeussen, Neenah, WI ALE
“English Cider” 27B English Cider

BEST OF SHOW- WINES
Julie Lawson, Fond du Lac, WI SOB
“Very Cherry Wine” Fruit Wine-Semi-Sweet; Sour Cherries

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2nd Annual Fall N’ Down Fermentation Festival

A Wine, Mead, & Cider Competition

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

Hosted by:

The ALE Club, The Green Bay Rackers, The Society of Oshkosh Brewers, and The Tri-County Fermenters

Judging:

9:00 am; Titletown Brewing Company; Green Bay, WI

Rules:

This competition will be a BJCP sanctioned competition this year. Entry fee is $5 for each of your each of your first four entries. 5th and additional entries are free.

Members of TCF, ALEs, Rackers, and SOBs will get their second entry free.

For more info see:   Tri-County Fermenters

The Tri-County Fermenters are looking for people to also judge and steward for this event.  If interested contact Ed Mathis